A&R Worldwide and Mediaguide Announce Music Monitoring Alliance.

NEW YORK -- Effective immediately, independent global artist discovery and development leader A&R Worldwide will utilize the Mediaguide album-based Alternative Specialty Show chart each week in its radio/talent newsletters. Over 8,000 top major and independent label executives, managers, artists, attorneys, commercial radio and alternative specialty radio programmers subscribe to the newsletters.

Jim McKeon, Managing Director of A&R Worldwide, said, "Mediaguide's commitment to accurately monitor both domestic and international signed and unsigned acts provides us with a chart offering real competitive advantage for our readers. This is a potentially powerful tool that the recipients will find remarkably useful."

Mike Savage, Senior Director Creative & Media at A&R Worldwide, added, "A&R Worldwide's access to unprecedented domestic and international repertoire will provide Mediaguide with unrivaled access to music for monitoring. From our own experiences, Mediaguide has proven that it can input, access and monitor unsigned, independently signed and other information with tremendous accuracy. A&R Worldwide is committed to quality and excellence, and Mediaguide's similar commitment makes this a perfect alliance."

Joe Wallace, Mediaguide's Senior Vice President of Music, said, "This agreement with A&R Worldwide gives Mediaguide a powerful endorsement from the A&R community. The Alternative Specialty Show chart is just the beginning of our collaboration with A&R Worldwide. It also expands the reach and exposure of our Music Monitor(TM) and Artist Monitor(TM) services for labels, managers and individual musicians to track airplay from artists at different stages in their careers."

As part of this partnership, A&R Worldwide will work with Mediaguide in building a new Electronic/Dance Specialty Show panel and feature that chart in its monthly newsletters. A&R Worldwide will endorse and recommend Mediaguide's Music Monitor(TM) and Artist Monitor(TM) products to the record labels, artists, managers and attorneys that it works with from all over the globe. The chart information that A&R Worldwide will publish can positively increase new and emerging artist's exposure to industry executives on an international front.

About A&R Worldwide

A&R Worldwide is a globally respected independent artist discovery and development resource whose team has helped over 35 artists secure major label record deals in the past few years including international Platinum-selling acts Keane and Missy Higgins. In addition, A&R Worldwide staff has played a pivotal role in the early discovery, development and exposure of globally renowned artists Dido, Faithless, Sixpence None The Richer, Fatboy Slim, H-Blockx and many others.

A&R Worldwide publishes weekly industry newsletters, which are read by over 8,000 music and media executives (radio, Film/TV, A&R, publishers, managers, trade organizations, new media, bookers/promoters, etc.) worldwide.

In addition, A&R Worldwide will present the international music and media conference MUSEXPO (www.musexpo.net) in Los Angeles, May 1-4, 2005, which will feature some of the world's top creative and business leaders from the entertainment industries. For more information on A&R Worldwide, log on to www.anrworldwide.com.

About Mediaguide

Mediaguide's proprietary technology monitors nearly 2,500 radio stations across the United States 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - that's more than the combined number of stations monitored by its closest competitors. The Mediaguide Monitor(TM) platform provides music industry professionals, artists, songwriters and radio station directors with online, real-time access to the most comprehensive and cost effective radio airplay information available.

Mediaguide, based in Berwyn, PA, is a joint venture of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and ConneXus Corporation. Learn more about Mediaguide at www.mediaguide.com.

About Mediaguide Music Monitor(TM) and Artist Monitor(TM)

With a monitoring network that crosses college, non-commercial and commercial formats, Mediaguide's MusicMonitor(TM) and ArtistMonitor(TM) information services can support the entire lifecycle of music promotion, artist discovery and development.

MusicMonitor(TM) addresses the fact that music industry participants from labels to retailers, distributors to promoters need credible, accurate data about market exposure for their artists and product. The product provides more than 20 reports, including Airplay & Airplay Comparison, Genre & Format Crossover Summaries, Playlists, Charts and other tools to track and analyze airplay.

The more basic ArtistMonitor(TM) provides independent and DIY artists with information and tools to more effectively manage their own careers. For the first time artists can use real airplay data about stations that matter to them to determine which key radio stations to list on their website for fans to call and request their music; to map out tours to regions and markets with key radio support; to target markets for street teams and additional promotion; and to more accurately select markets for independent retail placement.

Visit www.musicmonitor.com and www.artistmonitor.com for more information.