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To: Jules who wrote (39102)	1/5/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: Stevko F.	Respond to of 119973

NAVR NEWS J-BIRD RECORDS AND CDNOW ENTER CUSTOM CD LICENSE AGREEMENT WILTON, Conn., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- J-Bird Records (OTC Bulletin Board: JBRD), the music industry's first web-based record label, announced a licensing agreement with CDnow (Nasdaq: CDNW), the Internet's number one music store, making J-Bird's catalog of over 250 artists available for custom CDs. Under the agreement, consumers making custom CDs at CDnow's Custom Shop (cdnow.com) will be able to select their favorite songs by J-Bird artists, along with songs licensed from other record labels. J-Bird is the home of multi-platinum recording artists, The Guess Who and Billy Squier, world-renowned vocal group Rockapella, former Rusted Root vocalist Jenn Wertz, hitmaker Andrew Gold, alternative rockers Impulse Ride and hip hop group A.I.F. J-Bird's catalog roster is expected to be available for custom CDs at CDnow in early 1999. "CDnow's Custom Shop presents us with an incredible vehicle to showcase to the music industry and to consumers worldwide the tremendous talent on the J-Bird roster," said Darren Nowicki, Director of A&R/Artist Development for J-Bird Records. "J-Bird and CDnow share a deep commitment to the Web as a place to sell catalog, to promote emerging artists, and to develop new musical groups. By combining J-Bird's catalog and CDnow's custom CD technology, we move closer to our common vision," commented CDnow Director of Digital Media Ted Hooban. About J-Bird J-Bird Records was launched as the music industry's first WWW recording label and was founded by Jay Barbieri in October 1996. Since then, the label has gone public and has seen its catalogue swell to more than 250 titles in that time. In addition, J-Bird Records is represented in more than 50,000 retail accounts through the Navarre Corporation (Nasdaq: NAVR), the industry's leading distributor of independent record labels across the country. About CDnow CDnow, Inc. (www.cdnow.com), the Internet's number one music store, offers more than 350,000 music related items -- ten times the size of the average music store. Founded in 1994 by twin brothers Jason and Matthew Olim, CDnow is building a better music store through intelligent album recommendations, custom CDs, music samples, a vast library of reviews and features from top music writers and exclusive editorial content from Rolling Stone Network, MTV/VH1 and CMJ New Music Monthly. CDnow is the premier online music store on Yahoo!, Lycos, Lycos-Bertelsmann, Webcrawler, Tripod, Geocities, MTV/VH1 and Rolling Stone Network. SOURCE J-Bird Records