Okay, I was just searching for ways to make money online and this came up on google news. Don't worry it's not a thing that says click here to make money. Just some crazy news in my opinion. Kids and teens and moms and dads already have songs on their phones either as ringtones or just mp3s so why not let the labels be at the point of sale of their phone too?...check it out. Music Row With growth of digital music sales slowing, the nation's major record labels are looking to a new source of revenue: a cut of consumers' cell phone bills. The four major record labels have agreed to a deal that will supply their music catalogs to cell phone provider Cricket as part of its new Muve Music service, an all-in-one cell phone and music plan that has been introduced in about a dozen cities, including Nashville last week. For $55 a month and the purchase of a Muve-ready cell phone, Cricket users can download as many songs or ringtones onto their phones as they like, along with access to unlimited phone, text and Web services. In return, the record labels — Sony Music Group, EMI Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group — get an unspecified slice of consumers' cell phone payments. It's the latest signal that the nation's four big record labels are aggressively looking beyond the iTunes, pay-per-download model of selling music to make a buck. The deal comes after a year of stagnant download sales and a sometimes-contentious relationship with Apple, the owner of iTunes. "The inclusion of a premium digital music service in the wireless plan is an exciting new opportunity to expand the market for commercial digital music," said Thomas Hesse, president, global digital business, U.S. sales and corporate strategy, Sony Music Entertainment. Record labels have been largely unsuccessful in developing new revenue models for the digital age, leaving iTunes to become the single-largest source of digital sales. But after its first five years of rapid growth, iTunes appears unlikely to ever make up lost business and the pay-per-download model appears to actually be losing ground. In 2010, digital sales increased by only 6 percent — half the growth rate registered in 2009 and far from the growth of digital music purchases in earlier years. Those statistics are compiled by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which values the digital music industry worldwide at $4.6 billion. And record executives have chafed at times at Apple's control of the terms of selling their music. As a result, recording companies have been looking for other models, making deals with online streaming music service providers that either offer unlimited music to consumers for a monthly subscription fee, or that are supported by advertisers. Muve, however, is the first service to bundle an unlimited music and phone service plan. The service is available only on a Samsung Suede phone that comes equipped with Muve. Consumers can access music at a touch of the "Muve" button on the smart phone's screen. They can pick any song they like that's in the catalog, which is downloaded to the phone. One catch is that subscribers can't move the music anywhere else. It stays on their phone. And if they stop being Cricket customers, they lose all their tunes. Music not produced by the major labels isn't available. Taylor Swift? Not on Muve. Her label, Big Machine Records, doesn't have an agreement with Cricket. Cricket Communication's area general manager, Liz Hough, said the company is working with several independent labels and hopes to expand the music library.(news was written by Anita Wadhwani)