(My Free PR ) A new website geared toward new music artists, "YouMusic.jp ", is announcing its pre-launch phase today. YouMusic displays music performances by such artists and allows their audience to post their comments freely. It is a free, "community-minded" website, available in both Japanese and English, connecting artists and their audience on a one-on-one level.
As an online music community, YouMusic aims to foster young artists
aspiring to make a major debut one day by providing them with
opportunities to perform on a "virtual stage", where they can showcase
their music performances, videos and images. Music performances by
both Japanese and American/British musicians are now being introduced
to a general audience beyond their own countries' boundaries, and it is
hoped that others will join these musicians and that all will one day
become globally renowned.
YouMusic is a nonprofit website
operated by a major Japanese translation company, Simulingual
(headquartered in Tokyo). Established musicians are also welcome and
invited to participate.
A beta version of YouMusic is currently
available, generating approximately 3,000 accesses every day. Blogging
and RSS functions will be added to YouMusic before its official launch
in April 2008.
1. YouMusic
displays music performances submitted by musicians regardless of their
categories. Its main theme is to support musicians by providing them
with opportunities to perform on a "virtual stage". The same kind of
sensation that you experience when you stop on the street to listen to
music performed by street musicians in a liberated atmosphere can be
created on YouMusic.
2. As YouMusic is a community-minded
website, it offers an environment through which musicians and their
audience can interact in different ways, including blogs, "bulletin
boards" and through sub-communities such as "fan clubs".
3.
YouMusic introduces a "listener's eyes" system, in which each member's
artist evaluation is revealed in real time. This evaluation considers
various factors, such as the member's action in response to the
artist's performance (e.g., frequency of access to the website,
blogging, participation in site community activities, adding onto the
member's own page). "Listener's eyes" can make it immediately apparent
which members support which musicians/songs.
Future Development of YouMusic
Under
YouMusic's currently available beta version, there are approximately
400 music performances that have been submitted by musicians for
display and a daily average of nearly 3,000 accesses. We will be
developing a variety of features to continue making YouMusic a
full-scale media environment.
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