Zune Marketplace coming to Canada Oct 3rd

[George P Global Moderator]

Good news to our friends up north. On October 3rd, the Zune Marketplace is headed your way, hopefully completely unfiltered.

"We are excited to announce that Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass will roll out in Canada on October 3rd, providing access to a growing music catalog of more than 14 million tracks from all the major labels, as well as tens of thousands of indie labels. Zune Music Pass will also be available for C$9.99 per month or C$99.90 annually and can be used on Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Windows PC, Zune devices and Zune.net."

The deal sounds good to us, especially since up to this point people with Windows Phones up in Canada have not had the full experience. This looks to finally fix this and the pricing seems right about in line with other countries.

In addition, you'll be able to stream "tens of thousands" music videos to your Zune PC and later, the Xbox 360.

http://zuneinsider.com/2011/09/29/zune-music-marketplace-expands-to-canada-new-changes-to-zune-music-pass-in-the-us/

[spudtrooper]

Good news! i'll keep my 15/month plan + keep 10. Excited to see music videos licensed. thats a huge win if you ask me - especially on the xbox

[George P Global Moderator]

The $15 a month is going to only be around for current Zune pass customers though. All new Zune Pass users will come in at $9.99 but not get the 10 free tracks a month in the USA as well.