Ourstage
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OurStage.com is a web and mobile-based music community offering free music streaming, discovery, and editorial content. It is owned and operated by OurStage Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
. Founded in 2007, OurStage.com holds monthly sponsored competitions for artists to compete, win prizes, and publicize themselves.
OurStage.com's proprietary judging software allows its users to listen, judge and rank music artists. The site was originally developed as a crowdsourced
way to hear new music and raise it up through the charts.
, pop
, urban
, and country music
.
Local, regional, and national competitions award cash prizes or music industry opportunities to winners chosen through fan judging or by industry experts. Competitions have included Guitar Center's Your Next Record with Keith Urban, Drake's Thank Me Later Competition, the Lilith Local Talent Search as part of Lilith Fair
2010, and John Mayer
's Side Stage Warfare Competition.
(former Chairman and CEO of Sony Music), Gary Cohen (founder of MusicNow), David Moore (founder and Chairman of RealMedia
, Inc.), Bill Wittenberg (co-founder and former CTO of Maven Networks, Inc.), and Ray Volpe (Chairman & CEO of Kaleidoscope Sports and Entertainment).
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Chelmsford is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 33,802. The Census Bureau's 2008 population estimate for the town was 34,409, ranking it 14th in population among the 54 municipalities in...
. Founded in 2007, OurStage.com holds monthly sponsored competitions for artists to compete, win prizes, and publicize themselves.
OurStage.com's proprietary judging software allows its users to listen, judge and rank music artists. The site was originally developed as a crowdsourced
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
way to hear new music and raise it up through the charts.
Features
OurStage allows streaming music for free to users through its web site or an iPhone app, with 40 styles of music including rockRock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, urban
Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
, and country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
.
Local, regional, and national competitions award cash prizes or music industry opportunities to winners chosen through fan judging or by industry experts. Competitions have included Guitar Center's Your Next Record with Keith Urban, Drake's Thank Me Later Competition, the Lilith Local Talent Search as part of Lilith Fair
Lilith Fair
Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. It took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999, and was revived in the summer of 2010. It...
2010, and John Mayer
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...
's Side Stage Warfare Competition.
Partners
OurStage past and present partners and sponsors include Intel and Cakewalk, AOL, CMJ Network, MTV and Clear Channel.Board
OurStage, Inc.'s Board of Directors includes Don IennerDon Ienner
Don Ienner was the Chairman of the Sony Music Label Group during first half of the decade of the 2000s. He worked closely with his predecessor Tommy Mottola and was partially responsible for the breakthrough of Mariah Carey....
(former Chairman and CEO of Sony Music), Gary Cohen (founder of MusicNow), David Moore (founder and Chairman of RealMedia
RealMedia
RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. Its extension is ".rm". It is typically used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio and is used for streaming content over the Internet....
, Inc.), Bill Wittenberg (co-founder and former CTO of Maven Networks, Inc.), and Ray Volpe (Chairman & CEO of Kaleidoscope Sports and Entertainment).
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External links
- OurStage.com CEO Benjamin Campbell on New England Cable News, NECN, May 2007
- Boston: The Hidden Hub of Music and Technology, Xconomy.com, October 2007
- OurStage Beefs Up Systems and Storage for Music Web Site, Network Computing, May 2009
- OurStage Act Gaining Partnership Audience Amid Economic Downturn, Xconomy.com, October 2007
- Business Matters: Ourstage, HMV, iTunes and more, Billboard, September 2010
- http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourstage.com#Alexa InternetAlexa InternetAlexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
Scoring ] - http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/2011/09/music-ourstageCool Site of the DayCool Site of the DayCool Site of the Day is an early website created in August 1994 and originally maintained by Glenn Davis. Linking to one single recommended site off its homepage each day, it soon became an arbiter of taste on the Internet....
Feature September 17th, 2011 ] - OurStage.com Launches Songs of the Revolution Live Recordings Series ARTIST Direct, November 30th, 2011