Billboard Talent Net Enters Asian Online Music Market; Strategic Partnership With Cyber Music Asia To Establish BTN Asia For Regional Marketing of Billboard Talent Net.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999-- BILLBOARD TALENT NET (BTN BTN In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Bhutan Ngultrum. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ), the first professionally-oriented Internet showcase for new and developing artists in every genre, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Cyber Music Asia (CMA CMA - Concert Multithread Architecture from DEC. ), a leading creator and manager of music-related content for the World Wide Web. Noting the significant potential and vast opportunities of the Asian online music market, Cyber Music Asia (www.cybermusicasia.com) will assume regional marketing of Billboard Talent Net (www.billboardtalentnet.com) under the BTN Asia moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. , throughout Australia, Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Singapore, Taiwan and other Asian territories. BTN Asia will actively tap into the many existing local new talent scenes and provide these developing artists with meaningful international online exposure, while bringing BTN's non-Asian acts closer to the region's music industry and fan communities. Initial emphasis will be placed on the expansion of the BTN Lounge Network throughout the Asian / Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. online marketplace. BTN Asia will begin by placing so-called BTN Lounges on web sites such as XS MUSIC (www.xsmusic.com), PAIMM - The Malaysian Music Industry Academy (www.akademi.net) and Telebriti, an interactive TV gameshow site (www.telebriti.com.my), with others to follow. To further expose BTN's most popular new and unsigned unsigned Adjective (of a letter etc.) anonymous Adj. 1. unsigned - lacking a signature; "the message was typewritten and unsigned" signed - having a handwritten signature; "a signed letter" talent, each BTN Lounge publishes a market-specific Top 10 ranking, providing meaningful insight into the popularity of some of today's most outstanding new and emerging acts according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a particular market's audience. BTN Asia will start publishing the BTN Top 10 ASEAN ASEAN: see Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN in full Association of Southeast Asian Nations International organization established by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in (Association of South East Asian Nations), to include Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines and Thailand, amongst others. "CMA will undertake localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. of lounge content to suit the many different and diverse Asian music Asian music is an interesting loose term that encompasses numerous different musical styles originating from a large number of Asian cultures. For more specific information, try:
and cultural environments, while still retaining the essence, look and feel of the BTN web site," said CMA Managing Director, Johan Nawawi. "We intend to make Malaysia the hub for delivering Internet-based Asian music content and services, especially with the availability of technological and infrastructure resources within the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. ). This collaboration represents a significant milestone towards that goal." "We are excited to team up with Cyber Music Asia in this local partnership", says Andreas Wuerfel, General Manager of Billboard Talent Net. "The Asia-Pacific online marketplace is developing quickly, and the quality and number of available new artists there is significant. With that in mind, CMA brings needed extensive IT experience and regional music marketing expertise to this cooperation. Now, in combination with the depth of our online showcase service model, we will be able to provide extensive and meaningful online exposure for all artists involved." About The BTN Lounge Network: The BTN Lounge Network permits syndication of BTN's premium music and artist information for online distribution into select key markets. While catering to a techno-savvy, young adult audience interested in unique, cutting-edge music programming, each BTN Lounge also provides music industry professionals, looking to sign new talent with an early indication of an artist's local marketability. Uniquely residing inside every partner's web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , each Lounge enables local users' entrance at no cost, providing instant access to meaningful artist and music rankings, such as the weekly BTN Top 10 and Radio BTN Top 50, without ever having to leave the participating web site. Visitors are invited to register, sample music and vote for their favorite artists. Each Lounge tabulates its own users' votes, contributing to a comprehensive, market-specific Top 10. The BTN Lounge Network was first launched through a series of high-profile partnership agreements throughout Germany, and BTN plans to further expand its Lounge network via additional regional partnerships in other major markets around the world. Cyber Music Asia (CMA) is a Malaysian web-content developer, founded in 1997 with a mission to expose and export Malaysian and Asian music content globally using the Internet. The company is the brainchild of award-winning Malaysian songwriter and producer, Johan Nawawi who tapped on his extensive experience and rapport with the Malaysian music industry to create a pioneering one-stop music site, XS MUSIC (www.xsmusic.com) that brings together news, interviews, music samples, artiste sites, chat-rooms, services directories and more, catering for music consumers and music professionals. Beyond XS MUSIC, CMA develops and manages content for music-related entities from record companies to industry associations as well as for major events such as the annual music industry awards, the AIM (www.xsmusic.com/aim). Billboard Talent Net (http://www.billboardtalentnet.com) is the first professionally oriented Internet showcase for new and developing artists in every genre. Launched in May, 1998, the site provides music industry professionals and fans alike the opportunity to navigate an enhanced, 24-hour, interactive link to the world of new and emerging artists and their music - well before they become household names History Formation (1998-2000) Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. . First to provide a meaningful set of rankings to profile top unsigned artists, the Top 10 and Radio BTN Top 50 forecast the next successful generation in music. BTN also provides the first professionally oriented online business-to-business service - a virtual marketplace for small and larger independent music companies seeking licensing and artist development opportunities for their own artists. Billboard Talent Net is owned by Talent Net, Inc., a licensee of the Billboard Music Group, and has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Germany and Malaysia. |
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