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Service Offers Paid Downloads and Free Tracks From Top GarageBand.com
Musicians Including Content From Rising Pop Star Geoff
ByrdREDMOND, Wash. -- Nov. 16,
2004 -- Starting today, music fans in the United States will be able to
go to one place to buy music from mainstream artists as well as
discover new artists through free legal downloads from independent
musicians. MSN Music, located at http://www.music.msn.com, has teamed
up with GarageBand.com, the largest community of independent musicians
on the Web, to offer free music downloads, radio and other content from
emerging artists.
The alliance with GarageBand.com will help
music fans easily discover their next favorite band without spending
hours scouring multiple Web sites or local CD stores. Available at
http://music.msn.com/garageband, the GarageBand.com site hosted by MSN
Music will feature music and content from GarageBand.com's top-rated
independent artists spanning several genres. Today the GarageBand.com
page on MSN Music will highlight five up-and-coming musicians,
including rising star Geoff Byrd, who has recently dominated
GarageBand.com's listener ratings as a top-rated artist.
"There's so much great music produced by independent
artists these days, including the music that may be in tomorrow's top
10," said Rob Bennett, senior director of MSN Entertainment.
"GarageBand.com's listener-rating system is an excellent filter for
undiscovered talent, and teaming up with GarageBand.com is a great way
for us to help music fans discover new tracks and emerging artists that
they wouldn't find on other music services."
GarageBand.com Alliance Offers Fans Multiple Options for
Discovering New Music
The alliance between MSN
Music and GarageBand.com will offer a broad range of music discovery
tools over the coming months, including these:
* GarageBand.com hub page. MSN Music has created a page dedicated to
GarageBand.com, featuring information from the site as well as
individual artist pages that specifically highlight a variety of the
musicians that receive the best ratings from GarageBand.com's listener
community.
* Former MP3.com archive. MSN Music plans to
initially offer 150,000 tracks that GarageBand.com is restoring from
the former MP3.com archive.* The archive represents a broad range of
music and, once available through a link on MSN, will be one of the
largest sources of free legal music in the world.
* Music
charts. Lists of GarageBand.com's top-ranked songs, generated by the
site's unique listener-based review process and representing a variety
of musical genres from hip-hop to jazz, will appear on MSN Music.
* Free downloads. In the coming months, additional tracks from
more than 100,000 independent musicians from GarageBand.com's extensive
library will be made available through a link on MSN Music.
* GarageBand.com Radio. In the coming months, an MSN Music station will
be programmed to stream the top-ranked music from GarageBand.com's
thousands of up-and-coming independent artists.
"MSN Music provides GarageBand.com's artists with the one thing
they need most to further their careers: exposure to a mass audience,"
said Ali Partovi, CEO of GarageBand.com. "MSN's dedication to promoting
independent music will allow both artists and music fans to realize the
Internet's true potential for transforming the music business."
Singer-Songwriter Geoff Byrd Gets Star Treatment on
MSN Music
The first artist highlighted on MSN
Music's GarageBand.com site is Geoff Byrd. The Portland, Ore.-based
singer-songwriter is one of the best-rated artists of all time on
GarageBand.com, boasting four songs in the site's listener-selected Top
10. Geoff Byrd's music also has been added to the MSN top 40 and
alternative pop radio stations and will be included in promotions
featured across the MSN network.
"It's amazing
to see my music go from being rated by listeners on GarageBand.com one
day to reaching a national audience on MSN Music the next," said Byrd.
"The Internet is where tomorrow's stars are going to be discovered, and
MSN Music and GarageBand.com are turning the dream into a reality for
artists like me."
In addition to Geoff Byrd, new
independent artists spotlighted on MSN Music include Rowdee Black
Giants, Anne Heaton, Trip2Go and Sci-Fi Lullaby, whose music ranges
from high-energy live hip-hop to folk-infused pop. To help music fans
discover this new talent, MSN Music will feature one free track from
each artist. Their albums will be available for purchase from their
custom artist pages.
About GarageBand.com
GarageBand.com (http://www.GarageBand.com) is the
world's largest musician community and home to the definitive charts of
independent music. Since 1999, fourteen of its highest-ranking bands
have been signed by major labels, including double-platinum recording
artists Drowning Pool, and many more have scored licensing or
publishing deals. In April 2004, GarageBand.com acquired exclusive
rights to resurrect the former MP3.com community of 250,000 artists and
1.7 million songs. GarageBand.com uses collaborative filtering to let
ordinary people identify the best songs. Recognized by Time Magazine as
one of 2003's "50 Best Websites," GarageBand.com's mission is to
empower musicians and redefine how music is discovered and promoted.
GarageBand.com is run by CEO Ali Partovi, whose previous startup,
LinkExchange, was acquired by Microsoft in 1998.
About MSN
MSN attracts more than 360
million unique users worldwide per month. With localized versions
available globally in 40 markets and 20 languages, MSN is a world
leader in delivering Web services to consumers and online advertising
opportunities to businesses worldwide. The most useful and innovative
online service today, MSN brings consumers everything they need from
the Web to make the most of their time online. MSN is located on the
Web at http://www.msn.com. MSN worldwide sites are located at
http://www.msn.com/worldwide.ashx.
About
Microsoft
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"MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions
that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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