Roussos Group of Companies has acquired the .us extension for music (www.music.us), the music broadcasting radio domain extension (www.music.fm), the MP3 streaming domain extension (www.mp3.fm), the music professional networking domain extension (www.music.pro) and the instant messaging domain extension (www.music.im).

 

RGC is currently testing the Beta version of the widely anticipated Music.us network run by artists, the industry and entertainment lovers.

Our main goal is fulfilling the needs of entertainment lovers as well as giving industry professionals and artists an interactive medium for finding potential business partners, conducting business, discovering artists, intermingling with fans, colleagues, entertainment professionals and the music community.

 

Music.us vows to be the web's most comprehensive professional and community-based networking site for the entertainment industry with ecommerce functionalites and state of the art technologies including Hit Prediction. It gives industry professionals and artists an interactive medium for finding potential business partners, conducting business, discovering artists, intermingling with fans and colleagues, as well as interacting with entertainment professionals and the music community. Music.us focuses primarily on music but it also embraces all other forms of entertainment such as music, film, fashion, visual arts, performing arts and applied arts. By taking online networking and its many applications to a whole new level, Music.us provides a versatile communication platform for the entertainment industry and a ground for revenue generation in the form of music and video downloads, licensing as well as revenue sharing in advertising.

 

Aspiring and established artists can take advantage of the Music.us multi-faceted distribution channel to showcase their talent and work, while gaining worldwide exposure. Music.us is designed for people to build key relationships. Music.us provides artists with complementary developmental tools to help them promote themselves globally. Artists can effectively interact with other artists and network with industry professionals who can help them advance their careers. In addition, artists can post their news, events as well as socialize directly with their fans. Most importantly artists can make money, share gigs with other musicians as well as be able to promote themselves using our discovery channels such as Musical-P2P and Musical-IQ. Unlike other sites we will offer musicians a platform to add their fans as well as offer them tools to increase their sales as well as get paid on a per monthly basis.

 

Music.us offers artists the opportunity to sell their music digitally on a worldwide basis, sell tickets to their shows, as well as license their content for movies, TV, ads, radio, games on-demand. Members can upload text, images, audio or video clips in many different media formats creating compelling and comprehensive portfolios of their work. Industry professionals, artists and entertainment lovers can now enjoy profiles and feature media such as an artist's new music release, an actor's demo reel or a model's latest photo shoot. Our user-friendly site allows members to post jobs and events, invite friends and colleagues to join their network and utilize electronic calendars/alerts to schedule their next music concert, audition or appointment. Communication features include email, instant messaging, invitations, audio/video chat. To facilitate social or professional connections, Music.us employs powerful networking tools with virtual invitation capabilities. These tools enable users to make virtual introductions within the network.

 

The Music.us Video Aggregator Search combines video content from affiliate partner Google, YouTube, MetaCafe, Blip.tv, DailyMotion, Revver, Veoh and other popular video networking sites, making Music.us the largest video aggregator online. Music.us also will engage in worldwide television broadcasting of 1200+ channels in its IP TV interface as well as streaming of 5000+ stations in its Radio Stations interface.

 

Affiliate partners include:

 

Guitar Center

 

Musicians Friend

 

BMG Music

 

Google

 

eBay

 

Napster

 

Real Networks

 

Sony Music

 

Amazon

 

Wal-Mart

 

eMusic

 

Verizon

 

Yahoo

 

Apple

 

Jamster and others.

 

Music Production

 

Roussos Group of Companies has produced albums from artists including:

 

A Family of Snail

 

Snakecharmer

 

Katie Quinlan

 

Some Change From Us

 

A Pigeon's Rhythm

 

and is currently working with upcoming talent Silver Man Hood.