So the RIAA must be spinning in their desk chairs… Amie Street Music is giving away music from independent artists as well as some well known artists for free. Well, for the first couple of downloaders free, after the song has received a certain number of download requests the price to download goes up to as much as 98 cents based on the song’s popularity. Its a pretty cool idea that if it works could be really cool. The artists receive about 70% of the price while the site takes a little to help pay its bills.

According to the site:

Our pricing model encourages music lovers to discover and buy new music. If a song is free, it hasn’t been discovered by a wider audience. If a song is 98 cents, it’s already a must-hear hit. Recommend the great new songs you find to your friends and earn credit for buying even more great music!

The idea seems to be based on the new methods of news ranking (whats hot) and could be a big hit with music fans (especially those who like obscure music that will never be popular…). The downloads have no DRM on them and can be played/downloaded/shared to anything that can play mp3s which is a plus and it seems to be a cross platform service as well, another plus.

For more information or to see if they have your favorite artists (don’t expect anything too main stream at the moment…) visit Amie Street Music.

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