[UPDATED] “These go to Eleven” Overview of what Google Music is Now

I am sitting here impatiently waiting for the live stream of the “These go to eleven” event from Google. This is where we are all supposed to finally see the new addition of music that we can all purchase via the Android market.

OK, here we go..

They had a pretty clever intro of old records and tapes. Here goes as much info as I can write and listen too. As soon as the video is available to watch we will get it posted and focus on a few key points soon.

In May they launched Google Music beta. We all know about that and how successful that was. On average users streamed 2.5 hours a day. They have delivered over 100 million free songs through Magnifier.

From May at 100 Million devices, to today, we are now at 200 million. We are adding 500,000 new activations daily.

Starting today the Google Music beta service will be free for all U.S. residence with no invitation needed. No fees to be added to the service. They are going to keep the cloud service free.

You can pin music files from your collection to allow you to listen to your favorite music even when offline.

The new market now will include a music section. They have focused on a few main ideas. Still offering staff picks and a familiar market layout. The market will also analyze your music you already have and make suggestions in the market that you might like too. This is not based solely on the music you have already purchased but all the music you have.

In the store, you get a 90 second preview of the song and all the files are in 320kbs MP3 format. You can directly share your music selections from the market to your Google+ account.

You can now shop for music via the web based market as well. All purchases will download and go directly to your Google Music account. Everyday there will be a free song to get. There will also be many songs for free all the time and there will be a featured artist of the week every week. There will even be interviews with musicians available to watch right on your PC through the market.

You will be able to recommend and share any track you just purchased to Google+. Your friends will then be able to listen to the entire song, no time limit, one time through and be able to go buy the track right from your post. You can also share an entire album with your Google+ friends and they can listen to that entire album for free one time.

Go to  music.google.com now to get the latest updated web app. The new market should be rolling out right now as well, and the new Music app is now available in the market also.

Content partners – over 1000 record labels already on board. Offering over 13 million tracks, 8 million live today.

Exclusive artist to Google Music. 6 unreleased concert series from the Rolling Stones. Busta Rymes will be debuting his new album on Google Music only and the single is available free today. The other artists located in the image below have offered up multiple albums for free for all of us to enjoy along with full concerts to watch.

New feature is Artist hub. Allowing artists to upload their own personally created music, as long as they hold the rights to it, and get it into the music store. They will be able to set everything up, upload their tracks and sell them individually or the whole album if they choose too. They can even put the record up in the store for free if they want. Artist get 70% of the revenue of tracks sold and there is no limit to the amount of music a new artist can upload. They can sell them and link them directly to their YouTube channel as well.

T-Mobile is completely on board. They were at the launch event as well. They plan to allow customers to purchase music directly through the Android Market and allow you to charge the purchase directly to your T-Mobile bill. They go on to talk about how 75% of phones sold are smart phones and 90% of those smartphones are all Android. Big win for Android and T-Mobile.

Free exclusive content from T-Mobile to T-Mobile customers and they plan to offer tons of free music through the end of the year to all T-Mobile customers. You get some TMO!

Links to know –

• market.android.com/music
• music.google.com/music/

 

App for your device – Google Music

The market app has been updated and is working. The Android market online is updated with the new Music section available but, the market on our devices might take a bit of time to get updated. I don’t have it just yet. You can still go online and get the music and listen to it through your devices though.

Additional images captured throughout the stream can be located below.

{UPDATE} The AndroidDevelopers Channel has recently released the recorded video of the live event that we all watched this afternoon. If you are interested in see the presentation in of its glory you can find the video below. The magic doesn’t start happening until 29 minutes 30 seconds. So to avoid wasting 30 minutes of your time, just fast forward.