Music Lives on Amie Street
Amie Street is a social network service and, at the same time, an indie online music store created by Elliott Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch in 2006. Artists can upload tracks on the site for other users to purchase (although many of the songs on the website are also for free). Popularity sets the price of the song. The price of a track starts at zero upon upload but then increases based on demand and popularity (the maximum price any song will rise to is 98¢ and artists get 70% of the revenue Amie Street makes). In terms of social networking, users can connect with fellow users through the “friend” feature wherein “friends” are categorized according to musical interests.