Evanescence Song "My Immortal" Becomes All Time Best Selling Sheet Music Download at Musicnotes.com

Madison, WI April 16, 2004 -- Musicnotes, Inc. announced that the Evanescence song "My Immortal," has become the company's all-time best selling sheet music download. Customers have downloaded over 7,000 copies of "My Immortal" since July of 2003. The song recently surpassed Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles," which was the previous all-time best seller for Musicnotes.

"Downloadable sheet music is still a relatively small part of the overall sheet music market, but it is an emerging market and definitely the future of the business," stated Kathleen Marsh, Musicnotes' CEO. "Despite low awareness of digital sheet music, 7,000 downloads of a single song is a very meaningful sales number even in the traditional print market. Our research tells us that digital delivery can dramatically expand the sheet music market, which will be good for consumers as well as music publishers and the songwriters they represent."

"'My Immortal' is a very moving song that is certain to become our first 10,000 unit seller," stated Tim Reiland, Musicnotes' Chairman. "Interestingly, the song actually carries a premium price of $5.50 per download because the sheet-music is synchronized to the customer's CD. We have also mail-ordered a couple of hundred copies of 'My Immortal' at the traditional $3.95 price point, but our customers love the ability to get their sheet music instantly, and they are willing to pay for value-added features."

About Musicnotes: Musicnotes, Inc. has an impressive catalog of 20,000 digital sheet music files that has been built on the strength of content agreements with Warner Bros. Publications, BMG, Peermusic, Famous Music, Zomba Music, Bug Music and several other music publishers. They also carry a complete catalog of over 260,000 mail-order items in their online catalog. The Musicnotes' multi-genre digital offering includes everything from Coldplay and Evanescence to George Gershwin and Beethoven.

Media Contacts:
Kathleen Marsh, CEO
kmarsh@musicnotes.com or 608-662-1680 ext. 272

Tim Reiland, Chairman and CFO
treiland@musicnotes.com or 414-745-4232

Bill Aicher, Creative Director
aicher@musicnotes.com or 608-662-1680 ext. 277




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