eMUSIC SPONSORS CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE

The #1 Site for Independent Music Turns Downloads Into Donations
to City Parks Foundation

NEW YORK, May 16, 2006 – eMusic, the world’s largest digital retailer of independent music, and the number two digital music service worldwide, has signed on as a sponsor of Central Park SummerStage 2006. The company will distribute 200,000 co-branded cards offering 50 free downloads to attendees at every Central Park SummerStage event. As a result of this partnership, eMusic will make a contribution to the City Parks Foundation at the end of the SummerStage season.

Concertgoers that redeem the cards also will have the opportunity to sign up for a free trial of eMusic. eMusic also will offer 50 free downloads to anyone who signs up for a free eMusic trial by visiting www.emusic.com/summerstage.

“SummerStage’s lineup touches almost every musical genre – indie-rock, hip-hop, jazz, electronic, all kinds of world music and more – and so does eMusic’s vast collection of great music,” said David Pakman, President and CEO of eMusic. “It’s a definitive New York City music series, and eMusic is very proud to lend its support to the performers and the City Parks Foundation. Any customer attending a SummerStage event has great taste in music and is therefore the perfect eMusic subscriber.”

Many artists performing at SummerStage boast music available for download on eMusic, including indie-rock stars New Pornographers and Calexico; underground hip-hop artists Lady Sovereign and Jean Grae; world music genre-busters Amadou et Miriam and Konono No. 1; alternative jazz duo Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte, and more.

About eMusic
eMusic (http://www.emusic.com) is the world’s leading digital retailer of independent music, second only to iTunes in number of downloads sold. Delivering more than 4.5 million downloads per month, eMusic features over 1.2 million tracks from established and emerging artists in every genre from the world’s leading independent labels. A subscription-based service that offers 25 free downloads at sign-up, acclaimed editorial content, a vibrant online community and music discovery tools, eMusic gives consumers an inexpensive, low-risk way to explore great new music they wouldn’t find otherwise. Unlike other download services, eMusic’s universally compatible MP3 files play on any device including the iPod. Based in New York, eMusic.com Inc. is wholly owned by Dimensional Associates, Inc., the private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, Inc.

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