Lycos Gets Music Fans Into the Interactive Groove With Grammy Contests, News, Downloads

Business Wire, Feb 10, 2000

Music Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2000

Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCOS), one of the most visited Web destinations in the world, today announced that music fans can get into the groove on the Lycos Network with up-to-the-minute Grammy information including online &uot;Grammy picks&uot; contests, backstage news on nominated artists, and MP3 downloads.

What's shakin' across the Lycos Network:

&uot;Crystal Ball&uot; Grammy Contest

Lycos's Gamesville site today launched its first annual &uot;Crystal Ball&uot; Grammy contest at http://www.gamesville.com. Music fans can cast their ballots for winners in the top Grammy award categories. Entries received by February 22 at 11:59 p.m. EST qualify for prizes including a home audio equipment shopping spree worth $1,000, a Phillips dual CD recorder and changer, and a Shockwave portable CD player by Panasonic.

Lycos Music's Grammy Nominees Download Guide

At Lycos Music, the most comprehensive online music destination, music fans can check out the Grammy Nominees Download Guide at http://listen.lycos.com/grammy_jump.jsp, a great place for quickly locating downloadable music by this year's Grammy Nominees. Music fans can also get the latest news surrounding the hottest music event of the year from the front door of Lycos Music at http://music.lycos.com.

Most Popular Music Artist Searches

According to this week's Lycos 50, http://50.lycos.com , a list of the most popular people, places and things users are searching for on the Web, the most searched for music artist is Britney Spears. The full &uot; Top 10&uot; list of artists includes the Backstreet Boys (No. 2), Jennifer Lopez (No. 3), Mariah Carey (No. 4), N'Sync (No. 5), Christina Aguilera (No. 6), Shania Twain (No. 7), Korn (No. 8), Metallica (No. 9) and Blink 182 (No. 10). Stay tuned to see how these &uot;Web&uot; winners compare with the actual Grammy winners during the live February 23 broadcast of this year's Grammy Awards.

About Lycos

Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services, including homepage building, free Web-based e-mail, clubs, chat, instant messaging; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center featuring more than 2,400 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Suck.com, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville and Lycos Zone. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com), &uot;Your Personal Internet Guide,&uot; is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America.

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