iTunes has been at the top of the tree for music downloads for some years now, but the competition is gathering in force. Recently websites such as Amazon, Tesco and as of last week’s announcement, Sky, starting to offer MP3s as downloads.

MySpace announced as far back as April that they too would be offering DRM-free music via its social networking website, which can played on iPods, MP3 players and also used on mobile phones as ringtones. MySpace has just three of the four big record labels on board, as EMI are still to sign up to their service.

Now MySpace says their service is to actually launch in September, with features coming online slowly over a period of a few months. This is according to their CEO, Chris DeWolfe.

This announcement was made by Chris DeWolfe at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference, where Rocker Neil Young also made a speech rubbishing the quality of MP3 music.