[This is my Trail] Free music downloads!

[Rachelle]

Yes, this is why I have studied Chinese for such a long time....to be able to legally download music from Google China. As has been in the news this weekend, google.cn is now offering free and legal music downloads in both English and Chinese (and in fact Japanese and Korean). They seem to have quite a decent collection of new American music. The artists that have been most popular so far have a little red 热! (re), which means hot, next to them. It's a very funny cultural exercise to see which musicians are "re" in the Chinese market.

Here is a partial list (disclaimer: of course, for your amusement, I have chosen the most embarrassing and strange "hot" artists):

• Backstreet Boys
• Barry Manilow
• Celine Dion
• Enya
• Hanson
• Kenny G
• Kenny Rogers
• Michael Bolton
• Wham!
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Yanni

Here are the lists of English songs: Male Singers, Female Singers, and Bands/Groups. I'm not sure that it will work outside of China, though.

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Posted By Rachelle to This is my Trail at 4/20/2009 12:50:00 AM