CDnow Invites Visitors to Celebrate the 1999 GRAMMY Awards with a
Wealth of Music and Information
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- CDnow (Nasdaq: CDNW), the
Internet's number one music store, and exclusive online music retailer of the
1999 GRAMMY Awards telecast, invites visitors to celebrate the 1999 GRAMMY
Awards. Fans can enter the "Connect To The Music" sweepstakes for a chance to
meet Country/Pop superstar Shania Twain. Visitors can also find information
on their favorite 1998 GRAMMY Awards nominees through detailed biographies,
album reviews and sound clips, during CDnow's month-long GRAMMY Awards
celebration -- sponsored by First USA, the nation's largest credit card
lender, and Crutchfield, the Internet's leading electronic store.
Visitors can enter to be one of over 2,000 winners in CDnow's "Connect To
The Music" sweepstakes, also sponsored by TDK, by completing an entry form at
http://www.cdnow.com/connect from February 8th through March 22nd. Winners
will be drawn at the close of the sweepstakes. See official sweepstakes rules
for more details.
Grand Prize
-- A two day/one night trip for six people to a Shania Twain concert.
Location to be based on her 1999 available concert dates.
-- Trip includes:
-- deluxe hotel accommodations
-- limousine service
-- premier tickets to the concert
-- meet-and-greet with Shania
-- 6 backstage/VIP passes
-- $1,000 spending money for the group
First Prize
-- Free Music For Life -- one CD per month for the rest of your life.
Second Prize
-- CD recorder/player and a $2500 shopping spree at TDK.
10 Third Prizes
-- 50 free CDs. Ten winners will win up to 50 CDs of their choice valued
at $20/CD.
50 Fourth Prizes
-- $200 CDnow shopping spree.
2000 Bonus Prizes
-- 1000 CDnow T-shirts
-- 1000 CDnow mouse pads
"If you can't be at the Shrine Auditorium for the awards, you should be at
home with CDnow," said Jason Olim, President and CFO of CDnow. "Fans can
explore the music online, get an insider's perspective of the GRAMMY Awards,
receive a chance to meet one of today's biggest Country/Pop superstars, and
also learn more about their favorite artists -- all during CDnow's month-long
1999 GRAMMY Awards Celebration."
CDnow's 1999 GRAMMY Awards Celebration features a special insider's look
at the GRAMMY Awards, written by Anthony DeCurtis, CDnow Executive Editor and
Rolling Stone Contributing Editor. One of the nation's most prominent veteran
music journalists, DeCurtis won a GRAMMY Award for Best Album Notes in 1989
for his essay accompanying the Eric Clapton retrospective, "Crossroads."
Sprinkled throughout with amusing anecdotes, Anthony's informative look back
at the 1989 GRAMMY Awards allows visitors to experience the excitement of the
GRAMMY Awards from an insider's perspective.
All 1998 GRAMMY Award nominees and past GRAMMY Awards Album of the Year
winners from 1959-1997 are available now through the end of February at up to
30% off list price.
CDnow will launch a brand new ad campaign during the 1999 GRAMMY Awards
telecast. More details to follow within the next two weeks.
About CDnow
CDnow, Inc. (http://www.cdnow.com), the Internet's number one music store,
offers more than 350,000 music related items -- ten times the size of the
average music store. Founded in 1994 by twin brothers Jason and Matthew Olim,
CDnow is building a better music store through intelligent album
recommendations, custom CDs, music samples, a vast library of reviews and
features from top music writers and exclusive editorial content from Rolling
Stone Network, MTV/VH1 and CMJ New Music Monthly. CDnow is the premier online
music store on Yahoo!, Lycos, Lycos-Bertelsmann, Webcrawler, Tripod,
Geocities, MTV/VH1 and Rolling Stone Network.
On October 23, 1998, CDnow, Inc. and N2K Inc. (Nasdaq: NTKI) jointly
announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement. The merger is
expected to be completed prior to March 31, 1999.
GRAMMY Awards
The GRAMMY Awards are hosted by the National Academy of Recording Arts &
Sciences (NARAS). This year's 41st Annual GRAMMY Awards Show will take place
at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 24th. The show
will be telecast live over the CBS network from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. E.T. to an
international viewing audience of over 1.5 billion people in over
190 countries.
SOURCE CDnow, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Marlo Zoda, 215-619-9432, or mzoda@cdnow.com,
or Jenni Glenn, 215-619-9546, or jglenn@cdnow.com, both of CDnow;
or Kerry Chernin, kerry@middleberg.com, or Jocelyn Johnson,
jjohnson@middleberg.com, both of Middleberg + Associates,
212-888-6610, for CDnow
NOTE TO EDITORS: "GRAMMY" is a registered trademark of the
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
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