Over-55 music fans urged to get streaming for free and legal music online

25/06/2009

Last month (June), the Government’s Digital Britain report outlined stricter penalties for people accessing ‘pirated’ music online but online music jukebox 'We7' has found that two in three (64%) consumers do not know how to access music legally.

We7 wants to help the retired community enjoy music across the web without fear of penalties and fines and to help teach them about legal streaming and sharing online.

How to stream

1.       Go to www.we7.com (linked below)
2.       Register - you’ll need: username, password, e-mail, gender, DOB & postcode
3.       Activate - an email will be sent immediately to the e-mail provided in registration, open it and click ‘activate’. This will open We7 logged in to your account
4.       Search using to search bar: any song by name, artist or album
5.       Select the version you want
6.       Play! And/or add song to playlist of your choice, or queue it up to play next.
7.       Enjoy!

From easy listening to jazz, classical to country as well as all the latest chart hits, with over 4 million tracks on the site, We7 is bound to have something to suit your tastes.

Have a go

To encourage more people to have a go at streaming music themselves, We7 has introduced a fun competition called Me7 – the 7 songs that define Me.

A month-long competition with prizes to be won, the ‘Me7’ challenge invites everyone, from novices to seasoned streamers, to create a 7-song playlist of tracks that best defines their life in music - from a teenage anthem to a first dance track – the difficult part will be shortlisting down to just 7 tunes!

The Me7 competition will run for four weeks from 24th June.  Each week, the most played playlist will receive a £1,000 cash prize.  At the end of the 4 week competition, the most played playlist overall will win £3,000!

7 steps to winning:

1)      Build a Playlist of seven songs at http://www.we7.com/#/competition/me7
2)      Describe track by track why the playlist defines your life in music
3)      Enter your playlist into the competition from 24th June
4)      Share, Share Share – use twitter, emails, social networks and share the link to your playlist and have it played as many times as you can by as many people to stand a chance of winning
5)      Do this for one whole week and see if you’ve won
6)      The winner for a weekly prize will be the person whose playlist is played the most in the week
7)      The competition will produce four winners and the winner of the Grand Prize will be the one who out of the four who had the highest play count in any one week

Relevant links

• We7 (Opens a new window)