YR Campaigns Shortlisted for Interactive Music Awards

Thursday, November 18th, 1999

Two of YR’s online games for Wall of Sound have been shortlisted for this years Interactive Music Awards and now face a public vote to decide the Best Web-based Music Game of 2003. Our two contenders are the Off the Wall Game, to celebrate 10 years of Wall of Sound www.offthewallgame.co.uk and bling bling shootout game for Blak Twang’s ‘So Rotten’ campaign www.yourrelease.com/out/twang/rotton/blaktwang.html.

Vote for your favourite web-based music game and you could be in with a chance of winning a BT Home Computing PC and 12 months rental of Broadband from BT. Five runners up will receive an Xbox console. A text costs 50p plus your standard operator costs on some networks. Voting will end before Midnight on 30 November 2003.

So, We need your votes! To vote for the

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or

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G - Unit Shift Album Release

Thursday, November 11th, 1999

Because of an online internet leak, Interscope Records, 50 Cent and the G-Unit have decided to move their album Beg For Mercy up to November 14, the same day as the Jay-Z’s Black Album.

Lloyd Banks, one of the founding members of G-Unit, explained that he heard of the leak as he and the group toured in support of the project.

“I was in Detroit and I got word that they leaked the albums – the Black Album and our album in the internet. It had got leaked the night before [the Detroit tour date] so that meant the bootleggers are gonna be out [selling it] in the next two days,”. [more @ www.allhiphop.com]