Ya ya YAAAH!

I don't know about you, but I like it RAAWWWWW! Win a cool bag.

Got a cool prize to give away this week, it's going to go to best trader, which is the person who is number one in the charts NEXT Friday.



It's a Busta Rhymes backpack, and it's black and it's one of those one strapped courier bags.



I think it's been sent to promote "Turn it up", which is the Busta Rhymes Greatest Hits package, which they also sent. So I'll throw that in too. It's got "Turn It Up" and "Woo Hah" and the one with the music from Knight Rider, and all of them.



If you're not confident you will win, then you can buy it from HMV here or from Amazon here...



I will dig out another CD for this week's winner.



Work for a record company? Want to promote your stuff? Please send it in, the address is on the front page...

pauly :: 2001 :: Comment / reply

Really bad and sad news a

Really bad and sad news about Paul Hunter, he was only 27 and had just become a dad, should have known things were very serious when his ranking was frozen earlier this year, that's an unusual move, though we really thought and hoped he'd recover.

Also fairly bad news from East Asia, indeed how do you solve a problem like Korea?

Also my interview went quite well I think, afterwards I met Clare for a fairly rubbish lunch in a pub near her work, then I bumped into a friend in the park on the way home:


Bizarre one about Google buying YouTube, for about eight hundred million pounds... They've only been going less than two years I think, so even if the rumours were true about them spending a million dollars a day in bandidth costs for all of that time, they're still in profit. And they've had some investment in the mean time. Why did Google not buy popex? Seems someone's filling the gap left by popex's departure:

PRESS RELEASE | Official UK Charts Company to launch Fantasy Music Manager game

> Record industry vies for slice of booming interactive gaming market.

London, October 9 2006, 11.30am | The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) is to launch a new internet-based game which applies the successful Fantasy Football Manager formula to the fast-paced world of the UK music charts and offers £40,000 in prizes and tickets to The BRITs 2007.

The OCC - which is co-owned by the British recorded music trade association the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association - has linked up with commercial marketing agency Why Not! to create a Fantasy Music Manager game which will run over the eight weeks up to Christmas, culminating with the Christmas Number One.

The game, which allows players to select a roster of artists who then perform based on their week-by-week performance in the charts, is sponsored by Xbox 360 and will be promoted to a potential audience of 8.5m people through tie-ups with commercial radio's Hit 40 UK, games site Freeloader.com and youth web portal Xtaster amongst others.

The OCC says that music adds a new twist to the fast-growing £10m market for fantasy gaming.

2006 :: Comment / reply

Office Cleaning Day

Rushing through my PopEx admin this morning (charts to add, etc) then this afternoon is the great office clean, bit odd, then a big company meeting, even odder.



Have noticed lots of wacky referers, that aren't actually referers at all, but are showing up as such. I assume it's a new clever kind of spam - get details of weblogs from some blog indexing service or aggregator, and then request one page from each blog, putting in your own page as the referer. Bloggers spend every second of every day checking out who's been checking them out, so they'll always go back to these pages to see what they're about... SMART! Might give it a go when I have more time.



Did 6k on the bike this morning, but still haven't done that "citation" thing I was thinking about a while back...

pauly :: 2003 :: Comment / reply