Artist’ Albums, Including Coldplay, Katy Perry, Leona Lewis, Rihanna and Robin Thicke will be Available on High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 slotMusic™ Cards at Best Buy® and Wal-Mart

This is a BIG deal – it’s the first time the major labels and retailers have unanimously embraced a new physical format in over 25 years. These cards play in 70 million phones in the US and a billion devices worldwide. Imagine if there were that many CD players in 1982…

Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Milpitas, CA – The world’s four largest music companies and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading seller of MP3 players and flash memory cards in the United States, unveiled the full list of artists joining the inaugural slotMusic line-up.

Starting this week, music fans can purchase slotMusic cards—microSD™ cards with pre-loaded, high quality, DRM-free MP3 music—featuring new release albums from favorite artists like Coldplay, Katy Perry, Leona Lewis, Rihanna and Robin Thicke and catalog titles from Elvis, Abba and more.

Within days of shipping, slotMusic cards will arrive on the shelves of Best Buy and Wal-Mart in the United States, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $14.99.

slotMusic makes today’s hottest music available on interoperable microSD cards that let fans instantly plug and play albums into their microSD slot-enabled mobile phones, portable media players, computers, and an increasing number of car stereos.

More than just your typical music albums or single downloads, slotMusic cards boast 1GB1 (gigabyte) of capacity to offer artists a compelling new way to express themselves to their fans. In addition to songs, slotMusic cards may hold liner notes, album art, videos and other creative content that an artist may choose.

Grammy™-winning recording artist Robin Thicke, is utilizing the additional space on his card to add exclusive videos, behind the scenes footage and photos, personally chosen by Thicke to share with his fans.

Dozens of popular artists from EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group are making their debut on slotMusic cards in time for the holidays, including:

* ABBA
* Chris Brown
* Coldplay
* Connie Talbot
* Daughtry
* Don’t Quit Fitness Bundle
* Elvis Presley
* Five Finger Death Punch
* Jimi Hendrix
* Jimmy Buffet
* Katy Perry
* Keane
* Kelly Clarkson
* Kiss
* Leona Lewis
* Lynyrd Skynyrd
* Metro Station
* MIA
* Nelly
* New Kids On the Block
* Ne-Yo
* Nickelback
* Pussycat Dolls
* Rihanna
* Rise Against
* Robin Thicke
* Saving Abel
* Shwayze
* Solange
* Sugarland
* Tim McGraw
* Toby Keith
* Usher
* Weezer
* Young Jeezy

Consumers can expect additional releases from other artists before the end of 2008. slotMusic has an unparalleled, pre-existing installed base at launch: hundreds of millions of multimedia-phones.

slotMusic cards are packaged with a tiny USB adapter (a $9.99 value) ensuring seamless interoperability with all computers – Windows, Linux and Mac—and enabling music fans to move their music to any music management software program or MP3 music device. The MP3-based music tracks will be played back at up to 320 kilobits per second (kbps), offering a high quality audio experience.

slotMusic cards are expected to be available in Europe in 2009.

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), inventor of the ubiquitous microSD format, is leading the technology development behind slotMusic.

About EMI Music

EMI Music is the recorded music division of EMI Group Limited, one of the world’s leading music companies. EMI Music represents artists spanning all musical tastes and genres. Its record labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMI Televisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin.

About SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory – from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk’s product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate) is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.

About SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. Sony BMG Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

About Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the world’s leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry’s leading global music publishing operation. Universal Music Group’s record labels include Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Motown Republic Group, Universal Music Latino, Universal Records South, and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which includes the last 100 years of the world’s most popular artists and their recordings. UMG’s catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, its new media and technologies division; Bravado, its merchandising company; Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division; and Helter Skelter, its live music agency. Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and communications company.

About Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group became the only stand-alone music company to be publicly traded in the United States in May 2005. With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Bad Boy, Cordless, East West, Elektra, Lava, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word. Warner Music International, a leading company in national and international repertoire, operates through numerous international affiliates and licensees in more than 50 countries. Warner Music Group also includes Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world’s leading music publishers.

For more information regarding slotMusic, please visit:

slotMusic Official Website

The Rolling Stones have unveiled the details of their next album, ‘Shine A Light’, to be released by Universal Music / Polydor. The album is from the Martin Scorsese-directed concert film SHINE A LIGHT and will be released simultaneously with the movie.

From the unmistakeable opening riff of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” to the classic sounds of “Tumbling Dice”, “Sympathy For The Devil”, “All Down The Line” and “Start Me Up” plus some unusual gems from the Stones catalogue – “You Got The Silver” and “Faraway Eyes” – ‘Shine A Light’ will be released in the UK on 7 April, 2008.

Included are three stunning collaborations – with blues legend Buddy Guy on “Champagne and Reefer”, Jack White from White Stripes on “Loving Cup” while Christina Aguilera duets with Mick Jagger on “Live With Me”.

‘Shine A Light’ will be released on double CD worldwide with a single disc version available in the US.

‘Shine a Light’ is a 22 track Rolling Stones live double album recorded during two memorable nights at New York’s Beacon Theatre in 2006. Produced by The Glimmer Twins and mixed by Bob Clearmountain, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood are supported by their long-standing backline including bassist Darryl Jones, Chuck Leavell keyboards, Bobby Keys on saxophone, backing vocals Lisa Fischer, Blondie Chaplin and Bernard Fowler, and the horn section – Tim Ries, Michael Davies and Kent Smith.

Martin Scorsese’s SHINE A LIGHT film recently kick-started the Berlin Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim and receives its New York premiere on March 30 and European premiere in London on 2 April. UK Cinemagoers will have the chance to experience a Stones concert as never before – as the fifth member of the band, from the front row and from behind the scenes.

No stranger to rock concert films, Scorsese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. With performances from Buddy Guy, Jack White of the White Stripes and Christina Aguilera, and integrated with rarely seen archival footage, SHINE A LIGHT is a unique cinema experience.

Twentieth Century Fox will take the ultimate Rolling Stones concert film SHINE A LIGHT from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese to over 100 cinemas nationwide on 2 April via satellite link for simultaneous premieres alongside the London Leicester Square opening.

Tickets on sale from 7 March, 2008.

The feature film Shine A Light, directed by Martin Scorsese, is on UK national cinema release from 11 April 2008.

Album track listing:

CD 1

Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Shattered, She Was Hot, All Down the Line, Loving Cup (with Jack White), As Tears Go By, Some Girls, Just My Imagination, Faraway Eyes, Champagne and Reefer (with Buddy Guy), Tumbling Dice, You Got The Silver, Connection.

CD2

Sympathy For The Devil, Live with Me (with Christina Aguilera), Start Me Up, Brown Sugar, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Paint It Black, Little T&A, I’m Free, Shine A Light.

Album Credits

Produced by the Glimmer Twins
Co-produced by Bob Clearmountain
Recorded and mixed by Bob Clearmountain

Mick Jagger: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Keith Richards: guitar, vocals
Charlie Watts: drums
Ronnie Wood: guitar
Darryl Jones: bass guitar
Chuck Leavell: keyboards
Bobby Keys: saxophone
Bernard Fowler: vocals
Lisa Fischer: vocals
Blondie Chaplin: vocals
Tim Ries: saxophone, keyboards
Kent Smith: trumpet
Michael Davis: trombone

‘Martin Scorsese’s homage to the Rolling Stones has the most stunning concert footage I’ve seen’….There’s something indestructible about their energy…..The concert itself is a piece of Technicolour magic’ – James Christopher, The Times

‘This is Dynamite’ ‘I’ve always been struck by how the Stones have remained so vital’ ‘The Rolling Stones keep exploding over the decades, defying their age and keeping us satisfied’ – Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail

‘[It] will blow you away, as it did me’ ‘Shine A Light is a technical tour de force, a visceral hit and a film…One sees Wood, Watts, Jagger…and Richards, for what they are; extraordinary, exotic, extravagant creatures.’ – Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Culture

‘Shine A Light radiates a genuine, heartening joy in performance’ – Andrew Mueller, Uncut

The Rolling Stones – Shine A Light on amazon.co.uk

Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack on amazon.com

For more details visit:

Shine A Light Movie

The Rolling Stones Official Website

Billy Fury was truly the British Rock ‘n’ Roll star. He had 24 hits in the 1960s and spent 332 weeks on the charts – a feat equalled only by The Beatles. Billy Fury’s musical biography is now available documented on this fabulous soundtrack of hits spanning his Decca career.

His Wondrous Story highlights the early days of British rock and roll and Fury’s dominance of the British pop scene. ‘Billy Fury: His Wonderous Story – The Complete Collection’ is set for UK release through Universal Music 28th January, 2008.

Includes fantastic hits such as “Jealousy”, “Halfway To Paradise” and “Last Night Was Made For Love”.

Billy Fury became an overnight music sensation in the late 1950s when his moody brand of rock and roll earned him the nickname of Britain’s Elvis Presley. Fury’s stage performances and sexual charisma left his female fans screaming for more, cementing his place as Britain’s number 1 teen idol.

Throughout his very successful career he released a stream of hits including “Maybe Tomorrow”, “Wondrous Place”, “A Thousand Stars” and “In Thoughts of You”.

‘Billy Fury: His Wonderous Story – The Complete Collection‘ track listing:

1. Jealousy
2. Halfway To Paradise
3. Like I’ve Never Been Gone
4. When Will You Say I Love You
5. Last Night Was Made For Love
6. I’d Never Find Another You
7. In Summer
8. Once Upon A Dream
9. Colette
10. In Thoughts Of You
11. It’s Only Make Believe
12. Do Really Love Me Too
13. A Thousand Stars
14. I Will
15. I’m Lost Without You
16. Maybe Tomorrow
17. Because Of Love
18. Somebody Else’s Girl
19. That’s Love
20. Wondrous Place
21. Run To My Loving Arms
22. Give Me Your Word
23. Margo
24. Letter Full Of Tears
25. I’ll Never Quite Get Over You
26. Don’t Worry
27. Love Or Money
28. Devil Or Angel
29. Forget Him

Billy Fury: His Wondrous Story – The Complete Collection on amazon.co.uk

Universal Music TV Official Website

Billy Fury Website