Nashville Bound Wrecks MySpace Top Artist Credibility

IVY HOLLOW MEDIA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2007

Nashville Bound Quietly Wrecks MySpace Top Artist Credibility

Nashville Bound, the renegade outlaw band from Music City USA has made a shambles of the MySpace so called music experts ranking system for the month of May finishing in the top 5 in Swing and top 10 in Western Swing in MySpace plays per day the entire month of May. Yet the valley boys of MySpace, still having trouble accepting a country band on top of the Swing charts, bounced the band around the ratings like a whacked out hacker ranking them everywhere from #14 to #90.

It seems this unsigned country band has totally confounded the MySpace gurus while leaving the vast majority of MySpace ranked bands in their dust, thousands of plays behind the bad boys of Nashville. To add insult to injury, nearly a dozen emails have been sent to the MySpace experts questioning their bizzare rankings and the only MySpace reaction has been to address unrelated issues with computer generated responses. Do any humans actually work at MySpace?

Speculation is that unsigned bands with no contract with MySpace as a record label or merchandiser will be penalized if they do not advertise on the Murdock owned MySpace, and music experts at MySpace seem to have no regard for the fans playing the songs of groups like Nashville Bound. Is there a conflict of interest when a rating company like MySpace ignores the fans? Is it a monopolistic unfair business practice when MySpace can refuse to recognize their own statistics like plays today?

The latte sippers at MySpace seem to get away with anything unlike another Murdock entertainment endeavor American Idol where the votes of the fans dictate the results of the judging. Perhaps Murdock, News Corp or Fox should investigate their internet money machine and make sure the payola practices still prevalent in the record and radio industry have not seduced the music experts of MySpace.

So the Nashville Bound outlaws continue destroying the credibility of the MySpace Top Artist ratings every day that MySpace music experts refuse to reward their performance earned by the action of the fans. Then again what would one expect when the music experts at MySpace have rap and hip hop bands at the top of the Western Swing charts?

One day congress, the Justice Department, the FTC, the SEC and FCC might wake up and see that unfair business practices, restraint of trade, monopolistic practices and very stupid management are a dangerous combination in cyber space and do not serve the public interest. Then again, how much does the corporate conglomerate MySpace contribute to political campaigns?


Jordan Christopher
IvyonOak@yahoo.com

NASHVILLE BOUND EXPLODES ON MYSPACE CHARTS

New Songs Power Nashville Bound to #2 on MySpace!

This past weekend, May 11-13, Nashville Bound finished #2 on the MySpace Top Artist Swing chart with 353 total plays on Sunday. Of course the silicone valley music experts, in a quandry over how to rank the Music City outlaws, today listed the band #73, not #2 like the fans demonstrated.

While Nashville Bound stunned the experts with 353 plays, MySpace ranked a band #2 with 304 plays, #3 with 162 plays, #4 with 88 plays and #5 with 90 plays for the day. Every band between #2 and #72 on the MySpace chart had far fewer plays than the Nashville Bound powerhouse.

New releases "What Life's All About" and "Photographs" posted by Nashville Bound Sunday both reached nearly 100 plays their first day out, an astonishing performance that continued to confound the silicone valley music experts.

"Margarita You're Such A Cheater", the signature hit that reached #1 on Soundclick charts and is the most popular song on their MySpace site gave the band 3 songs, each with enough plays to merit top 10 ranking on their own.

When asked to comment on the latest bizzare ranking at MySpace Nashville Bound founder and song writer Jim Putnam issued the following statement.

"For 2 weeks we have tried to get MySpace Music to explain to us why we aren't in the top 10. So far we received 3 stupid responses having nothing to do with our questions. Their silence on our absence from the top 10 in Swing and top 100 in Western Swing has forced us to take our case to the public.

"Since only 3 country-swing bands show up in the top 100 for unsigned artists one wonders if the silicone valley experts are aware of the rich tradition of country swing and jive in our nation's history. The fans sure are, fans from around the world that listen to us.

"In the end we play for the fans, not the experts. We just want MySpace to let people know how the fans have voted us #2, and how much we appreciate their support. Sometimes I wonder if the so called silicone valley experts have been out of diapers long enough to even know what country music means to America and the world."