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Universal Music Publishing Group Chooses Loudeye to Power SYNCHExpress.com Loudeye Providing End-to-End Digital Music Solution for Connecting Music Supervisors With UMPG's Rich Song Catalog SEATTLE, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Loudeye Corp. , the worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions, today announced it was chosen by Universal Music Publishing Group ("UMPG"), one of the world's leading music publishing companies, to provide a complete end-to-end digital music solution for UMPG's SYNCHExpress.com. Under the agreement, Loudeye is making UMPG's music catalog available to licensed clients through SYNCHExpress.com. Loudeye has also built a customized and automated content management system that allows UMPG to easily upload and organize music content. Additionally, Loudeye is maintaining new releases on a weekly basis and providing hosting and streaming for the digital audio content. SYNCHExpress.com offers music supervisors for film, TV, advertising and media fast search access to an online database of hit recordings that span from the 1920s to present. Utilizing SYNCHExpress.com, music supervisors can now browse songs by title, writer, genre, decade, subject and date range as well as access audio, copyright information and song ideas. With authorized password access, UMPG's VIP clients can have access to full length streaming audio and request downloads to be sent via e-mail from UMPG staff. Synch licenses can be requested via an online form, saving client's valuable time. VIP SYNCHExpress benefits also include a feature that allows clients to store and organize their UMPG song selections, receive e-mail song pitches from UMPG creative staff, free monthly CD samplers, exclusive SYNCHExpress needle drop promotions for pre-cleared songs and one-on-one interaction with UMPG creative staff. UMPG owns or administers more than a million copyrights including a multitude of prestigious catalogs including: Interscope and Def Jam Music, Rondor Music, All Nations Music, Charlie Daniels, Matraca Berg, Prince, Forerunner Music, Epitaph, Greenwich/Barry, Momentum Publishing, and John Philips. Songwriters and artists on its roster including: 50 Cent, Paul Simon, U2, Bon Jovi, The Beastie Boys, Alanis Morissette, Fatboy Slim, Noir Desir, and Blink-182. "We were looking for a complete solution from a single vendor for creating a new marketing and promotional initiative using digital music to increase exposure for our artist roster and drive interest in licensing content from our catalog," said David Renzer, Worldwide President, Universal Music Publishing Group. "Working with Loudeye enabled us to quickly and cost effectively prepare our content for digital distribution, manage the content, maintain our own branding and have instant access to new releases. As a result, we were able to rapidly come to market with a compelling product for promoting our clients to music licensing professionals." "Our outsourcing relationship with Universal Music Group Publishing exemplifies the depth and flexibility of our digital media services in offering a full range of solutions for supporting any digital music deployment," said Jeff Cavins, Loudeye's president and chief executive officer. "Powering SYNCHExpress.com with our digital media services helps UMPG enhance their artist's visibility, create new revenue streams, maintain a strong competitive advantage and establish a compelling online presence for their music publishing business." About Loudeye Corp. Loudeye is the worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions and the outsourcing provider of choice for companies looking to maximize the return on their digital media investment. Loudeye combines innovative products and services with the world's largest music archive and the industry's leading digital media infrastructure enabling partners to rapidly and cost effectively launch complete, customized digital media stores and services. For more information, visit http://www.loudeye.com/. About Universal Music Publishing Group With over 47 offices in 41 countries worldwide, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) is part of the Universal Music Group and is one of the industry's largest global music publishing operations. Owning or administering more than a million copyrights, UMPG's writers and catalogs include: U2, Shania Twain, Bon Jovi, 50 Cent, Ashanti, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Prince, Vanessa Carlton, Godsmack, Mary J. Blige, The Corrs, Eve, Musiq, Chemical Brothers, Jill Scott, Brian McKnight, Ja Rule, No Doubt, Jack Johnson, Glen Ballard, Blink-182, 3 Doors Down, Anastacia, DMX, Fuel, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the legendary catalogs of Holland/Dozier/Holland, Leonard Bernstein and Henry Mancini, among many others. For more information, visit http://www.umusicpub.com/. Forward Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Loudeye's relationship with Universal Music Publishing Group and the use, performance, expected benefits and projected revenue associated with Loudeye's digital media solutions; and statements by Loudeye's president and CEO. These statements are based on current estimates and actual results may differ materially due to risks, including the possibility of adverse changes in the market for distribution of digital audio and video that Loudeye serves; adverse or uncertain legal developments with respect to copyrights surrounding the creation and distribution of digital content; pricing pressures and other activities by competitors; the failure of Loudeye's hosting infrastructure; the complexity of Loudeye's services and delivery networks; any problems or failures in the structure, complexities or redundancies of Loudeye's network infrastructure; failures in third party telecommunication and network providers to provide required transmission capacity; Loudeye's capacity to scale and support third party technologies; lack of market acceptance for Loudeye's products and services; the possible delay in the adoption of digital media or related applications on the web in general; and other risks set forth in Loudeye's most recent Form 10-Q, Form 10-K and other SEC filings which are available through EDGAR at http://www.sec.gov/. Loudeye assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Loudeye Corp. CONTACT: Media/public relations, Karen DeMarco of mPRm, +1-323-933-3399, or , for Loudeye Corp.; or Heather Brown of UMPG, +1-310-235-4870, or ; or investors, Michael Dougherty of Loudeye Corp., +1-206-832-4000, or Web site: http://www.loudeye.com/

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