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Comverse and BMG Europe today announced an agreement for BMG to supply both international & local music content for Comverse’s VoiCD advanced mobile music solution. This agreement represents the collaboration of two leading players in their respective industries, to build a complete and comprehensive music solution that will provide premium value to telecom service providers. Visit Comverse at the Mobile Entertainment Event in London on April 9-10, 2002, Booths 7 & 9. This cooperation combines the technology and music worlds and opens a new distribution channel for the music industry. BMG is one of the first of the major labels… Read more »

Sony announced that it is an associate sponsor of the first-ever Mountain Dew Ice Village in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 8-24, 2002. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, the Ice Village offers excitement to consumers of all ages during the entire 17 days of the Olympics. The Mountain Dew Ice Village is an action sports and music festival featuring more than 150 of the world’s best athletes from skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, Moto-X as well as a stellar line-up of musical performances from acts such as Cheap Trick, Cake, and George Clinton and P Funk AllStars. Fans… Read more »

An outdoor Beach Boys concert before thousands Saturday launched a series of musical concerts intended to entertain visitors and athletes at the Olympic Games. “Salt Lake City has been a tradition for the Beach Boys,” founding member Mike Love said in an interview with Reuters prior to the concert. Love, now 60, wrote the lyrics to the band’s first song, ‘Surfin’, released in 1961 and followed that by co-authoring eleven U.S. top 10 singles with cousin Brian Wilson. Crowds endured long lines, cold temperatures and laborious security checks before entering Washington Square where the City government complex is housed and… Read more »

Dance music maestro Moby is slated to premiere a song from his upcoming album, 18, at this year’s Winter Olympic Games, taking place next month in Salt Lake City, Utah. On the heels of the closing ceremonies on February 24, the chrome-domed DJ will kick off the Concert for the Athletes at Olympic Park by debuting “In My Heart,” according to his publicist. That song will appear on the follow-up to 1999’s Play, which is expected to drop in May. Other songs set for the LP include “Jam for the Ladies,” which features guest vocalists Angie Stone and MC Lyte,… Read more »

And we thought A.J. was the bad boy: Squeaky clean Backstreet Boy Nick Carter was arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly disobeying a cop’s orders to leave a Tampa, Florida, nightclub. The blond, 21-year-old singer (and youngest Boy of the Backstreet) has been charged with a misdemeanor count of resisting or opposing a law enforcement officer without violence. Carter was cuffed and placed in a squad car, but was later released on his own recognizance, police say. He’s due in court March 4. Police pulled up to the Pop City nightclub late Tuesday night after a fight reportedly broke out,… Read more »

The world’s largest record company will be the first of the major labels to release a copy-protected CD in the United States, signaling a new chapter in the industry’s efforts to stem music piracy. When Universal Music Group on Tuesday releases the soundtrack, “Fast & Furious – More Music,” consumers won’t be able to copy the music onto another CD or use their PCs to “rip” tracks in digital MP3 format. The copy-protection technology will also render the disc unplayable on Macintosh computers, DVD players and game consoles, such as Sony’s PlayStation 2. It might not even play in some… Read more »

Columbia Records will release The Concert For New York City – a 2-CD collection documenting the historic all-star concert event held to benefit those in need affected by the World Trade Center tragedy. The Concert For New York City album will be released on Tuesday, November 27. DVD and VHS versions will be available thereafter. “The Concert For New York City” took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. Produced by VH1, Cablevision, Miramax and AOL, the concert was a celebration of the strength of New York and a thank you to the heroic firefighters, police officers and… Read more »

The back-to-back debut of new video game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo is expected to fuel strong sales of home entertainment goods as jittery Americans opt to spend more time at home after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, analysts said. They said the launch of Microsoft Corp’s Xbox on Thursday and that of Nintendo Co. Ltd’s GameCube – three days later – could even help lift third and fourth-quarter profits for some of the nation’s top consumer electronics stores. The big boost, the analysts said, will also come on a jump in customer traffic to stores… Read more »

Jermaine Dupri says fame has not gone to his protégé Lil’ Bow Wow’s head. On the contrary, in a couple of weeks the rhyming teen titan will be letting everyone know just how grateful he is for his success when he releases “Thank You,” the first single off his Doggy Bag album. “It’s a song directed to the fans,” Dupri said Wednesday from his Atlanta studio. “The song is thanking everybody, not just the fans. [He’s thanking the] mom-and-pop retail stores, just everybody who had a hand in helping Bow sell 3 million records.” The producer said he’s been working… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys release their first-ever greatest-hits package, titled The Hits: Chapter One, on Tuesday (October 30). The 13-song collection includes the group’s new single “Drowning” and also comprises songs from the group’s 1996 album Backstreet Boys, 1999’s Millennium, and last year’s Black & Blue. In conjunction with the album release, the group will also release a VHS/DVD video titled The Video Hits: Chapter One on November 6. Singer Brian Littrell revealed that the Backstreet Boys had little trouble when it came time to select their favorite songs. “You know, we always agree on what the best song is for… Read more »