Lil Wayne Trumps Jay Z, Named Artist of the Year by Muve Music

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Muve Music from Cricket celebrates the year in music with its Best of 2013 lists, featuring the artists and albums played most by Muve Music customers, as well as favorites of the Muve Music staff. Nominated albums were released in 2013, and nominated artists released a track in the same timeframe. Lil Wayne surprised the Muve Music staff by taking the top spot as the 2013 Artist of the Year overall, with the most plays in the service.

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In addition, the Muve Music Best of 2013 lists include categories for multiple genres, including Pop/Rock, Hip Hop, Latin Regional and Country. Honored in each genre, as well as overall, are Artist of the Year, Best New Artist, Most Played Album and Staff Pick for Best Album.

Muve Music Best of 2013

Muve Music, exclusive to Cricket Wireless in the U.S., celebrated a successful 2013. The service exceeded two million subscribers in October, with active listeners playing an average of 30 hours of music per month. Using Muve Music doesn't count against a customer's data plan, so they can listen as long as they want and preserve their data for videos, image sharing and digital holiday "thank you" cards. Because the service was designed exclusively for mobile phones, subscribers can enjoy any of more than 16 million tracks anytime – even when offline or out of network – once saved to the listener's My Music section.

To stay on top of Muve Music and its Best of 2013 lists, follow the #BestofMuve and #MuveMusic hashtags. You can also find Cricket on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram to hear the latest in mobile and music news.

How to get Muve Music

Muve Music is included in Cricket's unlimited nationwide music, talk, text, and data rate plans¹ at no additional cost. Cricket offers Muve Music on a range of smartphones. Starting at $45 per month, Muve Music is included in Cricket's 3G or 4G LTE unlimited nationwide talk, text, and data plus music plans². Muve Monthly Artist Programs such as Muve Headliner, Muve First, Muve Spotlight and Muve Icon were designed to promote music discovery and new music from up-and-coming and established artists.

About Cricket
Cricket is the pioneer and leader in delivering innovative value-rich prepaid wireless services with no long-term contracts. Cricket offers nationwide wireless voice and mobile data services over high-quality, all-digital 4G LTE and 3G CDMA wireless networks. Cricket's innovative products and services, including the award-winning Muve Music^® - the first music service designed for a wireless phone, are available nationwide at Cricket branded retail stores, dealers, national retailers and at www.mycricket.com. For more information about Cricket, please visit www.mycricket.com.

¹ Muve Music^® is currently available on select Cricket Android smartphones

² When signed up for Automatic Bill Pay.

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SOURCE Cricket Communications, Inc.

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