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LONDON, 28 FEBRUARY 2007 -- EMI Music, one of the world's leading digital music companies, has completed a wide-ranging European agreement with online social music community Last.fm to make music from EMI artists available to Last.fm users.
Last.fm has become a social music phenomenon thanks to its digital music service which tracks the musical tastes of its users, makes personal recommendations and encourages members to share their musical tastes with friends, fans of similar genres and artists, or the wider community as a whole.
The agreement enables members of the Last.fm community to listen to music from EMI artists including Lily Allen, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Norah Jones, Kylie Minogue, 30 Seconds To Mars, KT Tunstall, Keith Urban and Robbie Williams; Bebe and Amaral from Spain; Vasco Rossi and Tiziano Ferro from Italy; Germany’s LaFee and Herbert Grönemeyer; and Diam’s and Renaud from France.
EMI Music global head of digital Barney Wragg said, "By fusing digital music with the social networking phenomenon, Last.fm have created an easy to use service that allows fans to listen to music that they already love, and find new artists through recommendations from fellow users. The ability to discover music through social interaction on the service, coupled with their seamless integration of opportunities to purchase or subscribe, makes this agreement of huge value to EMI and our artists.”
Felix Miller, CEO of Last.fm said, "We are extremely excited to embark on this partnership with EMI, whose repertoire has consistently been one of the most popular and most requested on our social music network. We are looking forward to explore new ways to engage music fans with the gems of EMI's extensive back catalogue as well as finding audiences for new, up and coming acts and releases.”
Last.fm offers music fans the ability to listen to music through internet radio, with community-based recommendations encouraging users to sample music by new artists. Consumers are also given the opportunity to click a button to purchase music from an artist, or to personalise their playlist with more music from that artist.
Last.fm's radio users can choose to listen to either a free custom radio service, or pay for a premium subscription to listen to personalised music tailored to their music taste.
The company's "scrobbling" technology enables Last.fm to personalise a user’s entire experience on the basis of their previous music listening habits on media players such as iTunes.
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Enquiries:
For EMI Music:
Amanda Conroy +44 207 795 7529
Dylan Jones +44 207 795 7335
For Last.fm:
Christian Ward (Monument PR) +44 208 392 2062
June Parina (Sparkpr) +1 415 321 1872
About EMI Music
EMI is one of the world's largest music companies, operating in 50 countries. Its EMI Music division represents artists including Lily Allen, The Beatles, Bebe, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae, Diam's, Tiziano Ferro, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Gorillaz, Utada Hikaru, Norah Jones, Lenny Kravitz, LaFee, Letoya, Mims, Kylie Minogue, 30 Seconds To Mars, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, KT Tunstall, Keith Urban, RBD and Robbie Williams. Its record labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMI Televisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin. For further information on EMI, please visit: www.emigroup.com.
About Last.fm
Founded in 2002 in London, Last.fm is the online, social music revolution that connects people with music and artists with listeners. By joining the Last.fm community, music fans can choose to share their music preferences by linking their media player to the Last.fm database. This database is populated continually with over 500 million monthly track submissions from Last.fm music fans. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs, artists, local concerts and even other members based on their musical tastes. Learn more about Last.fm at www.last.fm. |