May 23, 2006
Irish singer to launch mobile album
A singer from Kilkenny (Ireland) is launching an entire album exclusively on a mobile phone.
Singer-songwriter Majella Murphy has preloaded her new album "Brave New World" on the Sony Ericsson Z530i available exclusively from O2 Ireland.
The album, which includes three live acoustic tracks will not go on general digital release until July 2006. [via SiliconRepublic]
This is not really the first time an album is released excusively on a mobile phone. Other artists have pre-relased their albums as early as 2003. In June 2003, Ricky Martin released his new album in South Korea, on cellphones, six days before the worldwide release.
In April 2004, the German music group "SUPER SMART" released its complete album "Panda Babies" as polyphonic mobile phone ringtones with integrated voices and instruments only - and not on traditional media like CD or vinyl.
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-- Slum Village To Pre-Release New Album To Mobile Users - Slum Village announced that the album will be available to mobile phone users, two weeks prior to the album street date release.
-- New Fugees album exclusively available through VCast - Music from the new Fugees album will be made available exclusively through Verizon's new VCast music service... While record labels have made a standard practice of debuting singles as ringtones, this is the first time that studio masters to an unreleased album debuted exclusively via a wireless full-song music download service.
-- Ricky Martin's Album Debuted on Cellphones in S Korea - "The new Ricky Martin album, released on Sony Music, was debuted not in US or Puerto Rico, but in South Korea, on cellphones. On May 13, 2003, six days before the release worldwide.
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