The folks at Napster have been busy lately, earlier this month they took on the entire subscriber base of Virgin Digital's US business and now it's been announced that AOL (parent company of Weblogs inc who run this site) is jettisoning its entire music subscription business and handing it off to Napster.
AOL purchased Music Now just under two years ago but music subscription business is clearly not paying off for players such as AOL and Virgin. Music Now had in the vicinity of 350,000 subscribers which will provide a welcome boost for Napster which had been struggling to gain critical mass. The addition of Virgin digital and Music Now's subscribers will be a welcome shot in the arm for Napster which had itself up until recently been the subject of sale rumors.
