Amazon.com to Add Sheryl Crow, David Byrne, Barry White, and Five Other Artists to Free Digital Downloads Area
Free Digital Downloads Area, Where Customers Have Performed Over
300,000 Downloads, Is a New Center for Free Downloads on the Internet
SEATTLE, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), the Internet's
No. 1 music retailer, today announced plans to add 12 new songs from
seven artists to its Free Digital Downloads area over the next two weeks,
starting with an exclusive download from David Byrne's new album, In Spite of
Wishing & Wanting.
Less than a month ago, Amazon.com became the only major online music
retailer to dedicate part of its store to free, full-length song downloads
from established artists and major-label performers. The day the Free Digital
Downloads area was launched, four of the five top-selling albums on the site
were from artists with songs featured in that area. Amazon.com customers are
seizing the opportunity to try before they buy, and as of today have performed
over 300,000 song downloads. Following the success of the launch, Amazon.com
is adding to its current roster of artists, including Lyle Lovett, Widespread
Panic, Public Enemy, Randy Newman, and others, to bring the total tally of
songs available for free download to 38 and the total number of participating
artists to 22.
From now until August 15, music fans can download "Fear" from David
Byrne's new album, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, which was released today
and is available exclusively at Amazon.com. Within the next two weeks,
visitors to Amazon.com will also be able to download 11 new songs from
seven new artists. Included in the upcoming releases are two tracks from
Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons -- "Juanita," a
collaboration between Sheryl Crow and Emmylou Harris, and "Hot Burrito #1,"
from country rock stars the Mavericks. Additional tracks from Barry White,
Kristin Hersh, Indigenous, Jazz Is Dead, and Amazon.com Advantage artist Perla
Batalla will also be available for download.
"Our Free Digital Downloads area continues to be the best place for music
fans to download music from well-known artists," said Jennifer Cast, general
manager of Amazon.com's music store. "The success of this area proves that
free downloads are a great way for listeners to discover new music -- and a
superb way for labels to promote their artists and their CDs. We encourage
music lovers to visit our store often so that they can get the latest free
music downloads from major artists."
The complete roster of artists and songs in the Amazon.com free downloads
area is as follows (upcoming additions are denoted by an asterisk):
Artist Title
Cheap Trick Oh Caroline
Surrender (Remix)
Cowboy Junkies I Saw Your Shoes
River Waltz
Robert Cray All The Way
Let Me Know
Lyle Lovett If I Had A Boat
You Can't Resist It
Randy Newman I'm Dead
I Miss You
Pavement Spit On A Stranger
Public Enemy Do You Wanna Go Our Way??
Elliott Smith The Enemy In You
Waltz No. 2
The Stone Coyotes Church of the Falling Rain
My Little Runaway
Rufus Wainwright April Fools
Foolish Love
Cheryl Wheeler Sylvia Hotel
Beyond The Lights
Widespread Panic Bear's Gone Fishin'
Red Hot Mama
Kelly Willis Talk Like That
Time Has Told Me
* Perla Batalla Camino a Santiago
Morning Star
* David Byrne Fear
* Sheryl Crow &
Emmylou Harris Juanita
* Kristin Hersh Echo
Pretty Polly
* Indigenous Holdin' Out
Things We Do
* Jazz Is Dead Row Jimmy
Ship of Fools
* The Mavericks Hot Burrito #1
* Barry White Staying Power
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc., the Internet's No. 1 music, No. 1 video, and No. 1 book
retailer, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and
today offers Earth's Biggest Selection(TM) with free electronic greeting
cards, online auctions, and more than 4.7 million book, music-CD, video, DVD,
and computer-game titles. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most
customer-centric company, where people can find and discover anything they may
want to buy online. As part of its efforts to provide the best shopping
experience for customers, Amazon.com provides secure credit-card payment,
personalized recommendations, streamlined ordering through 1-Click(SM)
technology, and hassle-free auction bidding with Bid-Click(SM). Amazon.com
operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom
and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll
( www.planetall.com ), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder
service. It also operates the Internet Movie Database
( imdb.com ), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of
information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and
500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the
present. Amazon.com also operates LiveBid.com ( livebid.com ), the
sole provider of live-event auctions on the Internet.
In addition, Amazon.com has invested in leading Internet retailers that
are improving the lives of customers by making shopping easier and more
convenient: drugstore.com, a complete online provider of health, beauty,
wellness, and prescription-drug products, at www.drugstore.com; Pets.com, the
largest pet-supply company on the Internet and a valuable source of free
information for pet owners, at pets.com; HomeGrocer.com, the first
fully integrated Internet grocery-shopping and home-delivery service, with
operations in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, at homegrocer.com .
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating
history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential
fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, consumer trends,
competition, risks of system interruption, management of potential growth,
risks related to auction services, and risks of new business areas,
international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial
results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 1998 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
March 31, 1999.
Amazon.com, Amazon.com Auctions, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Internet Movie
Database, PlanetAll, Earth's Biggest Selection, Bid-Click, and 1-Click are
either registered trademarks or trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc., or its
affiliates. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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