Musicmaker.com Expands Online Music Offerings With Selections From `EMI Classics' And `Blue Note' Catalogues

Business Wire, August 17, 2000

Business & Music Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2000

Online Custom CD Compilation Company Bolsters Music Library With

Extensive Collection of Classical and Jazz Tracks

Building on its strong relationship with EMI Recorded Music, Musicmaker.com, Inc. (Nasdaq NMS: HITS) is expanding its online offerings to encompass additional selections from the EMI Classics and Blue Note catalogues, providing a diverse array of classical and jazz music for custom CD compilations.

Among the new offerings from EMI Classics are operas and arias of legendary singer Maria Callas, and recordings of tenors Jussi Bjorling, Nicolai Gedda, Rudolf Schock, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo. Selections from the venerable jazz imprint Blue Note include crucial recordings from Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins and Herbie Hancock.

"We are pleased to expand our repertoire of music from EMI and continue to bring quality recordings to the Internet," said Larry Lieberman, President of Global Marketing for Musicmaker.com. "EMI Classics is a treasure of music from the past century and Blue Note includes some of the most important jazz recordings of our time, providing our customers with even more selections for their own music CDs."

Bruce Lundvall, President of Blue Note and Angel Records said: "Blue Note and Angel are pleased and excited to offer up more musical treasures from our vast catalog of jazz and classics for online use. Now, thanks to Musicmaker.com, greats from Monk to Mozart and from Hancock to Haydn can be accessed and customized for individual listeners." Angel Records is the label responsible for marketing EMI Classics & Virgin Classics in the United States in addition to generating and marketing its own domestically-signed artists such as Sarah Brightman and Anoushka Shankar.

EMI Classics Titles Available on Musicmaker.com

- Seminal works by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey
and Eric Dolphy.

- Significant catalogs from the key career eras of Herbie Hancock, Wayne
Shorter, Jimmy Smith, Thelonious Monk and Joe Henderson.

- Recordings by leading instrumental soloists, including

cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, pianist Martha Argerich, and

Kennedy, the incendiary violinist.

- Historic recordings by some of the most important classical

artists of the past century, including such legendary names

as conductors Wilhelm Furtwangler and Thomas Beecham,

baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, sopranos Elisabeth

Schwarzkopf and Victoria de los Angeles, violinist Sir Yehudi

Menuhin, and pianists Walter Gieseking, Alfred Cortot, and

Dinu Lipatti.

A World of Blue Note Jazz

- Seminal works by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey
and Eric Dolphy.

- Significant catalogs from the key career eras of Herbie Hancock, Wayne
Shorter, Jimmy Smith, Thelonious Monk and Joe Henderson.

- Critically acclaimed contemporary artists including Cassandra

Wilson, Charlie Hunter, Joe Lovano and Don Byron.

- Historically important recordings from Charlie Parker, Dizzy

Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell and Max Roach.

Based in NY, Musicmaker.com, with offices in Reston, VA, is a leading global custom CD compilation and digital download Internet music company. Musicmaker.com offers music lovers the opportunity to build their own CDs by selecting songs from a library of more than 160,000 tracks from over 165 labels in a variety of music genres. The company is publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol HITS.

Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including statements concerning the Company's expectation that certain titles will appear on the website in the near future. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results or performance of the Company, to be materially different from any future results or performance indicated or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include and/or concern, among other things, the Company's limited operating history, the effect of litigation in which the company is involved, uncertainty concerning content it is able to obtain under its license agreements with EMI Recorded Music, Zomba music and other companies, general economic and business conditions with respect to the Internet and online commerce, Musicmaker.com's ability to predict trends and preferences in the changing music industry, Musicmaker.com's ability to obtain music rights and to obtain such rights to music that is in demand by music consumers, potential legal obstacles to obtaining rights to music titles including restrictive contractual provisions in contracts between artists and record companies from whom we obtain content, difficulty obtaining and/or inability to obtain rights to music by top selling artists, competition from record labels and competitor, the availability of free music at websites such as napster.com, as well as the risks set forth in the Company's Registration Statement filed on Form S-1 dated as of July 7, 1999 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K dated December 31, 1999 and risk factors listed from time to time in other SEC filings.