NEW YORK - (Business Wire) AOL Music unveiled Tour Tracker,
http://tourtracker.com, a free Web service presented by American Express that lets music fans track their favorite artists and bands on tour. The site includes special incentive to buy tickets, including discounts for American Express
® cardmembers. AOL Music,
http://music.aol.com, is the Web
’s most visited online music destination.
* The newly launched site, accessible from the AOL Music main page, provides fans with a single online destination to stay updated on band or artists tours and to discuss everything from set lists to favorite show moments to places to meet afterwards. The site also provides music industry executives a useful tool to monitor interest in a particular artist or tour beyond ticket sales.
“We’re always looking to find new and innovative ways to help music fans stay current on their favorite artists and bands,” said AOL Music Vice President Bill Crandall. “Tour Tracker provides music fans an ongoing outlet to follow and discuss an artist throughout a tour or simply find comprehensive listings for which artists - mainstream or indie - are playing in one’s hometown on any given night.”
Highlights include:
- National search by artist, location and date
-- Track an artist throughout the entirety of a tour-- Find an extensive catalog of show listings for any U.S. city on any specific date
- Functionality to allow fans and music labels alike to track the hottest artists and tours
- JamBase powered listings provides extensive concert listings – including indie bands and smaller venues and theaters
- Special discount ticket incentives exclusively for American Express cardmembers
- MapQuest powered maps and directions to venue locations
- Artist/tour updates and news – including new concert dates
*comScore Media Metrics, June 2008
About AOL Music
AOL Music is the Web’s most trafficked music site with over 20 million unique visitors per month providing music fans with unparallel access to artist videos, songs, photos, news and lyrics. AOL Music’s network of sites includes Spinner.com, PopEater.com, and TheBoomBox.com and it is home to some of the Web’s most popular original series including Sessions, The DL, Top 11 Video Countdown, 3X3, and The Interface. AOL Music is part of AOL’s entertainment channels that include Moviefone, AOL Television, Asylum, and Urlesque.
About AOL
AOL® is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S., and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.
About AMEX
American Express Company (www.americanexpress.com) is a leading global payments and travel company founded in 1850.
For AOL:
Kurt Patat, 212-652-6323
kurt.patat@corp.aol.com
