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MAKE YOUR OWN ANIMATED AKON MUSIC VIDEO ON GOANIMATE.COM

With the release of Akon’s newest album Freedom (SRC/UniversalMotown), in stores now, you will get to interact with this superstar in a whole new way! GoAnimate.com announces a partnership with international singer-songwriter, record producer, Akon. On Goanimate.com, users can create custom, movie-style animations with Saturday morning cartoon characters, politicians and celebrities, and now- Akon is added to the list!

GoAnimate.com users can create their own animations and music videos featuring hits from Akon’s newly released and highly anticipated album, Freedom. GoAnimate.com will provide all the necessary tools to create your own unique Akon animations. The fun characters, music sets, emotions, actions, and songs can be easily accessed in the Akon Channel on the website’s homepage.

The news doesn’t stop there! Akon fans will have the chance to win an autographed copy of Freedom by creating an animation using Akon’s hit songs, characters, and assets. Your video will automatically be entered in a contest, and the winning animations will be posted on Akononline.com, MySpace.com/Akon, Loud.com and UniversalMotown.com. For more contest details log on to http://www.goanimate.com/.

“We are thrilled to have found an innovative partner that gives Akon fans a creative way to interact with their favorite artist and each other,” said Ayal Kleinman, VP Marketing and New Media. “The GoAnimate software is the perfect tool to enable all music fans to express themselves on the web without extensive internet knowledge and skills.”

“We are very pleased to announce this partnership with music superstar Akon,” says Stone Newman, Senior VP of Licensing and Business Development for GoAnimate.com. This partnership marks our first music license and allows us to reach a completely different fan base. “GoAnimate.com gives Akon fans the chance to actively interact with one another.”
About GoAnimate, Inc.
GoAnimate was created by a bunch of guys who love animation and want to enable everyone with the ability to animate! Our world is made up of great stories and GoAnimate provides an outlet for everyone and anyone to share their sentiments, sagas and satires with the universe. Headquartered in New York, GoAnimate has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hong Kong. The creators of GoAnimate have a wide range of expertise spanning from animation and programming to marketing and web solutions.
About Akon
In 2007, Akon became the first artist in music history to hold simultaneous No.1 and No. 2 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart twice. Akon also won the 2007 American Music Award for Best Male Soul/R&B Artist and was honored three times at the World Music Awards. He has achieved gold and platinum certifications in twenty-three countries with the album KONVICTED and its singles — the No. 1 hits “Don’t Matter,” and Grammy nominee “I Wanna Love You;” along with the No. 2 Grammy-nominated “Smack That” featuring Eminem. Akon’s first album was the two-million-selling SRC/Universal Motown 2004 release TROUBLE, which included the worldwide smashes “Locked Up” and “Lonely.”

About SRC Records
SRC Records (Street Records Corporation), founded in 2002, is a record label created by former Loud Records CEO Steve Rifkind, and is distributed by the Universal Motown Records Group. The label broke four artists in its first three years with the multi-platinum David Banner, Terror Squad, Remy Ma, and Akon. SRC’s first release, David Banner’s “Mississippi: The Album”, spawned the top 10 hit “Like a Pimp,” which went on to Gold status worldwide. SRC also showed immediate success in 2002, with Terror Squad’s gold selling album “True Story,” which featured the number one single “Lean Back.” Akon’s debut album “Trouble,” sold four million copies world-wide, paired by the top single “Lonely.” His sophomore album “Konvicted,” had instant success when it debuted on November 14, 2006, which spawned the top singles “I Wanna Love,” and “Smack That.” Within weeks after the release, the album reached double platinum status worldwide, and received 2 Grammy nominations for “Smack That.” SRC Records albums released in 2008 include David Banner The Greatest Story Ever Told, Shontelle’s Shontelligence, and Akon’s Freedom. New artist releases slated for 2009 include the web phenomenon Asher Roth, Tami Chynn, Melanie Fiona, O’neal McKnight, and Corte.

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AKON TO PERFORM MYSPACE MUSIC RELEASE SHOW AT CHINA CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008

AKON TO PERFORM MYSPACE MUSIC RELEASE SHOW AT CHINA CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008

NEW ALBUM “FREEDOM” IN STORES, ONLINE, AND ON SLOTMUSIC CARDS AND PLAYERS ON DECEMBER 2nd VIA UPFRONT/SRC/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN RECORDS

MySpace Music is proud to announce that Akon will be performing a free show for his MySpace friends at China Club in New York City on Monday, December 1, 2008 – a show being powered by AT&T. Doors for the 21+ Release show will be at 8 p.m., and admittance will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis with a printout of each person’s profile displaying Akon in their top eight.

An internationally recognized, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Akon is one of the most influential voices in music today. In addition to having two multi-platinum albums, 21 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, Gold or Platinum status in over 23 countries, and over 145 guest appearances with artists such as Michael Jackson and Gwen Stefani to his credit, Akon is the only artist to ever accomplish the feat of holding both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice.

In addition to his accolades, on November 19, 2008 Akon announced that his third album, “Freedom,” will be available on “slotMusic™, a new form of DRM-free MP3 music on a microSD card beginning Tuesday, December 2nd – the same date his album will be released digitally and on CD. The new slotMusic card will give fans a chance to enjoy Akon’s album in a variety of ways and on a host of devices – from their microSD-enabled mobile phones to their computers and MP3 players. Going beyond the original thirteen songs that are on the CD version of the album, the slotMusic “Freedom” card will carry a mini-documentary video on Akon’s life and influences, the new video for “Right Now (Na Na Na),” and exclusive hi-res images and songs including fellow SRC artist Tami Chynn’s debut single “Frozen” featuring Akon.

Please visit Akon’s MySpace page to preview his new album “Freedom” before it hits stores 12/2 starting this Friday 11/28:
http://www.myspace.com/akon