MP3.com Passes Milestone With 10 Million Registered Members
PR Newswire - February 24, 2000 20:19
Online Music Service Provider's Email Database Grows Exponentially Since Launch One Year Ago
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- MP3.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MPPP), the premier online music service provider (MSP), today announced that its database of members registered by email address has grown to more than 10 million since the site was launched a year ago in February 1999.
"We are very excited and proud to have reached 10 million consumers in the past year," said Michael Robertson, chairman and chief executive officer of MP3.com. "More and more people are coming to our site to learn about and use all of the innovative music services we provide."
Visitors who register with MP3.com receive a number of exclusive free benefits. Among them are:
-- Use of Beam-it(TM) and Instant Listening(TM) services, which allow consumers to access their CD collection on the Internet and instantly receive music purchased from online retailers
-- The ability to create their own Station pages--music web pages where consumers, fans, industry professionals and artists can share songs from the entire MP3.com music database of more than 300,000 files; voice their opinions in text and HTML; and create communities of like- minded fans
-- Up to 50MB of online storage space for MP3 music and other files in private, web-based folders on i-drive. The music can be ordered into playlists that can be heard on any PC with Internet access and an MP3 player
-- Photo storage space on Zing.com, a site than enables anyone to share photos with others on the web
-- Regular email and HTML newsletters packed with song recommendations, special offers and discounts for items such as hardware, software and portable MP3 players
-- MP3.com Music Greetings, the first of their kind on the Internet, which let visitors add full-length MP3 songs to personalized virtual cards
-- Message boards where artists and fans can exchange thoughts and gather information on numerous subjects of interest to the MP3 community. These include legal issues, band promotion, hardware, software, musical instruments and using MP3.com site tools and features
-- Regularly updated e-zines that cover genres such as pop/rock, punk/hardcore/ska, electronic, alternative, metal, hip hop/rap and the women of MP3.com
-- A Go Local music finder that helps fans zero in on information on their region's local music scene by genre, plus cross-referencing with each artist's calendar and notes to find appearances in their in their neighborhoods
"As a constantly evolving MSP, we're not resting on our laurels. We continue to add innovative services and features every week that are designed to keep fans and musicians coming back for more," Robertson said.
More than 50,000 bands have made their music freely available on MP3.com in more than 300,000 downloadable songs and audio files -- the world's largest collection of free digital music on the Internet.
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Some aggregate data, but I wanted to see January 2000 numbers. Awfully cheap.
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