News

New stores: Thumbplay, Youload, muz.ru
^{(August 27, 2010)}

The following stores have been added to our partner list and will sell products from REBEAT Digital from now on:

	Thumbplay (www.thumbplay.com) US store Thumbplay is specialized in streaming services for Smartphones and PCs/Macs, offering more than 8 million tracks, upward tendency. Note: Thumbplay is currently only available for customers from the USA.
	Youload (www.youload.de) The download store for digital content of all kind, offering a varied assortment with more than 2.5 million products.
	Muz.ru (www.muz.ru) Muz.ru is the top address for digital music in Russia and one of the first top priorities of REBEAT Digital in Eastern Europe - more shops to be confirmed!

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Bands for Popkomm showcases confirmed
^{(August 24, 2010)}

The bands playing at this year’s music trade fair Popkomm have been confirmed:
All in all 59 top-class artists from all over the world will make the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin a huge stage from September 8th to 10th 2010. All confirmed acts will receive a free full version of the REBEAT Digital distribution software to promote and sell their music digitally worldwide – fast and easy.

More information about the lineup is available now at http://popkommlive.com.

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Nine REBEAT Digital artists to battle for the Amadeus Award!
^{(July 2, 2010)}

All in all nine (!) artists, whose music is distributed worldwide through REBEAT Digital, have been nominated for this year’s Austrian music award Amadeus. Some of them even several times! The artists and nominations are as follows:


Album of the Year
* Skero „Memoiren eines Riesen“ (Tontraeger Records) 

Song of the Year
* Boon „Right Now“ (Noisehead Records)
* Skero feat. Joyce Muniz „Kabinenparty“ (Tontraeger Records) 

Artist of the Year Alternative
* Bauchklang (UH4 Music)
* Der Nino aus Wien (Problembär Records) 

Artist of the Year Hard & Heavy
* Days Of Loss (Terrasound Records)
* Boon (Noisehead Records) 

Artist of the Year HipHop/R 'n' B
* Skero (Tontraeger Records)
* Sua Kaan (Sua Kaan Music) 

Artist of the Year Jazz/World/Blues
* Ernst Molden (monkey.music)
* Hans Theessink (Blue Groove) 

Artist of the Year Schlager
* Andy Borg (VM Records/MCP)

The favorites of each category can be voted at www.amadeusawards.at/voting from now on. Voting is possible once a week. The celebration of the 11th Amadeus Awards will take place on September 16th 2010 at Stadthalle Vienna.

The Amadeus Award is the most popular and important music award in Austria. Presented every year since 2000, it honors artists having been successful in Austria in diverse categories.

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REBEAT Digital to cooperate with Popkomm
^{(June 25, 2010)}

The REBEAT Digital GmbH has partnered with the Popkomm GmbH: All bands playing at live events during this year’s music trade fair Popkomm will receive a free copy of the REBEAT Digital distribution software, allowing them to sell their music in more than 300 download shops worldwide.
Please find further information in our press release  (pdf, 114kB).

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Straight to Top 10 with REBEAT Digital!
^{(May 21, 2010)}

MC Skero‘s “Kabinenparty“ made it! After continuously good positions within the Austrian single charts, the hit off album “Memoiren eines Riesen” has jumped from # 16 to # 9 this week, breaking the Top 10 for the very first time! No physical CD single, no marketing or promotion campaign – accomplished just by mouth-to-mouth propaganda and the digital release through REBEAT Digital!



More chart notations:

Single-Charts iTunes Austria: # 8

HipHop & R’n’B-Charts Musicload Austria: # 8

HipHop & Rap-Charts Amazon: # 26

Thus another proof that it is possible for every musician to break the charts with a few mouse clicks straight from the home computer!

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Three artists in the single charts!
^{(March 31, 2010)}

REBEAT Digital is extremely proud to welcome three artists at once in the Top 50 of the official Austrian single charts
this week:

SKERO FEAT. JOYCE MUNIZ – “Kabinenparty“
The hit from the first solo album “Memoiren eines Riesen” of MC Skero, known through Amadeus awarded HipHop band Texta.
Strong performance at # 32
More information at the REBEAT Artist Camp


DJ MNS VS. E-MAXX – “Sempre Sempre“
The classic of Albano and Romina Power in a thrilling new dance outfit.
Party on at # 37
More information at the REBEAT Artist Camp




THE MONROES – “Such A Happy Day“
Party Rock’n’Roll at its best – put in, turn on and shake it!
From zero directly to # 42
More information at the REBEAT Artist Camp



All three chart breakers are available for our media partners for digital sampling through the REBEAT Digital Media Promotion Service (MPS). Please visit http://en.rebeat.com/mps.html for more information about the MPS.

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REBEAT Digital Widgets released
^{(February 23, 2010)}

Use the Widgets of the REBEAT Digital software to easily publish all important information about your product on your website or social network profile, including an audioplayer for prelistening purposes! You can design the information about your product (font family, font color, background color) at will, making it fit to the design of your website.

Note: This feature is currently only available for the Windows version of REBEAT Digital.

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New download stores
^{(Januar 27, 2010)}

Two new download stores have been added to our partner list:

LimeWire (www.store.limewire.com)
US shop LimeWire provides music lovers with songs from all genres - you can choose between downloads and special subscription services. Note: LimeWire is currently available for US customers only.

Music Is Here (www.musicishere.com)
Specialized in independent music and well-resourced: If you buy music at Music Is Here you can choose from a wide range of formats. Songs can be purchased as MP3, MPEG4 - AAC, MPC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA and FLAC.

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