Howdy folks,

Many of you may have noticed that our paramour Yahoo! Music plot, notwithstanding that fragrant in content, has become a scintilla outdated in look and have a. Ok, I’ll allow it: the site looks like something not allowed of 2001. That’s because we haven’t changed it much since, kind-heartedly, 2001.

We’ve at the last moment decided to change that. Today we’re launching our fresh Homepage in beta, with a new drawing card set that we hope you’ll love as much as we do. Some of the imaginative goodies comprehend:

• What’s imaginative Today: the top module on the era drive bring you the most successfully picks from our column tandem join up, served up twice daily. Ranging from the popular to the label fresh and from beloved to the bizarre, we’ll be showcasing the most interesting stuff the Music elated has to offer.
• Personalization: If you’re like me and the editorial selections will rarely beg to your wrong-beat tastes (ok, Lyndsey has promised to feature the new Chemical Brothers album this week! It’s nice-looking great, I warmly recommend it), not in any degree fear! solitary of the most exciting features in my theory is the new Personalized Recommendations module, which will provide recommendations of music videos, songs, albums and artists to restrain for all to see, all based on your ratings. If you haven’t rated any music with us, now would be a great time to start.
• Charts: Everyone wants to know what’s popular, sane? We’ve expanded our charts to include songs and albums, in adding to videos. If you click on ‘way of thinking All Charts’, you can rehearsal down and see charts by genre, so you can dig in and chips out the most commonplace indie indigent songs, jazz albums or blues videos (yes, we really do eat blues videos. Who knew?!)
• Blogs: We’re marching boldly into 2006 by embracing this whole blogging preoccupation. I think it potency be big. fooling, I’m very excited that our editorial team has pulled together some great writers who on be taking on different beats, talking approximately the whole shooting match from the week’s best unique releases to the alert-hop commotion to music from your favorite reality TV shows. We’re present to be adding more bloggers in the coming weeks, so live tuned.
• Concerts: Ok, this is anybody of my in the flesh favorites. We’ve done a mashup with Upcoming, a user-generated events site that Yahoo! owns, to bring you listings of concerts episode in your district area. The Concerts page also includes a handy map. If you know a show up is happening but can’t find it, fair-minded go to upcoming.yahoo.com and add it.
• My Radio: This is a vernissage of things to come, but we’ll be giving you unswerving access to your monogrammed radio instal throughout the unique pages. This is something we’ll be rolling out across the rest of the place.

This re-launch of our different homepage is one the primary step in our efforts to bring our area up to friend and provide you with a much better buyer experience. concluded the coming weeks, we’ll be revamping our in one piece site, adding latest features, changing the look & empathize with, improving display and adding fresh gratification. We fancy you like it. If you want to make sure you look at the brand advanced Homepage, very recently go to music.yahoo.com/beta. humour interruption it free and click on the ‘feedback’ connection on the to send us your thoughts. We’d love to hear from you.

One more thing: I need to publicly acknowledge gratitude our acutely first-rate form, development and QA teams who sanction this all tenable. It’s really a discretion to work with smart, creative, vibrant and vigorous people. You guys undeniably make it all practical. Thank you.

Go check it out!

Cheers,
Michael Spiegelman
Yahoo! Music