Music sales widgets are online mp3 players that have an integrated option to also buy the track you are listening to. Personally I find the idea just brilliant. Selling and promoting your music with a music sales widget that can be placed on your webpage or a social networking site like MySpace. In most cases your fans can copy the widget and place it on their own website/blog/social networking site. This way you get even more visibility, possibly more revenue and in some cases the fan get also a small cut of the revenue.

Hometracked has a great article listing and comparing 7 most popular music sales widgets. I checked them all out and noticed couple of drawbacks in all of them. First of all, if you live for example in Europe and your fans are in Europe, US dollars aren’t the most convenient way for your fans to pay the music. Second of all, there should be language support for more languages than english. All of the widgets I checked out were aimed at US markets. So, I was thinking, if you could get a music sales widget that has multilingual and multicurrency support it would be pretty cool tool for indie artists around the world. Maybe if iTunes would some day catch on to this great new innovation…

Here are some music sales widgets:

• Nimbit
• Hoooka
• Amie Street
• Musicane
• BlastMyMusic
• Project Opus
• Snocap