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Search for your favourite band now and you’ll get an image of CD jewel case with details of recent albums and tracks to it’s right. Clicking on the jewel case will then take you to a page where you can view album reviews scraped from various music magazines and online opinion sites - NME, Rolling Stone et al are in on this.

You can also click through and buy the album from a selection of online stores. When I looked about Coldplay’s X&Y I got links to:

• iTunes Music Store
• MSN Music
• www.artistdirect.com
• Amazon
• Buy.com
• CD Universe
• Overstock.com
• Real Rhapsody
• J & R Music and Computer World
• Wal-Mart

Interestingly there was no album price listed for the album at the iTunes Music Store. Other things of interest … there are links to various services pertaining to the album / artist located in a list on the left. You can find sites related to the artist, band pictures from Google Images, artist news from Google News and discussion from Google Groups.

From a search marketing point of view I think that this makes a top 10 listing even more important if you are in the music industry, a listing in the top 3 results will be critical to your success. Indies will have problems with this, you’ll notice that most of the stores getting links out of Google MusicSearch are big players like iTunes, Amazon, Buy.com and Overstock.com. There doesn’t seem to be any correlation between product results at MusicSearch and Froogle, so I’m unsure what the results are based on. Looks like it is US-only right now.

The borg marches onward.