YouTube has been able to capitalize on music videos that have been uploaded to the website in a couple of ways. Advertising is the primary source of revenue and the other way was by providing affiliate links to AmazonMP3 and iTunes. Today when I was watching this music video was the first time I noticed a link to the Android Market music store. In the design, it looks like AmazonMP3 and iTunes have been placed in on the next line using a
tag. Google launched Google Music last month with EMI, Sony, and Universal on-board.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has launched a music store called Google Music today to make buying tunes for your Android devices more seamless. Google also launched a service called Music Manager that allows you to upload 20,000 songs to Google Music Manager for free. Google Music Manager can grab music automatically from your iTunes and/or Windows Media Player playlists.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is planning to launch a music store this quarter. The source of this news was the owner of an independent record label that sent a notice to BusinessInsider.com. The source’s distributor is run by a big major label. The distributor told the indie-label source that they had a few days to make any concerns known. The source was concerned that the major labels will take too many up-front payments from Google Music.

Google director of digital content Jamie Rosenberg said that Google Music is a “completely legal service.” Google said that Google Music is simply a back-up service for one’s own music collections, no different than using a back-up hard drive. Interestingly Amazon.com has had some conflicts with the music labels about the cloud music storage service that they launched. [BusinessInsider]

This morning the Google Android team had some big announcements at the I/O conference. About two and a half years ago, Google Android was just available on one device and launched in one country on one carrier. Now Android has over 100 million activated devices with 400,000 new devices being activated per day. There are now 200,000 free and paid applications on the Android Market. About 4.5 billion applications have been installed from the Android Market.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is moving forward with their cloud music service and launching it tomorrow at the I/O conference. What makes their service unique is that they do not have the approval from the major music labels and publishers. Google’s music service will be very similar to the Amazon.com Cloud Player. Talks between Google and the major music labels have not been going very well so the search engine giant decided to launch a reduced version of the music service.