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August 28, 2001 at 5:00 am #16054BigBlueBall NewsMember
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August 28, 2001
For a 14-year-old aspiring pop musician, an instant chat buddy devoted to your songs could mean “You have got stardom.”
Lindsay Pagano, a wunderkind whose first full-length album will be released by Warner Bros. Records this fall, is hoping that instant messaging can help propel her to the top of the charts. On Tuesday, the record label launched a specialized chat buddy on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) to answer questions about Paganos upcoming album, lyrics and inspiration.
“Lindsay is an IM fan and user herself, so it makes sense to have her interact with her new fans through this medium,” Betty Lin, Warner Bros. senior manager for new media, said in a statement.
Pagano may be the first teenager with a self-branded IM agent, but not the first musician. Earlier this summer, Capitol Records introduced a first-of-its-kind instant chat buddy for fans of the popular band Radiohead, promoting its latest album to stellar response. Now Warner Bros. is following suit, a further sign that major record labels hope to grab music fans where they live online.
The buddies, engineered by technology company ActiveBuddy, respond to natural language queries by delivering information, Web links and services on demand via instant messengers. The new agent for Pagano, called “LindsayBuddy,” sits on AIM buddy lists, ultimately to promote the artist and her upcoming album “Love & Faith & Inspiration,” due out Oct. 23. Fans can add the name to their buddy lists to pull up Paganos concert information, her biography, horoscopes, games or movie information.
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