After a very competitive, but also very collaborative contest, we are excited to announce the winners of the Mariah Carey Remix Contest.

Fans were challenged to create a remix of “I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time” that was to be judged on originality, creativity, and marketability – and man did they ever.

Amongst over 1,200 submissions, The Progressions have won first place – $5,000 – and will be featured on MariahCarey.com, IslandRecords.com, and Mariah’s MySpace page.

They are also listed as Mariah’s “top friend” on MySpace for a month!

The runner up, Sevan O. receives a Digidesign MBox2.

Check out the site to see all of the other Honorable Mentions:

Mariah Carey Remix Contest on Indaba Music

About Indaba Music

Need a band? Gather ’round the Web…

Indaba Music (www.IndabaMusic.com) is a magical place… a virtual recording studio/café where musicians can gather, collaborate and create music together, regardless of their geographic location. Home to both professional and amateur musicians – including some Grammy award-winning producers – the site offers tools for uploading, editing and mixing tracks, as well as rich media and blogging tools that allow artists to communicate with each other and with their fans. For fans, Indaba offers unprecedented access to artists and their creative process, enabling them to engage with the artist in creative ways.

As Web 2.0 continues to deliver tools and widgets for artists, Indaba Music gives bands and independent musicians a platform to record an album without ever being in the same room with their fellow musicians. Indaba’s in-browser cache allows one to mix and edit up to 12 tracks in-browser with no software downloads. Indaba allows artists to create both private and public sessions, and artists can license tracks using a variety of Creative Commons licenses, or reserve all rights. Other tech highlights include an advanced server-side audio processing system and Power artist search engines.

Press:

“Indaba is not unlike walking through a giant rehearsal space, where you can find the best gigs just by strolling past the other rooms and eavesdropping.” – Pitchfork

“The long-established rules of music production are being rewritten, according to a now-familiar refrain.” – LA Times

“Until recently, there was no easy way for the amateur musician to collaborate cheaply, easily and in an open online environment. However, a new crop of startups (Indaba) are changing that with efforts to capitalize on open social networking, as a way to bring online music collaboration to the masses”. – Wired

Mariah Carey Official Website
Mariah Carey MySpace

Enjoying one of 2008’s fastest on-line groundswells, following the digital release of its first single, Virgin Records singer-songwriter/guitarist Tristan Prettyman’s second album ‘Hello’ has entered the Billboard Top 200 sales chart at No. 27. This marks a career high in both chart position and weekly sales for Tristan.

The rapturously romantic first single and video, “Madly,” has proven to be an instant deal-closer for both physical and digital sales of the full album.

Driven by exposure of “Madly” as the iTunes Single of the Week, the complete ‘Hello’ album download immediately spiked to the No. 2 position in overall iTunes album sales, and has stayed there ever since, rubbing shoulders with newly-released heavy hitters by Mariah Carey and Leona Lewis, and such long-term hits as the Juno film soundtrack. 84% of first-week album sales occurred in full-album downloads on iTunes alone. At the same time, Tristan Prettyman’s 2005 Virgin Records debut album ‘twentythree’ also appeared – for the first time – in the iTunes album Top 50, coat-tailed impressively by the new album.

The irresistible consistency of ‘Hello’ was pointed out in a B+ Entertainment Weekly review that praised Prettyman’s “brisk vocals on “Echo”…the Southern-laced “A Little Bit” and the slow-burning “California Girl,” also pointing out “In Bloom” as a “lushly orchestrated ballad that could’ve been a lost track from Fiona Apple’s Tidal” and summing up Tristan’s talent as “maturing by the minute.” The overwhelming on-line reaction to Tristan’s album puts her in the company of such recent singer-songwriter breakthrough artists as Colbie Caillat and Sara Bareilles.

Tristan will appear on the cover of Foam Magazine (on stands May 15th, 2008) and will be profiled on the television entertainment magazine program Extra in the same month.

Tristan Prettyman continues to play headline dates through the end of April and makes a five-date swing through Japan in mid-May. Prettyman is also looking forward to a unique series of volunteer beach cleanup and restoration events between May and August 2008, sponsored by the Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project, in partnership with the Surfrider Foundation.

For more information go to:

Tristan Prettyman Myspace
Tristan Prettyman

Leon Jackson, the 2007 winner of The X Factor, appeared on GMTV’s LK Today this morning. Lorraine Kelly talked to Leon about his win last Saturday night December 15th, his nerves throughout the show and the fact that he had just started singing publicly in January of this year. Karaoke was his schtick before his appearance on the show, and after being crowned the winner, Leon is now a part of X Factor history.

Leon’s new single, a cover of the Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey hit song “When You Believe”, is now available for download and will be in stores December 19th, 2007 on Sony BMG. We’ll have to wait and see if it will make UK Christmas #1.

He sang “When You Believe” on LK Today along with a choir, and after performing on The X Factor Saturday night and probably getting little sleep, he sounded pretty good for a Monday morning. I like the tone of his voice, and at times it reminds me a bit of Jamie Cullum. Even though Leon, who hails from Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland, is only 18 years old and hasn’t had much experience performing in public, he seems a natural on stage.

With Dannii Minogue as his mentor during The X Factor (UK series 4), it seemed apropos that he would sing a duet with her sister Kylie on the night of his win. They sang her hit, “Better The Devil You Know”. I wonder if that will ever be released as a single?

Last year the winner was Leona – this year, Leon!

Watch Leon Jackson videos on YouTube

The X Factor UK YouTube Channel

Leon Jackson – “When You Believe” on amazon.co.uk

The X Factor Official Website

For interviews, blog, videos, tour dates and more information, go to:

Leon Jackson Official Website

By: Jenny May – Band Weblogs