Google Play will now give away a free song every week. This promotion and, by the way of stating it, soon custom has arrived without prior notice to the search company's content store for Android. The most normal use we make of it is to buy applications and games for our tablet or smartphone, but we can also buy movies and music, as well as devices.
This practice is something that Apple has been doing for some time, not only with music but also with a game or application. Amazon makes a similar promotion with the free application of the day, always very interesting to review having its AppStore installed.
Either way, the Mountain Viewers take a big step with this gesture. Is a commercial projection that until now had not had, but in the case of music it can help us discover new artists or gradually have a medley on our device.
In this sense, there is a long way to go to the complexity and attractiveness of promotions on iTunes. There the albums that the artists are going to release can offer a free single as a prelude to the purchase of the album or they can even make advance purchases with special content or better prices.
The song chosen for this premiere is Hey Ho from The Lumineers, the first single from the Colorado band that came out at the beginning of 2012, that is to say, it is not a bombshell and it does not seem that Google's intention is to attract too much attention with it at the moment.
It is important to know that the songs, yes, they will be free but we must understand it as a price of 0 euros. That is, we buy them for 0 euros and that is why it is It is necessary to have the Google Wallet account activated.
Now we will have to be attentive to the Music section, and specifically to the category Free song of the week, often to see what we hunt and to see the quality of the “piped music” of the store.