NEW STORES AND MOBILE PARTNERS

The Orchard is dedicated to getting your music to every major digital store and mobile provider out there. Here are three new additions to our network!

HMV DIGITAL - UK
HMV - the retail giant that generates 25% of all CD sales in the UK - joined the digital download market last month. Like Napster, HMV Digital will give customers the option of "renting" music for a 30-day period through a subscription service, in addition to the option of buying individual "a la carte" downloads at a flat fee. Also like Napster, HMV Digital exclusively sells Microsoft-backed WMA (Windows Media Audio) files, which cannot be played on Apple's iPod, but works on Creative and iRiver devices. The entire Orchard catalogue was included in HMV Digital's early September launch. The Orchard's Marketing & Merchandising team has already traveled to London several times to meet with HMV Digital's editorial team and make sure that your music is properly promoted.


THE SOURCE MOBILE - US
A selection of Orchard-supplied hip-hop ringtones will go live on The Source Mobile next week, thanks to Orchard mobile partner Hudson. Now readers of the biggest hip-hop magazine The Source (approx. readership: 9 million) can easily find and purchase actual audio hip-hop samples (not just cheap polyphonic reproductions) for their mobile ring, including tones from Public Enemy, Afrika Bambaataa, Immortal Technique and Masta Killa. The Orchard will deliver new tones to The Source Mobile regularly, so keep sending us your newest hip-hop and R&B joints, as far ahead of street date as possible!


WES - FINLAND
WES [Wireless Entertainment Services] is one of the oldest players in the European mobile marketplace. It started supplying ringtones to carriers in 1998, when Nokia first introduced mobile phones that support commercial ringtones. The company will deliver Orchard ringtones - including batches of lounge music, Bollywood classics, hip-hop hits and spooky Halloween tones - to a network of carriers in Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Portugal, Iceland, UK, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia this month.


SEE COMPLETE LISTS OF ORCHARD-SUPPLIED DIGITAL STORES AND MOBILE PARTNERS.

NEW IN-STORE PLACEMENTS

It's a fact: promotional in-store placements boosts sales. That's why our Marketing and Merchandising team continues to work extra hard to promote you, our valued clients. In fact, we recently notched our 25,000th promotional in-store placement. Read about this unprecedented milestone here. Here's a handful of new "wins."

1) iTunes US promoted Mötley Crüe's new "Home Sweet Home" charity single [featuring guest vocals from Linkin Park's Chester Bennington] on its homepage and Rock homepage. The Orchard and Crüe / Bennington will donate 100% of the proceeds to the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Effort and Mercy Corps. Read the press release here.

2) We scored a total of 37 major placements for artists like June Tabor and The Waifs at UK newcomers HMV Digital [sample] and Virgin Digital [sample].

3) iTunes Canada featured the reggae-tinged Canadian rockers Bedouin Soundclash in its Staff Favorites, Top Songs and Hot Pop sections. Bedouin Soundclash's single "When the Night Feels My Song" ranked #6 on iTunes' new at-a-glance international Top Ten Songs chart.

4) Art Brut's new single Good Weekend was featured in Karmadownload UK's newsletter.

5) Lookout Records' This Is My Bag label compilation was featured as a staff pick on Music Now's homepage.

WELCOME, NEW LABELS

DECON [US] - Rap, Hip-hop.
Artists: Tracks from Ghostface, Redman, Blackalicious, Common, The Roots, RJD2, Lyrics Born, Aesop Rock, Dilated Peoples; albums from Afu-Ra and Haiku d'Etat, feat. Aceyalone and Micah 9 of Freestyle Fellowship.

ANALEKTA [CANADA] - Classical, Jazz.
Artists: Masques, Angele Dubeau et Laq Pieta, James Ehnes, "Montreal Jazz Club" compilation, Trio Lorraine Desmarais & Jean-Pierre Zanella.

SYNERGY ENTERTAINMENT [US] - Bluegrass.
Artists: Bluegrass versions of classics by The Beatles, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Rolling Stones, James Taylor and Simon & Garfunkel.

DUCK [ITALY] - Italian pop, rock, instrumental, new age, children's music.
Artist: 20,000 tracks from one of the oldest labels in Italy, including music from Dik Dik, Pooh, I Cugini di Campagna, Equipe 84, Mal, Pupo, Bobby Solo, Little Tony, Giorgio Gaber, Marco Ferradini, Gigi Finizio and many others.

SPLASH POINT [UK] - Jazz.
Artists: 2005 BBC Jazz Award-winner Liane Carroll, vocalist / trumpet player Sue Richardson.

INDUSTRY NEWS

SALES OF DIGITAL MUSIC TRIPLES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4304466.stm

JAPAN: $122 MILLION MUSIC SALES THROUGH CELL PHONES, $4.8 MILLION THROUGH PCs
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=8994

US RINGTONE SURVEY OF MEN VS. WOMEN: WHO BUYS WHAT?
http://www.mmetrics.com/press/PressRelease.aspx?article=20050926-ringtones-gender

NIELSEN BEGINS TRACKING TETHERED DIGITAL DOWNLOADS
http://www.billboard.com/bb/biz/newsroom/digital/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001180509

SIX WAYS TO LINK IPODS TO CAR RADIOS
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1185559

ORCHARD NEWS

THE ORCHARD AND SAREGAMA LAUNCH ASHA BHOSLE'S LANDMARK NEW ALBUM WITH UNPRECEDENTED DIGITAL PROMOTION
http://www.theorchard.com/news/tomembers_092905.php

THE ORCHARD TO MAKE MOTLEY CRUE & CHESTER BENNINGTON "HOME SWEET HOME" HURRICANE RELIEF SINGLE AVAILABLE FIRST EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES
http://www.theorchard.com/news/tomembers_092705.php

THE ORCHARD PLACES 25,000th PREFERRED PROMOTIONAL SPOT AND NOTCHES ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS ON EMUSIC IN THE SECOND QUARTER
http://www.theorchard.com/news/tomembers_092605.php

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UPCOMING EVENTS

WOMEX: October 26-30, Newcastle Gateshead UK
http://www.womex.com
Now in its eleventh year, the WOrld Music EXpo is the world's premier international conference exclusively dedicated to world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional, local and diaspora music of all kinds. Last year, over 2,000 delegates from 82 countries gathered to network. This year, Orchard co-founder Scott Cohen and UK Product Manager Naja Detrekoy will attend. Stop by our booth C34 and say hello!

AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT: October 27-29, Amsterdam NL
http://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl
Now in its tenth year, the Amsterdam Dance Event is Europe's main electronic and dance music conference, bringing together 1,300 industry professionals and 300 electronic / dance artists and DJs. The event will feature over twenty panels geared towards new industry developments and a night-time festival that showcases the freshest sounds around.

ALSO UPCOMING

ACCESS ALL AREAS: November 09-10, Stockholm SE
http://www.accessallareas.se

MIDEM: January 22-26, Cannes FR
http://www.midem.com

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