mpGreek and Warner Music Greece team up to launch 'myStage Music Contest'
June 14, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
New York, June 14th , 2007 / / mpGreek®, the global leader in Greek digital music services has joined forces with Warner Music Greece to launch a world wide – Greek music competition for Recording Contract with Warner Music called “myStage Music Contest”. Unsigned artists from Greece and Abroad will be contesting for the ultimate prize of getting a chance of having a single or album release with all production, marketing, video Clips and PR costs included.MyStage is the newest service of mpGreek’s network. MyStage is a music and entertainment community for the Greek internet space. It offers music, videos, blogs, photos, and profiles for Greek users and artists. Independent Greek musicians can use the website to promote their work which could be a single track, whole album, video clip, lyrics etc. Regular mpGreek users (non-musicians) can put their interests in their profile, and they may also add information about themselves. In less than a month there have been more than 750 artists and users who have signed up via a VIP exclusive invite.
The myStage Artist Contest is the first internet Contest in Greece and allows Artists to compete by popularity based on the votes, visits and ratings of the rest of the internet users. Warner Music Greece will provide staff and marketing resources as well as a recording contract to be signed at the end of the contest.
Mr. Gerasimos Mariatos , General Manager, of Warner Music Greece commented: “Although music speaks the language of freedom sometimes faces obstacles that block the access to a lot of people. Warner Music considers internet space as a valuable tool to create and spread out music. We are confident that mpGreek and its new service “MyStage” is the most suitable environment for the purpose of MyStage Music Contest and it will generate the outmost results as mpGreek is our web market leader with sound knowledge and expertise. Warner’s venture with mpGreek/myStage for this music contest will create opportunities to talented & innovative people to join our … “stage”
"mpGreek has more than 650,000 visits per month from users who are interested in buying or listening to music. Now we offer new artists a real chance to get be heard by the people who buy music” says Alex Kombogiannis , Director of mpGreek. “Warner Music is a multinational Record Label with a keen eye for the next big thing. We are excited to partner with Warner Music Greece for this fantastic opportunity", “The contest winner will help us bring breakthrough New Greek music to a worldwide audience."
Dates and official Rules will soon become available.
For a preview go to www.mpGreek.com/mystage.
About Greased Networks, Inc.
Greased Networks is a leading technology firm at the forefront of Greek music downloads with its service mpGreek. mpGreek has long been recognized as one of the largest providers of Greek digital music content in addition to being one of the largest Greek online music stores over all since February of 2005.
About Warner Music Greece
Warner Music Greece operates in the Greek market since 1979, representing a vast catalogue of most important Artists worldwide with a dynamic presence in the digital environment. Regarding local repertoire, Warner Music Greece is under the process of full digitization of its Greek catalogue and making it available to mpGreek music service.
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