Fliptunes Signs Up the Largest Music Label in the World
July 4— MCA Music Inc, local office of Universal Music Group Inc., the world’s largest music company, signs up their music to Fliptunes Inc., the largest music portal in the Philippines and home to the best, widest collection of Filipino music ever to be uploaded for digital distribution.
“The internet’s unlimited storage capacity is a good opportunity for record companies to dig into our archives, which include vintage, hard –to-find music as well as current hits and bring those to music fans,” says. Ricky Ilacad, President of MCA Music Inc. MCA Music. “I hope this long-term strategy will satisfy consumer demand, and increase purchases of music online. It is the company’s first steps in a major multi-year program to make hundreds of thousands of titles available again exclusively as digital downloads. “I am glad Fliptunes is part of this historical breakthrough in the music business in this country.”
“Filipino music is now digitally available to more countries around the world, and music has never been so conveniently purchased until now” says Ronald Aniceto, President of Fliptunes Inc. Fliptunes is a product of years research together with Mozcom Inc.-the Philippine’s largest ISP. It was modeled after some of the more acceptable and successful portals from other regions with some improvements and adjustments to suit the company’s objectives for its market. Fliptunes Inc. has the business model that meets the music industry’s international standards, including Microsoft’s Windows Media copyright protection technology.
“Passing the rigid technology standards of MCA, we just have to have what it takes,” states Robertson Chiang, Chief Technology Officer of Fliptunes Inc. “We’re excited over the fact that we’re uploading thousands of their music as contents for FliptunesPLUS as we speak.” FliptunesPLUS.net is the other music portal managed by the company for international music contents.
With over hundreds of thousands of titles available for download, managing music in your PC or laptop is advisable nowadays. Depending on your mobile phone capability, you can transfer music through wifi anytime. Phone models today can store some 6,000 songs any time. The best feature Fliptunes has offered for local buyers is online payment not only by credit cards, and debit cards but ATM cards as well.
The contract signing, witnessed by guests and media friends, was covered by MTV Philippines, ETC and Jack TV. It featured a show titled Star Spangled, with performances by Chicosci, Julianne and Miguel Escueta and hosted by NU 107 host Dylan.