Napster Launches Digital Music Service in Germany

Napster Launches Digital Music Service in Germany

Napster Germany Brings First Subscription Service and Largest Digital Music Catalog to Music Fans Across the Country

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Napster (NASDAQ:NAPS), the biggest brand in digital music, launched its award-winning digital music service across Germany today. Napster Germany is the first and only subscription music service available to music fans across the region. German residents can download Napster for free at www.napster.de, where they can also sign up for a free seven-day trial of the service. Napster Germany features over 1.5 million songs -- the largest digital music catalog available in the country -- and offers both the Napster subscription service (euro 9.95 per month) as well as the Napster To Go portable subscription service (euro 14.95 per month). German music fans can also purchase songs and albums a la carte for 99 cents and euro 9.95, respectively, from the Napster Light download store, where they can also listen to free 30-second samples of all the songs in the Napster catalogue.

The official launch of Napster Germany follows the completion of agreements with the country's major record labels, as well as over 150 independent labels. These agreements allow Napster to deliver more than 125,000 albums -- including 20,000 German albums -- and music from over 600,000 artists -- including 135,000 local acts -- spanning all genres, including Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Classical and Jazz. Napster Germany already has a number of business partnerships with some of the country's biggest brands, including Germany's leading consumer electronics goods retailer, MakroMart; Trekstor, the biggest MP3 player manufacturer, which is bundling its i.beat reload player with a six-month Napster To Go subscription in retail outlets across the country; and television broadcaster SAT1, with which it has an exclusive music service partnership.

"Napster is very pleased to bring the biggest brand in on-line music to the number one music market in Continental Europe," said Chris Gorog, chairman and CEO of Napster. "We believe German music fans will be very excited to see where we have taken the original genius of Napster and expanded on the ideas of unlimited music discovery and sharing."

"It is very exciting for Napster to bring the first flat rate music service to Germany as we believe this will soon be the preferred experience for digital music fans," said Thorsten Schliesche, vice-president & general manager, Napster Germany. "A flat rate for unlimited music discovery is a much greater value than 99 euro cents downloads and is quite simply a lot more fun."

Napster Germany accepts all major credit cards as well as payments through PayPal and electronic debiting systems (ELV). The Napster Pre-Paid Card is another convenient way for German consumers to purchase tracks and Napster subscriptions.

About Napster

Napster, the biggest brand in digital music, is a subscription service that enables fans to freely sample the world's largest and most diverse online collection of music and move an unlimited amount of songs to compatible portable audio players. Napster (www.napster.com) members have access to songs from the major labels and hundreds of independents and have more ways to discover, share and acquire new music and old favorites with community features like the ability to email tracks to friends and browse other members' collections. Napster also offers Napster Light, a "lighter" version of the service for those who just want to purchase songs and albums a la carte. Napster is now available in the United States, Canada, Germany and the U.K. and is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo.

Safe Harbor Statement

Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this press release, in particular matters related to the success of the Napster service in Germany, Napster's relationship with Trekstor, SAT1 and MakroMart and Napster's agreements with content providers are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties such as the company's failure to maintain relationships with strategic partners and content providers, the new and rapidly changing nature of the online music industry, dependence on the growth of the Internet and broadband technologies, and failure of the Napster service to interoperate with the hardware of Napster's customers, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information on these and other factors are contained in Napster's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC on November 2, 2005, copies of which are available at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov/. Napster assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

Copyright (C) 2005 Napster, LLC. All rights reserved. Napster and Napster Light are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Napster, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners.

Adam Howorth
European Communications Director
Tel: +44 (0) 207 1017281
adam.howorth@napster.co.uk

Source: Napster

CONTACT: Adam Howorth, European Communications Director of Napster,
+44-0-207-1017281, adam.howorth@napster.co.uk

Web site: http://www.napster.de/
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