The industry is also mulling other ways to charge more for online singles. One option under consideration is bundling hit songs with less-desirable tracks. Another possibility is charging more for a single track if it is available online before the broader release of the entire album from which it is taken. There is also talk of lowering the price on some individual tracks from older albums.

If this was because the music industry is willing to pay the artists that amount more - lets say from 2,50 $ (now most music dowmloads are 0,99$) they would pay the artist 1,53 $ (that would be all the raise of the download price resulting on the artists account) it would be different. But I can not see that as the main motivation on the music industry's motives.

Rising the price will not make people download more. Or probably it will but not of the legal, paid downloads. It would mean a revival of the p2p networks. Some people would go back to buying physical CDs - if they can afford it. And more and more would probably just get tired of it all (again) and in the best case scenario start to listen to a radio.

Would you pay 2,49 $ to download one track? I have friends who do like and use iTMS, but I can't personally think of even one person that I'd know who would be willing to pay that much for it.