AOL Music Wins First Annual MidemNet Innovation Award.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2003
First Listen Program Prevails Over Apple's iPod, Yahoo!'s Launch
and Microsoft's Windows Media 9 for Outstanding Contribution to the
Digital Music Industry
America Online See AOL. , the world's leading interactive services company, today announced that AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Music's First Listen program has been awarded the first annual MidemNet Innovation Award. The Award was established by Midem, which is recognized as the world's leading international music market, to honor the most innovative company in the digital music industry. The award was presented to AOL Music's Executive Director Evan Harrison at the 4th annual MidemNet Conference on January 18 in Cannes, France. MidemNet is a daylong program devoted to the digital music industry, preceding the Midem conference. AOL was one of ten companies nominated for the MidemNet Innovation Award by a jury made up of music industry professionals and international media members specializing in music and new media. Companies were nominated for launching a successful new technology, a new concept or a process relevant to online music. Other nominees included Apple's iPod, Yahoo!'s Launch, Listen.com's Rhapsody (1) A subscription-based online music service from RealNetworks that gives users unlimited access to a vast library of major and independent label music. Within a single interface, Rhapsody provides access to streaming music, Internet radio and extensive music information and , Microsoft's Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. 9, OD2, Phononet, Pressplay, Shazam and Vitaminic. Music fans were able to vote for their favorite initiative from November 28, 2002 to January 6, 2003 at www.midem.com. "AOL Music's groundbreaking franchises have transformed the way that AOL members experience music online and have helped make AOL Music the # 1 online music destination," said Kevin Conroy Kevin Conroy (born November 30 1955) is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, perhaps best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Batman in numerous animated series and features that comprised the DC animated universe. , Senior Vice President and General Manager of AOL Entertainment. "In partnership with the entire music industry, AOL Music brings the widest range of exclusive content to music fans, and AOL Music's First Listen franchise represents the first time in the history of the music business that songs from top artists debut first on a media outlet other than radio." "First Listen debuts have allowed AOL members to experience more than 50 exclusive world premieres to date of new songs from top artists representing all genres of music," said Bill Wilson, Vice President and General Manager, AOL Music. "In November alone, First Listen debuted new songs by Mariah Carey, Barbra Streisand Noun 1. Barbra Streisand - United States singer and actress (born in 1942) Barbra Joan Streisand, Streisand , Jay-Z, matchbox twenty and Phish. A recent First Listen for Christina Aguilera's song 'Infatuation,' set a new record on AOL Music with nearly 2 million streams in one day. We look forward to expanding upon Noun 1. expanding upon - adding information or detail expansion step-up, increase - the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" the success of First Listen with additional programs such as First View -- through which we exclusively debut new music videos -- as well as our original performance/interview program Sessions@AOL, thus realizing the promise of the online medium for music." By offering artists the opportunity to reach AOL's unmatched global audience, First Listen has become the premier outlet for today's hottest stars to exclusively debut their new songs. In 2002 alone, more than 50 artists debuted their new singles on AOL Music First Listen, including Bruce Springsteen, Nelly, Christina Aguilera  Some statements may be disputed, incorrect, , biased or otherwise objectionable. About AOL Music AOL Music, a division of America Online, Inc., reaches the largest audience of online music fans in the world through a rich array of programming, products and services that make it easy to discover, experience, listen to and buy music online. AOL Music's offerings are available at the number one Internet music destination, the AOL Music Channel, and throughout the AOL service, AOL Broadband Services and AOL's family of Web brands including Netscape, CompuServe, AIM, ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , Spinner, Winamp and SHOUTcast. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL). Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. |
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