Los Angeles and New York- Pressplay, a leading music service, and Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced that the companies have entered into non-exclusive agreements making WMG the fifth major music company to provide content to the pressplay service. Within several weeks, pressplay will add tens of thousands of songs by artists from WMG's world-renowned record labels Atlantic, Elektra, Warner Bros., Lava, Word and Rhino to its online library. Under two separate non-exclusive agreements, pressplay members will have access to WMG's content through the service and, in addition, have the ability to purchase tracks that can be downloaded to a PC, transferred to a secure portable device, and burned to a CD.

"By adding Warner Music Group's great artists to the pressplay service we have now rounded out our offering to include music from all five major labels," said Michael Bebel, president and chief executive officer of pressplay. "Through this agreement with WMG, our members will have access to even more great songs that they can burn, download, stream, transfer to portable devices and enjoy offline."

"With these latest agreements, we can continue to pursue our strategy of making our artists' music available to a variety of services in a way that addresses the consumer's desire to experience music securely and with maximum flexibility," said Paul Vidich, executive vice president, strategic planning and business development for Warner Music Group. "We're delighted to work with pressplay and we're confident that its innovative service and broad content offering will provide consumers with an attractive online music experience."

Launched in the U.S. in December 2001, pressplay is one of the only online music subscription services to offer subscribers broad portability options along with an unlimited number of streams and downloads. Pressplay also offers more than 25 professionally programmed stations on Radio pressplay. Pressplay is available through MSN, Yahoo, MP3.com, Roxio and Sony Musiclub. Last month pressplay also became accessible on the "services" tab of Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 9 Series, exposing tens of millions of Windows Media users to the pressplay service.

About pressplay

Launched in December 2001, pressplay is an equally held joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (a unit of Vivendi Universal), and has offices in Los Angeles and New York City. Music companies, including BMG, EMI Recorded Music, Madacy, Matador, Navarre, OWIE, Razor & Tie, Roadrunner, Rounder, Sanctuary, Sony Music Entertainment, TVT, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Zomba separately provide their content to pressplay on a non-exclusive basis. Pressplay is marketed to consumers through relationships with MP3.com, MSN Music, pressplay Connect, Roxio, Sony Music Club and Yahoo!. An independent executive team with deep music, programming, technology and business experience leads the company.

About Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group is home to some of the world's leading record companies, including The Atlantic Group, Elektra Entertainment Group, Rhino Entertainment, Warner Bros. Records Inc. and Word Entertainment. The company's Warner Music International, with a roster of more than 1,000 artists, operates in more than 70 countries through various subsidiaries, affiliates and non-affiliated licensees. Warner Music Group also includes one of the world's leading music and print music publishers, Warner/Chappell, and WEA, Inc., which is composed of three companies, WEA Corp., WEA Manufacturing, and Ivy Hill. Warner Music Group is an AOL Time Warner company. For more information about Warner Music Group visit our corporate website at