MusicGiants Press Release
MUSICGIANTS ADDS MORE DRM-FREE CONTENT TO ITS HD MEDIASTORE
The world’s only high-definition music service further enhances its content offerings for media and music servers.
Las Vegas – CES 2008 – January 7 – 10, 2008 – Grand Lobby GL-5
MusicGiants, the source for HD entertainment, has expanded its already extensive content offerings with the signing of five new content providers: KOCH Entertainment, Alligator, FestivaLink, GoDigital and Zojak Worldwide. These new additions bring over 6,000 new DRM-Free albums to the MusicGiants HD MediaStore.
KOCH Entertainment, the leading and fastest-growing independent music company in North America, encompasses record and video labels as well as distribution companies in the U.S. and Canada. KOCH Entertainment is the market leader among independent distributors and its record labels had the largest number of Billboard-charting albums among independents last year. KOCH Entertainment’s label roster includes Koch Records (home of artists such as DJ Khaled, Jim Jones, Charlie Daniels and Sinead O’Connor.), Equity Music Group (the label of platinum-selling country act Little Big Town, Clint Black and Kevin Fowler), Silva Screen Records, Red House Records, Signature Sounds, Bodog Music, Bar None, Babygrande Records and many others.
With a catalog of over 240 titles, Alligator Records is the largest independent blues label in the world. Its recordings have won more awards than any other contemporary blues label, including a total of 34 NOW IT'S 35 Grammy© nominations (two wins), 18 Indie Awards from the Association For Independent Music (AFIM) and three Grand Prix du Disque awards. Alligator and its artists have won a total of 70 W.C. Handy Blues Music Awards, the blues community’s highest honor. Alligator’s recordings consistently top many critics’ “Best Of” lists and readers’ polls and their artists often find themselves on national television and radio. Alligator prides itself as being the label that exposes the next generation of blues artists and their music to the next generation of blues fans.
FestivaLink is a digital-only label specializing in high-quality live releases sourced from prestigious roots music festivals and venues. FestivaLink set out to raise the level of audio quality for live music downloads, long the province of amateur tapers. Working with the Newport Folk Festival, MerleFest, and the Taos Solar Music Festival among others, FestivaLink has amassed an exclusive catalog of over 100 full-performance releases, many featuring one-time-only combinations of artists in jam configurations. Among FestivaLink’s most popular releases are the only recording of the acclaimed “Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway,” a musical revue of Woody Guthrie’s songs and writings, and the first recording made by folk blues legend David Bromberg after nearly 20 years away from touring and recording.
The GoDigital Music Group, which encompasses GoDigital, UrbanDigital and E-Klectrik Music is a “next-generation” record label and content distributor. The label group specializes in incubating and developing artists and provides world class digital distribution for established artists and labels. GoDigital carries recordings from top artists like Master P, Romeo and Tom Langford.
Zojak World Wide focuses on new and classic Reggae, with many of their labels coming from Jamaica. A full service distributor, Zojak is involved in every step of the way, from promotion, to digital distribution, to representation and sound production. Top artists in the Zojak family include Dawn Penn, Luciano, Sly & Robbie, Bounty Killer, Teflon, and Mr. Vegas.
These five content providers join companies such as Concord Music Group, EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Razor and Tie, Naxos and Warner Music Group. With the added DRM-Free albums, MusicGiants has over 100,000 DRM-Free tracks on 9,000 albums. MusicGiants boasts over 630,000 total tracks on its HD MediaStore.
MusicGiants’ use of the WMA lossless format provides up to seven times the sound quality of any other music service. It also offers Super HD downloads that play in Windows Media Player at rates of up to 11,000 kbps.
Offerings will be available 1st quarter of 2008 for download from MusicGiants. Album prices vary.
Visit and access the MusicGiants HD MediaStore through Windows Media Player 11 or at www.musicgiants.com.
MusicGiants delivers high definition and premium entertainment from all of the giants of the industry right into customers’ home theaters. Our MG media store is integrated into many of the top media servers for convenient delivery of premium content. MusicGiants is the perfect companion for home entertainment systems and anywhere else that high quality content matters. For more information on MusicGiants visit www.MusicGiants.com.
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