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NAPSTER UK OPENS NEW CENTRAL LONDON HEADQUARTERS
Napster moves to Mortimer Street and appoints Darren Wallace as business development director LONDON - (July 9, 2004) - Napster® UK, Ltd., a subsidiary of Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI), is to open new offices in central London this month. The company’s UK headquarters will be at 57-61 Mortimer Street, London W1W 8HS. The announcement coincides with the appointment of Darren Wallace as business development director, with responsibility for forging new business relationships and overseeing the successful rollout of existing partnership programmes with the Dixons Group, Europe’s leading consumer electronics goods retailer, and ntl, the UK’s largest provider of broadband services. As business development director, Darren Wallace joins Napster UK alongside vice-president and UK general manager Leanne Sharman, communications director Adam Howorth, programming director Jeff Smith and marketing manager Rob Gotlieb. Wallace worked previously for pressplay as European business development director and GetMusic International as sales director. He reports directly to Leanne Sharman. "London is the international headquarters of all the major record companies and music publishers as well as independent labels body AIM, so it’s extremely important for Napster UK to be centrally located," said Leanne Sharman, Napster vice-president and UK general manager. "Darren Wallace brings a wealth of industry-specific experience and proven business development expertise to our UK team and his appointment underlines Napster’s continued commitment to building and developing strong partnerships with consumer brands. We are now looking at a further account director hire with below-the-line experience to manage existing and future relationships." Napster 2.0 Launched in the UK on May 20, Napster offers access to over three quarters of a million tracks and a huge range of value-added community features at a cost to subscribers of £9.95 a month. Alongside the subscription service, Napster Light offers music fans an a la carte download store. After downloading the free Napster jukebox at www.napster.co.uk, Napster subscribers can listen to the world’s largest digital music catalogue on demand, and download any track they choose onto the hard drives of up to three PCs and listen offline - to save bandwidth while they surf, or for convenience when on the go. Ten interactive advert-free Napster radio stations allow listeners to see which song is coming next, skip forward or jump back - with favourites easily added to their Napster library with one click. Napster can even build subscribers their own custom radio station on the fly simply on the basis of selecting three songs. Napster’s rich community features allow subscribers to browse each others’ play lists and even share songs among other Napster users. Subscribers can also listen to and save full-length songs taken from the past 10 years of Official Charts Company UK charts, and can purchase and burn tracks for as little as £0.88 per song when they buy multiple tracks. If UK music fans elect not to become a subscriber, by downloading Napster for free at www.napster.co.uk, they can still purchase tracks any time they want for £1.09 and albums for £9.95 after listening to free 30-second samples of the Napster UK library. At no cost, Napster Light users can organise their entire music collection in Napster by using the ripping software in the Napster jukebox to take tracks from CDs they already own to play on Napster, import MP3s into their Napster Library, or transfer tracks they’ve bought to a wide range of portable devices. Napster Light also offers consumers free access to Fuzz, Napster’s online magazine; their own Napster Inbox; and the chance to sample the OCC UK charts. About Napster Napster® is the world's most recognized brand in online music. Napster has content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalogue of online music with over 750,000 tracks spanning all genres and artists from Eminem to Miles Davis. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company, provider of the best-selling digital media software in the world. Napster is headquartered in Los Angeles with additional offices in London, New York, San Diego and Toronto. Napster contact: Adam Howorth Communications Director Tel: +44 (0) 207 1017281 adam.howorth@napster.co.uk
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