NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Groove Mobile) - Groove Mobile, the world's leading mobile music service provider, today announced at CMJ
Music Marathon & Film Festival a worldwide licensing deal with Redeye Distribution, a leading digital distributor dedicated to marketing and promoting independent media. The deal will increase Groove Mobile's catalog and provide independent labels and artists with instant access to the mobile phones of fans across the globe.
'Today's collaboration is an important step for independent artists seeking to leverage the power of mobile music services,' said Jim Logrando, digital sales and marketing for Redeye Distribution. 'Tracks from our influential catalog of music will be available to fans directly, allowing artists to expand their audiences with the Groove Mobile platform, reaching millions of music fans worldwide.'
Redeye Distribution currently handles physical and digital sales of songs for more than 250 labels including Yep Roc, Arena Rock, Purple Feather, PR Records, TKO Records, Rainbow and Quartz. Major artists include The Donnas, Paul Weller, Nick Lowe, Martin Sexton, Anti Flag, Southern Culture on the Skids, John Doe and the Reverend Horton Heat.
'Redeye Distribution represents an extensive group of influential artists and prominent independent labels that mobile music fans are demanding to hear,' said Adam Sexton, chief marketing officer for Groove Mobile. 'At Groove Mobile, we have always been focused on the music, and this new agreement with Redeye will bring some of the leading independent artists to our wireless carrier partners around the world.'
With 35 million transactions completed since launching the service in 2004, Groove Mobile has continued to strengthen its command of the marketplace through recent deals with Bell Canada, Vodafone, 3 UK, Universal Music Group and Sony BMG. A pioneer in the mobile music industry, Groove Mobile sold 400,000 audio singles in its first year alone and in July of this year enabled nearly three million downloads in a single month. In addition to this latest deal with Redeye, Groove Mobile also provides music fans access to the content of other leading independents including V2, The Orchard, Beggars Group, DRA, IRIS Distribution, INgrooves, GrooveSource, IODA, Artspage and Phonofile.
