CDNOW CONNECTS FANS WITH THEIR FAVORITE ARTISTS
With Exclusive 'Meet The Music' Sweepstakes
NEW YORK, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- CDNOW (Nasdaq: CDNW), the leading online music store, has launched its hottest summer sweepstakes to date with the exclusive "Meet The Music" sweeps, offering fans the chance to meet some of today's biggest music superstars including: Sugar Ray, Sarah McLachlan, Cassandra Wilson, Baaba Maal and Keith Lockhart of the Boston Pops. "Our vision of a great music store is one that allows the customers to meet the artists," said Tracie Reed, VP of Merchandising for CDNOW. "We have plans to do lots of exciting things in the future that will bring our customers closer to their favorite artists."
Through August 9th, visitors can enter the sweepstakes by completing an entry form at cdnow.com/meet_the_music or by sending their entry via mail (see official sweepstakes rules for complete details). Winners will be drawn at the close of the sweepstakes. Earlier this year, CDNOW gave one lucky winner the chance to meet Country-Pop superstar Shania Twain, and now its offering five fans the chance to meet one of today's hottest artists from the genre of their choice.
5 Grand Prizes Five grand prizes of equal value will be awarded. When completing the sweepstakes entry form, visitors pick the artist that they would like to meet, so there will be no possibility of duplicate grand prizes. Grand prize winners will receive: 3-day, 2-night trip to meet the artist of their choice; Round-trip coach air transportation; Hotel accommodations for two nights; Round-trip hotel/concert limousine service; Two concert tickets; Two VIP passes to the show; $250 spending money.
In addition, 80 First Prizes ($100 CDNOW shopping spree), 100 Second Prizes ($50 CDNOW shopping spree), 125 Third Prizes ($15 CDNOW shopping spree) and 2,500 Fourth Prizes ($10 CDNOW shopping spree) will be awarded.
CDNOW, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNW), the combination of N2K Inc. and CDNOW, Inc., is the vertical category leader in e-commerce, the third most popular e-commerce site according to a recent Nielsen/NetRatings report (May 1999), has an audience with the largest concentration of teens among e-commerce sites, and is the largest retailer of custom music compilations on the Internet. CDNOW helps people to enrich their lives by providing a digital connection to music. CDNOW (cdnow.com) offers over 500,000 music-related items-ten times the size of a typical music megastore -- intelligent album recommendations, custom CDs, music samples, a vast library of interviews and news from top music writers and reviews from Rolling Stone, MTV/VH1 and CMJ New Music Monthly. CDNOW, Inc.'s network of strategic partners includes America Online, Yahoo!, Lycos/Tripod, Netscape, Excite, WebCrawler, MTV/VH1, RollingStone.com, and CBS Cable's TNN, CMT and country.com. SOURCE CDNOW, Inc. -0- 07/12/99 /CONTACT: Marlo Zoda, 215-619-9432, mzoda@cdnow.com, or Jenni Glenn, 215-619-9546, jglenn@cdnow.com, both of CDNOW, Inc.; Allison Elbl, aelbl@shorefire.com, or Seth Cohen, both of Shore Fire Media, 718-522-7171, for CDNOW/ (CDNW) CO: CDNOW, Inc. ST: New York IN: ENT MLM SU: PDT -0- Jul/12/1999 11:01 EOS (PRN) Jul/12/1999 11:01 197 -0- (PRN) Jul/12/1999 11:16 N) J
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