Free FrostWire ‘1st million’ album
Indie artist site and p2pnet supporter Frostwire has built a compilation album with 21 hit songs from artists promoted on FrostWire and FrostClick.
The tunes add up to the first million downloads, say the guys, pointing out the music has been distributed through the BitTorrent and Gnutella networks with FrostWire.
“In November 2008 we came up with the idea to team up with FrostWire to really go after world class content creators that were willing to share their work for free,” they say, going on >>>
At the beginning the search was hard, we had to come up with a series of requirements so that we could guarantee great quality content and it quickly became the rule of thumb that if the entire team would have their music in our portable mp3 players that was a strong sign that the artist should be promoted.
This compilation brings you the best of the best in free music that the FrostClick Team came across during the first months of 2009. In only 21 weeks we had our first 1,000,000 copies distributed, some artists reaching over 75 thousand downloads during their promotion (7 to 10 days), nowadays FrostWire artists can get over 100 thousand downloads during their runs on the FrostWire welcome screen.
Virtual Booklet
After years of buying hundreds of CDs and many times being frustrated with lousy CD Booklets (no lyrics, no cool pictures) we decided you should not suffer the same disappointment with our compilation. You’re not only going to download a compilation with high quality mp3 hits, but you will get a Virtual Booklet with 44 high resolution pages which you can decide to print, or see with your favorite image viewer (you can even redistribute them since the art is all licensed under Creative Commons as well)
For each artist we’ve included 2 high resolution booklet pages with information about the artist, song, license, number of downloads, facts and where available we’ve even put the lyrics of the song to sing along.
A web page (booklet.html) has been included at the root of the compilation folder, you can open it to see the booklet in a very convenient way. Images will automatically adjust their sizes to your web browser window, an they’re presented in pairs, on the left the artist on the right: song lyrics, interviews or important facts about the artist.
The compilation booklet also includes some of the best photos sent by FrostWire users, featuring FrostWire inspired Art and pictures of the FrostWire Stickers all over the world.
The Booklet has been created keeping in mind the standard size of the regular CD Booklets in case you wish to print for a physical CD.
You can try a low resolution preview of the booklet.
Download Numbers
| Sean Fournier | +35,600 |
| Audra Hardt | +30,400 |
| Ray Sytes | +50,000 |
| T.G. on “Tha Throwback” produced by Cartel | +39,000 |
| Georgia Wonder | +50,000 |
| K. Sparks & Pajozo | +26,300 |
| Farkus | +42,100 |
| ESPSIX | +69,900 |
| Black ELement | +63,300 |
| Brad Sucks | +40,200 |
| Tiara Wiles | +63,800 |
| The Johns | +51,100 |
| Mike Falzone | +32,400 |
| Matt Pond PA | +40,000 |
| LoveJones & Phys Edison | +81,100 |
| Legacy | +61,100 |
| PreZZure on “Offshore Drilling” produced by Kid Hum | +58,600 |
| Glass Waves | +59,400 |
| Fhernando | +60,000 |
| Djizoes | +52,600 |
| Steven Dunston | +75,700 |
| Total | +1,082,600 |
FrostWire FrostClick promotions have now totaled over 1,725,000 downloads and a second compilation album is already on its way.
Artist’s Websites
(In order of appearance in the CD)
Sean Fournier, the first artist to believe in us, who then brought along other great artists like Mike Falzone.
Audra Hardt, our first rock and female artist to be promoted, all the way from LA.
Ray Sytes on MySpace, first hip hop promotion from New York.
Georgia Wonder, we put their torrent on The Pirate Bay tracker and with their help spreading the word the album got to the top 20 most popular music downloads in The Pirate Bay. We love Georgia Wonder and they always stay in touch via twitter.
ESPSIX from Czech Republic, first dance promotion to show us what big download numbers could be.
Black ELement from Boston, a truly amazing rapper now a friend of the site and who’s now helping us promote Outasight, another hip hop artist that recently got signed.
Brad Sucks, one of the most prominent advocates of Creative Commons movement and one hell of an all round musician and singer.
Tiara the first R&B female singer to be promoted on FrostClick.
The Johns’ Website
Mike Falzone’s Homepage
Matt Pond PA’s Website
LoveJones’ aka Mike Schpitz’s Website, a relentless hip hop artist who keeps pushing new singles month after month. Make sure you check out his cool videos.
Legacy on MySpace
Kid Hum on MySpace
Glass Waves’s Website
Fhernando’s Website
Djizoes: Website (currently undergoing remodeling)
Steven Dunston’s Website
Here’s a Twitter List of the artists that have been promoted by FrostClick on FrostWire.
Good job well done, guys.
Who needs the Big 4 corporate stumblebums, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music?
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