Music giant Universal Music Group, the world’s “largest music company and a unit of French-based Vivendi Universal,” says it will make 43,000 songs it owns available for downloading over the internet. Individual songs will be “available for downloading and recording to a CD for US99 cents, and albums for $US9.99. The company said it was the first major label ‘to offer music fans such a broad catalogue of music tracks for preview and purchase’.”