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Kim Dotcom previews new music streaming site with his own europop album
1/20/2014 10:53:00 AM
Kim Dotcom has done it again. Two years after he rented a bunch of musicians (including Will.i.am) to promote his illegal Megaupload service, he's turned to a group of presumably more affordable artists to support his latest project, Baboom. The music streaming site launched in preview mode today, with a design that looks like a cross between Rdio and the new MySpace, and with just a single album in its library: a sort of europop medley made by Dotcom himself with contributions from Printz Board (one of Will.i.am's buddies), Mona Dotcom (Kim's wife) and some others we've never heard of.
Although this teaser album is free, Baboom will apparently let you pay to download music in addition to streaming it, and it looks like the site may support high-definition audio too (including FLAC and MP3 320Kbps). The big selling point, however, will be some kind of reward scheme that gives you free music in exchange for installing an advertising plugin into your browser -- but that's likely still a few months off. In the meantime, Dotcom's talent for self-publicity (if not singing) seems to be working: Baboom is reporting 80,000 plays in the last hour alone.
[Image credit: Thierry Ehrmann, Flickr]
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