Eleven Leading Online Music Sites Partner With listen.com; Partnerships Will Make It Easier to Find Music on the Web.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999-- listen.com, the Internet's first comprehensive directory of downloadable music, today announced partnerships with 11 leading music-focused Internet companies. They are Emusic.com, Amp3, Audio Explosion, CDuctive, Customdisc, Epitonic, Guitar.com, IUMA IUMA Internet Underground Music Archive IUMA Interim Use Material Authorization , Riffage.com, Songs.com and Tunes.com. The partnerships facilitate a process that will allow the 11 sites to get their artist information in listen.com's directory as quickly as possible. The deals come only one week after listen.com's launch. "listen.com's mission is simple," said listen.com's founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Rob Reid. "We want to make finding downloadable music a quick and intuitive process. Our new partners will be working with us to help promote artists on their sites, which in turn will make it easier for users to find new music. Each of our partners is helping to bring a tremendous diversity of new and familiar voices to music lovers, and we are thrilled to be in business with them." listen.com's directory helps consumers locate and learn about legal music available anywhere on the Web, including music hosted by the partners announced today. The directory includes: search; categorization of nearly 600 music genres This list is split into four separate pages: How the Partnerships Will Work listen.com will work with its partner sites to expedite the inclusion of their links to specific artist downloads and to increase each site's brand visibility in the music download A music download refers to the transferring of a music file from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment if required. directory. listen.com's team of professional music editors will also categorize and review the music as new artists are added on the partner sites as quickly as possible. "Epitonic features an eclectic assortment of great, cutting-edge music from some of the best record labels around," said Terry Whalen, co-founder and CEO of Epitonic. "listen.com's directory will help this music break through the clutter and confusion of the Internet and provide our site with ongoing exposure to our target audiences." "In this explosion of digital music, there is a definite need for consumers to be able to sort through the vast numbers of music download sites that are out there," said Chris Phenner, business development manager at Tunes.com. "listen.com's featured listings of our RollingStone.com and TheSource.com downloads will undoubtedly be an important avenue for people to locate the high-quality music that they seek from the brands that they know." Immediate Success Among several immediate outcomes of these collaborations is listen.com's joint partnership with EMusic.com to promote CARE for Kosovo, an MP3 benefit album whose proceeds will go to benefit CARE, the international relief organization and its refugee support programs. The album includes previously unreleased tracks from indie rock Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with underground music as a whole, though more specifically implicates that the music meets the criterion of being rock, as notables Guided by Voices, Cat Power and Superchunk. It is available for download from www.emusic.com/kosovo. "Our relationship with listen.com has already helped the CARE for Kosovo album receive much broader Web visibility," said Gene Hoffman, president and CEO of EMusic.com. "Through both EMusic.com and our IUMA site, we look forward to working with listen.com to provide an easy way for music lovers to search for and find the downloadable music they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ." About listen.com listen.com is the Internet's first comprehensive directory of downloadable music. The site includes original reviews and categorization of thousands of artists and links to their legally posted work. The company was founded in December 1998 by Robert Reid Robert Reid is the name of:
An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. and author of "Architects of the Web." listen.com is backed by August Capital and Austin Ventures. It was seeded by Altos Ventures and three prominent Founder/CEOs: Chris Anderson Chris Anderson may mean:
Waitt was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa. , Gateway Computers. listen.com is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and can be found on the Internet at www.listen.com. The site opened to the public on June 21. AMP3.com AMP3.com, the Internet's newest and fastest-growing MP3 web site, is committed to featuring start-up musicians alongside industry names, and has successfully delivered more than 370,000 downloads since launching its site four months ago. What distinguishes it from other MP3 sites is its outspokenly cooperative stance toward the recording industry's efforts to devise a standard for the MP3 technology that will better protect copyright, and that all of the more than 3,000 artists on the site get paid for every download. About Audio Explosion, Inc. Audio Explosion is a start-up company start-up company A new business. based in San Francisco that is dedicated to leveraging the power of the Internet to create new markets for music and new experiences for music fans. Audio Explosion creates technology to solve the problems associated with music-on-demand systems. Audio Explosion's service is compatible with emerging technology standards and is extendible for integration with partner company solutions. The Company was formed by a team of technologists, interactive music veterans, and entrepreneurs. Audio Explosion can be reached at www.audioexplosion.com or via e-mail at info@audioexplosion.com. About CDuctive.com CDuctive.com (www.cductive.com) is the leading aggregator and distributor of independent label music on the Internet. CDuctive.com has secured relationships with over 300 record labels representing thousands of artists and has amassed an unrivaled music catalog across the dance/electronic, indie rock and hip-hop music genres. Maximizing the distribution potential for its music label partners, CDuctive.com has a strategic network of over 60 online partners including CDnow, Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person Network, Tunes.com, Raveworld.net, Pseudo Network, CMJ CMJ Chinese Medical Journal CMJ College Media Journal CMJ College Mathematics Journal CMJ Complete Metal Jacket CMJ Certified Measuring Judge CMJ Chief of Military Justice CMJ Critical Mass Journal and Sonicnet, reaching in excess of 10 million unique users per month. About EMusic.com Since it was founded in January 1998, EMusic.com (Nasdaq: EMUS) has established itself as a clear leader in the rapidly expanding market for downloadable music. Through relationships with artists and license agreements with leading independent record labels, EMusic.com has emerged as the premier Web site for sampling and purchasing music in the MP3 format, which has become the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, in the digital distribution of music with millions of users around the world. EMusic.com features a constantly expanding catalog of music and offers music fans complete albums for $8.99 or the ability to purchase individual tracks for $.99. EMusic.com is based in Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. About Epitonic, Inc. San Francisco-based Epitonic, Inc. was founded in January 1999 and has emerged as the leading source for cutting-edge downloadable music on the Web. Epitonic's dedicated editorial staff focuses on licensing only the best music from quality record labels such as Ubiquity Ubiquity See also Omnipresence. Burma-Shave their signs seen as “verses of the wayside throughout America.” [Am. Commerce and Folklore: Misc. , Darla and Desoto Records DeSoto Records is an American record label based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1989, it is run by Bill Barbot and Kim Coletta, both formerly of the band Jawbox. It was first founded by members of the band Edsel to release their first single. . By maintaining high musical standards, Epitonic is creating a loyal community of registered users who know that they will find the music they want--unless it finds them first. For more information, visit http://www.epitonic.com. About Guitar.com Guitar.com is the ultimate online destination for the guitar enthusiast. Since it was founded in May, Guitar.com has grown its community to over 50,000 members and established itself as a leader among vertical music channels on the web. The site offers free Web pages for artists and instructors, as well as a searchable MP3 database of original works, discussion boards, editorial content, lessons, humor and related products and services. Guitar.com, based in Chicago, is located on the Internet at www.guitar.com About IUMA - the Internet Underground Music Archive The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was a pioneer of on-line music. IUMA was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993, for the purpose of providing a venue for unsigned artists to share their music and IUMA, founded in 1993, was the Internet's first site to offer unsigned musicians the opportunity to promote and sell their music using the Web. Now operated by EMusic.com, IUMA features over 3,500 artists on individual web sites offering unique URLs (bandname.iuma.com). Its site -- www.iuma.com -- offers unsigned music fans audio sampling of artists' recordings in Real Audio and MP3 formats, as well as purchase of downloadable tracks and physical product through a secure e-commerce system. Each IUMA artist site features graphics, photos, lyrics, tour dates, artist bios and any other information desired by the artist. About Riffage.com Riffage.com, a web-based music service aimed at "connected" musicians and fans worldwide, combines powerful community, communications and e-commerce capabilities to deliver the most comprehensive source for cutting-edge music on the Internet. For artists, Riffage.com provides a powerful medium to develop their fan base, promote their music and sell merchandise. For consumers, Riffage.com provides an online community where fans of similar or varied music tastes can converge to discover and discuss independent artists and their music. Unique personalization tools provide a better consumer experience than the other music sites by enabling people to quickly and easily access the type of music they're interested in. Riffage.com is a privately-owned company. More information on the company's products and services are available at http://www.riffage.com. About songs.com songs.com is the World Wide Web address of more than 300 professional, independent musicians. Formed in 1995 and based in Nashville, the roster of this "virtual record store" includes some of the most accomplished songwriters in the business, presented in a variety of styles ranging from solo acoustic guitar and vocal to country and Americana to fully orchestrated or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. pop, rock and R&B. About Tunes.com Tunes.com (www.Tunes.com), formerly JAMTV, is a leading music hub See digital media hub. on the Internet -- combining the Web's largest collection of music content, personalized tools for music discovery, and unique, genre-specific programming developed in collaboration with top industry publishers Rolling Stone (www.RollingStone.com and 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. keyword: Rolling Stone), The Source (www.TheSource.com) and Down Beat (www.DownBeatJazz.com). For more information, please see our online pressroom at www.tunes.com/tunes/about.html. |
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