Cambridge, Mass. – January 13, 2009 – Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced the online Rock Band® Music Store is now live for the Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo.
Starting today there are 50 Rock Band Wii tracks available for download in the Rock Band Music Store, including the 20 free Rock Band 2 DLC tracks and 30 additional songs for purchase already released as downloadable content for other console versions. Each purchasable track will be available for 200 Wii Points.
The 30 downloadable tracks for purchase include:
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ARTIST |
TITLE |
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30 Seconds to Mars |
The Kill |
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All-American Rejects |
Move Along |
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Avenged Sevenfold |
Afterlife |
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Black Tide |
Shockwave |
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Blink-182 |
All the Small Things |
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Blondie |
Call Me |
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Boston |
More Than a Feeling |
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Boston |
Rock & Roll Band |
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Disturbed |
Inside the Fire |
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Fall Out Boy |
This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race |
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Jimmy Buffett |
Cheeseburger in Paradise |
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Lynyrd Skynyrd |
Simple Man |
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Metallica |
And Justice For All |
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Motley Crue |
Saints of Los Angeles |
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Muse |
Hysteria |
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Nine Inch Nails |
The Perfect Drug |
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Oasis |
Wonderwall |
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Papa Roach |
Time is Running Out |
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Paramore |
Crushcrushcrush |
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Red Hot Chili Peppers |
Snow (( Hey Oh )) |
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Rush |
Working Man (vault edition) |
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Serj Tankian |
Beethoven’s C*** |
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Smashing Pumpkins |
Zero |
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Stone Temple Pilots |
Interstate Love Song |
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Stone Temple Pilots |
Sex Type Thing |
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The Offspring |
Hammerhead |
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The Police |
Message in a Bottle |
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The Who |
Baba O’Riley |
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Weezer |
Buddy Holly |
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Weezer |
El Scorcho |
The 20 free Rock Band 2 tracks include:
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ARTIST |
TITLE |
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The 88 |
Sons & Daughters |
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Authority Zero |
No Regrets |
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Between the Buried & Me |
Prequel to the Sequel |
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Cab, The |
Bounce |
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Chevelles The, |
Get It On |
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The Cocktail Slippers |
Give it to Me |
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Dealership |
Database Corrupted |
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Endeverafter |
I Wanna Be Your Man |
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Ghost Hounds |
Ashes to Fire |
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Hollywood Undead |
Young |
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Kutless |
The Feeling |
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The Len Price 3 |
If I Ain’t Got You |
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Lesley Roy |
I’m Gone I’m Going |
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Opiate for the Masses |
Burn You Down |
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Semi-Precious Weapons |
Magnetic Baby |
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Shaimus |
Like a Fool |
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thenewno2 |
Crazy Tuesday |
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Tickle Me Pink |
The Time is Wrong |
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Underoath |
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures |
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X Japan |
I.V. |
Wii fans can expect a rollout of the previously released downloadable content every week until the entire back catalogue of more than 500 songs is available. In addition, the regularly scheduled future DLC releases for other consoles will also be available for Rock Band 2 Wii owners starting in February. Weekly Rock Band downloadable content releases are already available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
Rock Band downloadable content is playable and integrated into setlists in all game modes. In order to play downloadable content for head-to-head matches or multiplayer online, all players must own the same downloadable track.
Rock Band downloadable content for Wii is available for purchase through the in-game Rock Band Music Store using Wii Points that must be purchased outside the game through the Wii™ Shop Channel. In addition to the storage space on the Wii hard drive, players can use an SD card to store additional tracks which then will stream directly to the game for seamless play. As previously announced, SanDisk will release an official 2GB Rock Band 2 SD card that will allow players to store more than 75 downloadable tracks. The official 2GB SanDisk Rock Band 2 SD card will be available this Spring. For more information please visit: www.sandisk.com.
There are more than 500 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/music). Rock Band continues to satisfy music fans’ and gamers’ voracious appetite for rock with more than 30 million paid downloads since its launch on November 20, 2007. The Rock Band Music Store allows players to preview and purchase downloadable individual music tracks and packs from the vast selection of offerings available to date without ever leaving the game as they build their own custom Rock Band library.
For more information on Rock Band2 and Harmonix Music Systems please visit www.rockband.com.
