Now Zune marketplace allows music purchasing in Canada

August 8, 2011 | By Surur

We reported a few days ago that traces of the Zune Marketplace for music was showing up in Canada, and now Zunited has updated their report, stating that they are now in fact able to purchase music.

The service is still pretty bareboned, as Zunited notes:

This is great news but a few things are still missing though: the ability to properly go from an artist in your collection to their respective page in the Marketplace still results in an error message about the artist being “no longer available at Zune Marketplace.” Also, the pretty view of featured artists, top 10, and also general browsing experience seems to be somewhere between lacking and non-existent. Another aesthetic feature that is missing is the artist pictures and bio, which make the music user experience on the Windows Phone and Zune HD exponentially more enjoyable.

Zunited notes that just being able to purchase music in Canada is an achievement – the market has numerous rules and regulations designed specifically to keep music stores out of the country.

We have recently recieved similar reports from Australia, indicating that a possible expansion of the Zune music service is underway, hopefully with a big splash to coincide with Mango handsets.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged canada, marketplace, windows phone 7, zune

Anonymous

This is great news!!!! Works for me.. Finally!!
Sucks it’s not the full experience though … I’m hoping soon though!
http://twitter.com/mrcraggle Craig Osborne

I assumed they had the Marketplace in Canada, after all they do sell the Zune 80/120 there. Seems weird to launch a product and then have functionality missing *glares at MS*
http://www.facebook.com/deadonthefloor Mark Firemoon

I believe you’ve just made my wife’s day….
Canadian website does not show music yet.
I will check my client once I get home and post back.
Has anyone in Canada tried Bing music search in WP7Mango after hearing this?
Does it still direct to the wrong part of the marketplace?
Anonymous

I just opened Zune to check and I’m still just getting Apps and Video, no Music….
Anonymous

go go go ms, more countries, then world domination with zune and wp7
Anonymous

One small store for Canada, one giant leap for Microsoft’s credibility in digital retail… although really this should have been the case years ago, I’m glad it has finally happened.

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