FUHU Inc., leading the market in connecting people and content across their favorite destinations, has reported over ten million views in the first week of their Guns N’ Roses Spinlets widgets and urFooz cards of Axl Rose and Bumblefoot on MySpace, positioning the company as the dominant music widgets provider, facilitating extension of music brands and personal information across the social networking space.

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Chinese Democracyon amazon.co.uk

Spinlets are new information-rich music widgets that let users place favorite artists’ videos, links, pictures, MP3s, ring-tones, news and more on their own favorite sites (www.spinlets.com).

While urFooz are the newest in interactive portable profiles that, like a virtual baseball card , depict the user’s own avatar on one side and the user’s profile, favorite pictures, music, links and videos on the reverse (www.urfooz.com). urFooz gives users the ability to share information across their favorite social networks with a single virtual identity card.

Instant Hit

FUHU launched its Guns N’ Roses (GNR) “Chinese Democracy” Spinlets widgets featuring its Best Buy partnership and including the bands MP3s, photos, videos and more. The GNR Spinlets widgets have averaged over 1.4 million views per day and have been placed by users over 2,500 times on new websites. FUHU’s urFooz card of Axl Rose has racked up over 1,750,000 views in its first week on Guns N’ Roses MySpace.

“Widgets are transforming how music content is consumed, shared and distributed,” said FUHU CEO, Jim Mitchell. “We are excited to showcase our technology with this historic album release and we are proud to help use social networking to give fans access to more Guns N’ Roses content whenever they want it, wherever they want it. Our widgets come backed by powerful analytics which have allowed us to track their adoption to every corner of the world.”

FUHU is the leader in music widgets with a music catalog of more than 300 leading artists who have partnered with Spinlets and urFooz to exploit the value of extending their audiences to the social network widget landscape.

About FUHU

FUHU is a leading provider of Web 2.0 properties and applications that help to consolidate and organize a user’s “digital life” and make it universally accessible and shareable. The company’s portfolio of integrated products: Spinlets (www.spinlets.com ) and urFooz (www.urfooz.com ) can be distributed and accessed across multiple devices, including computers, mobile phones, and televisions. FUHU’s strong distribution network is free of ties to a single destination and promotes the top ecosystems on the web to embed FUHU’s products into their properties to acquire more customers and provide rich content discovery.

For more information about the company and details about their suite of products, please visit:

FUHU Official Website

I can’t believe it. Guns N’ Roses is finally releasing the long awaited ‘Chinese Democracy’ on November 23, 2008. MySpace is currently streaming the album in its entirety – which I’m listening to now. Axl sounds good…at times great and sometimes not so good…and the band is tight – with some excellent guitar solos. Even if you’re just mildly curious, it’s worth checking out. There’s certainly a mixed bag of music, and I’ve found myself listening to some of the songs more than once to get a better feel for them.

Guns N’ Roses on amazon.com

Chinese Democracyon amazon.co.uk

Opening track “Chinese Democracy” has a cool intro, and rocks out with cool vocals – Axl sounds great, using the lower register of his voice.

The vocals are questionable on “Better”.

There’s a mix of the old, familiar “Axl voice” from the days of ‘Appetite for Destruction’ and ‘Use Your Illusion’ throughout ‘Chinese Democracy’, and a more… theatrical … voice, like on piano based “Street of Dreams” and “This I Love” – which includes a great guitar solo, and dare I say – a harp? Are they the new “November Rain”? Wow – “If The World” grooves with a fat bass and a mix of funk, rock, contemporary jazz feel, an electric Santana/Slash-like guitar solo, an acoustic spanish-like acoustic guitar solo, and a soulful, high pitched vocal delivery by Axl. Hmmm. Different. I’m undecided on this one. There’s A LOT going on here. I *think* it could grow on me.

“Scraped” is a strong rock track. It has that old school Guns N’ Roses feel with catchy backing vocals. At times, “Sorry” is somewhat reminiscent of Pink Floyd, with its dark mood and lyrics. I like the laid back groove – with spanish style acoustic guitar subtly played throughout, and a beautiful electric guitar solo. Not sure about the vocal delivery during the first verse, but sounds much better as the song goes on. There’s even some whistling tucked back in the mix toward the end of the song, which brings back memories of “Patience”, however the song sounds nothing like it. This could be another grower. Actually the more I listen to it, the more I like it – and – according to information on Wikipedia, former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, a longtime friend and supporter of Axl Rose, recorded backing vocals on “Sorry” at Electric Lady Studios, which is interesting, considering I’m a huge Jimi Hendrix fan (Electric Lady Studios was created by Hendrix).

I’m sure for those who sit down with this album and really take it all in, there will be a good mix of opinions regarding favorite and least favorite tracks. It certainly makes for good, maybe even heated, discussion, especially amongst old school Guns N’ Roses fans.

The entire album probably won’t be streaming on MySpace for long, so this is a great way to preview the album before you buy – if you decide to buy, that is.

It’s hard to believe that ‘Chinese Democracy’ is actually released. Whether it’s any good or not, could this have been the most anticipated album in the history of rock music? Has the fire burned out or has it been worth the wait?

Chinese Democracy Track Listing:

1. Chinese Democracy
2. Shackler’s Revenge
3. Better
4. Street Of Dreams
5. If The World
6. There Was A Time
7. Catcher N’ The Rye
8. Scraped
9. Riad N’ The Bedouins
10. Sorry
11. I.R.S.
12. Madagascar
13. This I Love
14. Prostitute

Guns N’ Roses MySpace

Guns N’ Roses Official Website

By: Jenny May

I’ve mentioned before on Band Weblogs that my first and one of my best concert experiences was at a Guns N’ Roses and Brian May concert back in the 90’s. It’s also no secret how I feel about Slash so naturally I’m going to have some interest in what Axl Rose gets up to in the music world.

I wouldn’t say that I’ve been sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to hear what the fuss is all about with the new Guns N’ Roses/Axl Chinese Democracy album that has been taking so long to release – but like I said, I do have some interest in it.

Surprisingly, Rolling Stone has links to each “leaked” track posted on the MetalSucks blog. So…are the leaked tracks actually market research being put on by the record company to find out public reaction to certain tracks pre-album release or were the tracks actually leaked?

Either way, for the curious who want to listen to the Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy tracks while they’re still up, you can find the links to the leaked mp3s here on MetalSucks.net.

By: Jenny May