TouchTunes Interactive Networks, Sony Music Entertainment Announce National Jukebox Tribute To Carlos Santana
New Album Guitar Heaven Available on TouchTunes Digital Jukeboxes Beginning Sept. 21
NEW YORK - September 13, 2010 - TouchTunes Interactive Networks, the largest interactive in-venue entertainment network in North America, and Sony Music Entertainment today announced a national promotion of Carlos Santana’s new album, Guitar Heaven: Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time on TouchTunes Digital Jukeboxes and BarflyTV screens. The promotion will begin September 21, 2010, coinciding with the album debut, and will run for two weeks.
The longest-running, most successful partnership in the history of rock takes flight anew, as legendary Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees Carlos Santana and Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, collaborate on the brand new concept album, Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time, arriving in stores September 21st on Arista Records. The album was co-produced by Howard Benson, Matt Serletic, Clive Davis, and Carlos Santana. The album consists of a range of songs with guitar-centric titles and an impressive array of guest vocalists on each track including:
• "Whole Lotta Love" featuring Chris Cornell (Led Zeppelin)
• "Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’" featuring Scott Weiland (The Rolling Stones)
• "Sunshine Of Your Love" featuring Rob Thomas (Cream)
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" featuring india.arie and Yo-Yo Ma (The Beatles)
• "Dance the Night Away" featuring Pat Monahan (Van Halen)
• "Back In Black" featuring Nas and Robyn Troup (AC/DC)
• "Riders On the Storm" featuring Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
• "Smoke On the Water" featuring Jacoby Shaddix (Deep Purple)
• "Photograph" featuring Chris Daughtry (Def Leppard)
• "Bang A Gong" featuring Gavin Rossdale (T. Rex)
• "Little Wing" featuring Joe Cocker (Jimi Hendrix)
• "I Ain’t Superstitious" featuring Jonny Lang (Howlin’ Wolf, Jeff Beck Group)
"TouchTunes has always celebrated great music," said Vicki Saunders, TouchTunes Vice President, Digital Media and Music Marketing. "With such legendary talent like Santana and the range of contributing artists on the album, we couldn’t think of a better fit for our audience."
To further pay tribute to the upcoming album, TouchTunes Interactive Networks will be collaborating with Sony Music Entertainment to host three pre-release listening parties in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles on September 16. Santana fans who attend the events will get a first listen to the album before it officially hits stores on September 21. The events will take place at the following TouchTunes locations at 8 p.m.:
Sonny McLeans
2615 Wilshire Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Saluki Bar
1208 N.Wells St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Village Tavern
46 Bedford St.
New York, NY
About TouchTunes Interactive Networks
TouchTunes Interactive Networks is the largest out-of-home interactive entertainment, advertising and commerce network in North America. TouchTunes provides entertainment and marketing solutions to more than 45,000 bars, restaurants, and retailers. Since TouchTunes introduced the world’s first digital downloading, pay-per-play jukebox in 1998, the network has become the largest of its kind in the nation, with a growing library of more than three million licensed music tracks. Customers play close to 2 million songs across the network, on average, every day. TouchTunes delivered more than 750 million songs in 2009 alone. TouchTunes’ Barfly solution delivers a unique, on-location interactive television experience with a screen-within-a-screen for scheduled programming, custom advertising, bar promotions and social networking opportunities. TouchTunes is a privately held U.S. corporation with offices in New York City, Arlington Heights, Illinois and Montreal, Canada. For further information please visit www.touchtunes.com.
About Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. It is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre, including American Recordings, Arista Nashville, Arista Records, Battery Records, Beach Street Records, Black Seal, BNA Records, Cinematic, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Essential Records, Flicker Records, Fo-Yo Soul, GospoCentric, Hitz Committee Entertainment, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Legacy Recordings, Masterworks, Polo Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, RCA Red Seal, RCA Victor, Reunion Records, Slightly Dangerous, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Verity Records, and Volcano Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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