[5][6] Following the announcement on the same month, Line Corporation acquired MixRadio from Microsoft in order to make its expansion to music industry globally.
[7] Line Music was initially launched in Thailand where Thailand is the second largest Line messenger market share in the world after Japan, with 33 million registered users using this service,[8] compared to the Japanese market with 58 million registered users.
[9] Line has signed deals with major labels in Thailand such as RS Music, BEC-TERO, SpicyDisc and What The Duck to allow their works to be streamed in this service.
In this video, a girl is dancing and singing at home while listening to Carly Rae Jepsen's latest single, I Really Like You.
However the pricing for the monthly subscription of Music Unlimited was high at ¥1,480 due to Sony's monopolistic practices and also their decision to withhold their catalogues from iTunes Store until end of 2012.
[9] The reception for the Line Music was well received by the customers in both Japan and Thailand with 6.2 million downloads within the first months of availability.