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IMEEM completes deals with Universal and EMI
Posted in New Features on Jan 04, 2008 at 3:03 AM by Dalton Caldwell
Current mood: awesome

Hello imeem,

Happy new year. I have some great news to share. We recently announced an agreement with Universal Music Group, which is the world’s largest music company. Under the agreement, imeem users get to upload, stream and share music and video from Univeral’s catalogue for free through imeem.

What does this mean for you? It means that when you’re on imeem, you can check out full-length songs and videos from more of the artists you care about – people like Kanye West, The Killers, Snow Patrol, Wu-Tang Clan, Gwen Stefani, Amy Winehouse, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, and Black Eyed Peas. When you find something you like, you can playlist it, tag it, rate it, comment on it, and discover music you might like by finding other imeem users who are into the same things you are.

We also recently secured a similar deal with EMI Music. Some of the artists on EMI include Radiohead, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, 30 Seconds to Mars, Norah Jones, Interpol, KT Tunstall, Daft Punk, Joss Stone, the Beastie Boys.

This means that imeem now has deals done with all 4 major music labels in the U.S., as well as a number of independent labels and video providers. This took a lot of blood, sweat and tears (and the better part of the last 18 months) to accomplish, but it’s been worth it. It’s great to know we’re continuing to make big strides in giving imeem users the full-length streaming you’ve been demanding, and doing so in a way that ensure that artists get paid, too, thanks to the advertising on our site.

We at imeem are proud to be offering a cool site that offers all the music and video you love, while working hand-in-hand with labels and artists. Now that all of this is done, we truly have the largest, most vibrant and interactive playlist community on the Internet.

Thanks for sticking with us, and if you know people that haven’t been on imeem in a few months, make a playlist for them and let them know that as of now we have the largest legal full-song streaming site on the Internet.

Dalton

P.S.
At the moment most of our deals are for allowing full-song streams to imeem members in the U.S. and Canada. International users shouldn't worry, we are working hard on securing the same rights for our members in other countries.

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Comments (38)

FirstLook (permalink)

1:42pm

nice site, but can you guys add the "block feature" please, some people just so annoying send too much crap that i don't need to hear. thank FirstLook

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A 10 (permalink)

May 11th, 5:30am Last edited May 11th, 5:39am.

Imeem was great and all, but what happened? Now full length tracks i enjoyed listening too are cut down to 30sec. If i wanted to listen to 30 sec of a track and then buy it and download it i would rather use Beatport.com. I understand the corporate side but, really? Not only after all that i gotta upload the song myself so i can listen to it myself only. why should i even upload it??? But now another site with weird restrictions... Now more and more tracks will get cut down which will leave me with a playlist of 30 sec tracks. It was a nice while it lasted, well except for the search engine, not consistent or concise on some queries.

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Cat (permalink)

May 10th, 9:37pm

i love you imeem, but i hate the ads sprinkled through playlists. it destroys the experience.

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Blue angel (permalink)

May 9th, 6:14am

I am Blueangel from China, haha, short for chinablueangel.I like music, espacially using the she limmest MP4-V1 to listen. Share with me sapphire@chinabluangelcom

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Abbie Winston (permalink)

May 8th, 6:35pm

I wanted to turn you on to a new and up and coming artist in the Phoenix area. Her name is Lauren Winston, check out one of her songs on MY Space Music. It's really soulful! Enjoy.

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Susan Steele (permalink)

May 4th, 1:32pm Last edited May 4th, 1:32pm.

Wow! That is great news! I hope we keep getting more new artists! Its awesome that we can now come here and enjoy full length vids & music!
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Cybasumo Sumo (permalink)

May 1st, 4:30pm

i think it's great too! anyways i have to see this!

I just found out about a new website that helps musicians, artists, writers etc. to sell their work online without the need to go through record labels, publishing houses and all that stuff... It’s called CybaSumo.com – you sign up for free and they give you a free store on their website to sell your work through. They also offer a software widget that you can put on your myspace or facebook (or blog) to help you sell your work directly to your friends. They just started up this week, it’s probably worth checking out…

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Natalia Gaston (permalink)

Apr 28th, 3:36pm

noo entiendo como puedo poner musica de imeem en mi jote?

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