PRINCE HONORED AS WEB VISIONARY...SWEET.

Prince honored as Web 'visionary'
Prince will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at this year's Webby online awards for his use of the Internet to distribute music and connect with audiences.

In a statement Wednesday, Tiffany Shlain, founder of the awards, described Prince as a "musical genius" and "a visionary, who recognized early on that the Web would completely change how we experience music."

The 47-year-old pop superstar was the first major artist to release an entire album, 1997's "Crystal Ball," exclusively on the Web, according to the announcement, and "long before MySpace and iTunes, Prince used the Web as a new way to distribute music, premiere videos and build his relationship with his fans."

His Web site, www.npgmusicclub.com, has more than seven full-length CDs of music unavailable elsewhere.

The awards ceremony will take place June 12 at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. Rob Corddry of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" will host the show.

Prince will be honored along with winners in 69 categories, as well as five other special-achievement recipients, including Thomas Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times; Gorillaz, a cartoon-fronted rock group; and the founders of the popular social networking site MySpace.com.

The awards, in their 10th year, are given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a group of more than 500 experts on the Internet and other specialties.

Winners and special-achievement honorees are limited to five-word acceptance speeches.



http://www.cnn.com/2006/S...dex.html#1

Anybody care to start the ball rolling on this one and have a little fun?

Oooooohhh.....this could be fun to watch.

Yea, I'm sure that when Prince gets the award he will say this shit about micro chips in necks and the like. Hope somebody throws a purple banana at him.

Webby online awards for his use of the Internet to distribute music and connect with audiences.

Um he hasn't done a thing with 3121 on the internet.

And Obviously they don't know about the "lack" of music he has to offer on his site.

to further prove his genius....his club members have recently gone to his site and paid $312.01 for a ticket that is unavailable elsewhere

Crystal Ball was hardly an internet release. He simply advertised it and took orders online... something that had been going on quite a while in the world of bits and bytes...

CONGRATULATIONS PRINCE!!

Here comes the Critics

five words?

let me slip my seven inch in your computer...


is that five?

sosgemini said:

I be damn...

Oh shit Prince is going to be in NYC all week. He better do a show somewhere during his stay.

BananaCologne said:

Sure...

It could be much better.

Doozer said:

cause baby i'm a star..... =5 words.....

dig my featured topic!

He totally is. He was on this shit very early on and blazed his own trail with internet marketing.

purplecam said:

Okay, that's what I'm talking about! Maybe there is hope for the GMA performance and (dare I say) a concert?

But is it for sure that he is going to be at the Webby thing?



~~makes mental note to stroll by Cipriani on June 12~~

5 words..... join my club and pay?

Still
Waiting
For
My
Order.....

http://www.mnd.bbb.org/co...d=21003796
[Edited 6/1/06 1:43am]

superspaceboy said:

Which lack of music would that be?

At last count there were 12 singles, 12 albums and 6 videos available for download at NPGMC. Of those, 11 of the singles and 6 of the albums aren't available anywhere else.

I've yet to find another musician's website that has anywhere near that amount of exclusive material on it.

Yeay, congrats on finding a new way to fleece the masses.
Long story short, paid for 12 months 1st year of npgmc, only got 11, absolute refusal to allow me to get what I paid for, was told I had to pay for year 2, then I could get the rest of year 1.

anotherpimpfleecingthemassesholeinyohead

"Money for nothing is visionary?"

Hows that for a 5 word speech

yes but George Michael was the first to let his fans download his music for FREE

awards are just a way of filling up the hole inside us that are created by exoteric vanity - so it seems

and keep in mind that the folks who give out these awards arent aware of the many many other artists in the world that were doing it long before him

Doozer said:

co-sign.

CandaceS said:

ouch!

p0et said:

Perhaps the fans should win the award for logging onto his site in the first place? Just a thought.