Its a special occasion at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe SingStar® is celebrating its 1,000th downloadable track on SingStore for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3). Since its launch in December 2007, SingStar on PS3 won the hearts of SingStars as the ultimate party centerpiece for friends and family. SingStars have since downloaded 4 million extra tracks from SingStore and uploaded nearly 100,000 video performances to My SingStar Online. With more than 1,000 tracks now available in SingStore, its no surprise that more than 6,000 new SingStars per week are signing up.
SingStore is the place where SingStars go to download the tracks they want to sing and, in the course of a year, the number of songs on offer has grown to an amazing 1,000 tracks with many, many more on the way. SongPacks collections of five-song downloads arrived with the first Ultimate Queen SongPack. Since then, SongPacks have sold 57,000 copies since launching in October 2008. We now have Britney and are soon to add Billy Joel and Madness amongst other key artists. SingStars across the PAL territories have now downloaded more than 4 million tracks from SingStore thats 60,000 tracks per week! The top SingStore download is Bonnie Tylers Total Eclipse of the Heart with Europes Final Countdown and Pinks Just Like A Pill following hard on its heels.
My SingStar Online is the hub of SingStars PS3 in-game community where SingStars go to show off their best performances and check out other peoples. Since its launch, nearly 400,000 SingStars have registered with nearly 100,000 video performances uploaded to My SingStar Online. A staggering 9.3 million My SingStar Online videos have been viewed so far!
Since its launch, SingStar for PS3 has gone from strength to strength, says Dave Raynard, Executive Producer of SingStar, Sony Computer Entertainment, London Studio. My personal highlight has to be winning three Guinness World Records: Most Successful Singing Game, First Customisable Track in a Singing Game and First Music Game to Let Players Record Their Performances and Share Them
Online. And we keep getting better - if you havent joined the party yet, now is the time!
With a number of strong SongPacks on SingStore and a growing My SingStar Online in-game community: SingStar is the worlds ultimate singing game and a genuine phenomenon since its launch on PlayStation®2 in 2004. More than 16 million SingStar units have now been sold, making it Sony Computer Entertainment Europes leading social games brand, one of the worlds most famous games and an essential component of any house party.