Supermarket giant Tesco is hoping to take a slice of Apple’s pie with the launch of a new music download service.

The service will launch as part of Tesco.com and will come packing 500,000 tracks which can be downloaded for 79p each while albums will cost £7.99.

Tesco is already one of the largest music vendors in the UK and is making a move into the download space as part of its strategy to give its customers an online version of all its bricks-and-mortar services and a desire to get involved in the expanding market. Analyst house JupiterResearch predicts that by 2009, digital music in Europe will be worth €836m.

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