Even in This Day and Age, People Would Rather be A&R Men Than Gangsters or Farmers!

LONDON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, the world's first music based social network game was released. The game titled Hit or Not is initially available only to Facebook users. Myspace and iPhone versions are on the books for the not too distant future.

The application link:

http://apps.facebook.com/hitornot/

And links to videos about the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2amLbBhs2Oo

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H47m1uoWeY

Following the recent phenomenal rise in popularity of social network games such as Farmville, Hit or Not allows players to become virtual music moguls.

By listening to and ranking songs, players accumulate virtual cash they can use to "sign" and bribe artists and various other nefarious music biz activities. If the songs "signed" by the player rise on the Hit or Not charts, that player can "sell" those songs to make a (virtual) profit.  The Hit or Not stock exchange is one financial institution that can never go bust, only perpetually up and down!

iTunes compatible MP3 downloads of all the songs are for sale for real money wherever the songs are displayed and roughly 80 percent of the retail price goes straight to the artist.

All music on the Hit or Not system is from the 10,000+ independent artists using theBizmo microstore widget. UGC considers their artists to be part of the company, and has taken the modern philosophy of involving users one step further.  "The bands love to participate," concludes Gjester. "We ask them all kinds of stuff. Our users are highly creative individuals who enjoy being involved in the development process."

It probably doesn't hurt that it's actually working.  With dramatically increased exposure and more than tripled revenues so far it looks like Hit or Not is pushing the old business rules one step closer to game over.

www.thebizmo.com

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