Inside Nokia Music

…According to research from Nokia Music into the listening habits of music fans in 15 countries between December 2008 and January 2010.

TOP 10 GLOBALLY DOWNLOADED MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS

1. Twilight (Original motion picture soundtrack: International Version)

2. AVATAR

3. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

4. Mamma Mia!

5. The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Mexican version)**

6. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

7. Alvin And The Chipmunks 2

8. Slumdog Millionaire

9. The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Original motion picture soundtrack)

10. Watchmen

Notice how it occurred 3 times on the list?… but sadly it doesn’t qualify for the “Best Original Score” category according to the rules of the 82nd annual Academy Awards…

Leave a comment telling us your favourite film scores or soundtracks and we’ll give 1 lucky reader 50 tracks from the Nokia Music Store.  Terms and Conditions

From James Horner’s mysterious AVATAR score to the thrilling melodies of Sherlock Holmes or the eclectic mix of Nine, check out Nokia’s movie soundtrack selection

If you’re a fan of the music behind the latest movie releases Nokia Comes With Music is the place to download all the music you’ve ever wanted, for free, and to keep forever.

Competition is now closed!

It’s that time of year again, whether you’re single or firmly in the grip of coupledom there’s no way to avoid hearts and flowers season. Valentines is upon us.

Whether this makes your heart sing or sink – we’d like to help make your day better by offering you the chance to win 2 pairs of the best noise cancelling headphones that money can buy. Who you give the other pair to is up to you (It’s worth noting the noise cancelling feature may come in handy for those of you who have been married a while)

The Nokia Bluetooth Stereo headset BH-905 with active noise cancellation are packed chock full of awesome features (I love being able to control Nokia Ovi Player across the room) compatible with pretty much everything and retail at £249.00 a pair. (check ‘em out here http://www.nokia.com/microsites/bh-905 )

All you have to do to enter is leave us a comment below featuring your all time favourite love lyrics. From Smokey Robinson to Alice Cooper and everything in between. Good luck!

Please see Terms and Conditions for eligibility.

Winner announcement

We had songs all the way from Patrick Swayze to Metallica and even submissions as unique as an untranslated Hungarian love song…and we loved them all. But sadly there can be only one winner for both pairs of the lovely Nokia BH-905 Headphones, and that winner by a random draw is…

Aaron Fuller

Congratulations!

Here’s his submission

Mine have to be the lyrics to the song “100%” by Beverley Knight. You can find the lyrics to the whole song here: http://www.beverleyknight.com/lyrics/beverley-knight-100.html

But my favourite particular bits are:

Never thought I’d see the day
When somebody got inside and caught my heart this way
Didn’t fit in with my masterplan
And I can’t believe that this is where I am
Oh maybe I was living life just fine
Friends and family would always occupy my time
And suddenly out of the blue….
There was You.

No one in this world can take the place of you
And that’s 100% you got me
100% you got me
Oh baby, baby,
I was made to fill that empty space in you
And that’s 100% you got me
100 you got me

Others in my past have tried for commitment
But they always found themselves denied
Love and I were incompatible
But now what you’ve done to me is magical
Oh baby I was so afraid of hurt
I did everything to put myself on full alert
But you broke those barriers of pain
I breathe again.

Which is basically most of the song, but all of the lyrics are lovely and I’d really recommend it. 

So pretty in pink

We’re all über-excited here at Inside Nokia Music about being the first to announce an addition to the Nokia Xseries family with the arrival of the new X6 / 16GB model, the device we’ve come to lovingly refer to as the little brother to the X6 / 32GB model.  

In fact, we’re so excited about the release of the X6 / 16 ‘Gig’ model that we’re giving away pairs of tickets to 16 gigs (see what we did there?) throughout the UK & North America

Though smaller in storage capacity it may be, the new X6 / 16GB certainly doesn’t fall short on functionality and social networking capabilities. At a fraction of the cost of big bro (it’ll retail at around EUR 299 without taxes & subsidies), the Nokia X6 / 16GB offers a full-blown entertainment experience

• Enjoy the over 9 millions tracks in the Nokia Music Store direct to the device or via the Nokia Ovi Player PC client
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• Playlist DJ: create playlists of your music on the phone – based on moods or based on a preselected song
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• Manage your entertainment & social life directly from the homescreen using Contacts bar featuring thumbnail images for up to 20 close friends and Media bar and direct access to Facebook
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• Challenge yourself and friends on three pre-installed games – Spore from EA, DJ Mix Tour and Asphalt 4 from Gameloft
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• Download numerous premium games and applications through the Ovi Store in over 180 countries worldwide & over 3000 games & apps available today, and store them along with videos, photos and music on the 16GB of onboard storage.

You can also feast your eyes on the new colour range, including white/pink, white/yellow & black/black (maybe one for the Emo kids).

You can also get more info on the X6 / 16GB here:

http://www.nokia.com/x6

http://www.nokia.com/press

We’re announcing the UK gig tickets we have available today, & then North America tomorrow.  So if you’re based in the UK, check out the list below and leave us a comment telling us which gig you’d like to attend and why you think you’re the most deserving.  We’ll pick who we think wants it the most and, Bob’s your uncle, a pair of tickets.  There are some basic T&Cs, so read these first! UK & US

Update!

As we’re still waiting on most of the tickets to arrive, We’ve decided to announce winners as and when they do. Apologies for any inconvenience, but this is due to the fact that it has come to our attention that some of the participants have intentions of intercontinental-travel to make it to their chosen gig… should they win. This is a precautionary measure we’ve put in place just in case the tickets arrive with minimal days to spare. Sincerest apologies.

Here are the listings

UK Gigs

Noisettes – Manchester Academy  2nd March 2010

50 Cent – LG Arena, Birmingham  19th March 2010

LCD Soundsystem – O2 Academy Brixton, London  23rd April 2010

Deadmau5 – Liverpool Su Mountford Hall  6th May 2010

Rihanna – SECC Glasgow  20th May 2010

Snow Patrol – Ward Park, Northern Ireland  5th June 2010

Green Day – Wembley Stadium, London  19th June 2010

P!nk – RDS Arena Dublin  19th June 2010

North American Gigs

US

Muse - Madison Square Gardens New York, NY  5th March 2010

Jay-Z – United Centre Chicago, IL  18th March 2010

Alicia Keys - Agganis Arena Boston, MA  22nd March 2010

Air - The Fox Theatre Oakland, CA   26th March 2010

Black Eyed Peas - Staples Center  Los Angeles, CA   29th March 2010

U2 - New Meadowlands Stadium East Rutherford, NJ  19th July 2010

Canada

Billy Talent + special guests Alexisonfire & Against Me - Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON  28th March 2010

Hot Chip - Kool Haus Toronto, ON 20th April 2010

Leave a comment at the end of this post telling us why you love Rihanna and we’ll choose 5 of the best at 1pm GMT tomorrow and send the winners a pin code to download the Nokia Music Exclusive edition of Rihanna Rated R featuring 2 Bonus Tracks - Russian Roulette (Donni Hotwheel Remix) + Hole In My Head.

Important Things To Note

• Competition is only open to Australia, Singapore and the United Kindgdom as we’ve only got pin codes for these Countries at present (sorry, we promise to get these codes for all the Nokia Music supported countries for future prize draws).
• You’ll need to download the Nokia Ovi Player and register to redeem tracks.
• Nokia Music is currently only PC compatible, here are the system requirements

Application requirements:

* Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP (32-bit) with SP2 (Mac, Linux and Windows versions before XP with SP2 not supported)
* Processor: 1.5 GHz (recommended: 2.5 GHz, or 1.5 GHz dual core)
* Memory: 512 MB (recommended: 2 GB)
* Free disk space: 500 MB (recommended: 40 GB)
* Graphics: 32 MB integrated (recommended: 128 MB dedicated)
* Screen resolution: 1024×768 pixels
* Audio: Sound card and required drivers, connected speakers or headphones
* Internet: connection for buying and streaming music (recommended: broadband connection)
* Additional recommended hardware: CD-RW drive for burning CDs

As part of our ticket give-away for the Rihanna Rated R album launch at Brixton Academy we hosted a number of challenges on Twitter, one of which required ticket hopefuls to recreate the #Rihannalive hash tag physically and send us a twitpic of their creation.

Here are a few of the contributions. Most, if not all, we rewarded with a pair of tickets for their outstanding effort.

stellaririfan

SpartyUNFTW

elliotanthony

riribreezy

riribreezy

SissyDiva

Janessa_x

SarahALSmith

xLukie_Bx

Only 4 days to go till Rihanna’s Rated R album launch party in London and we’re all super-psyched about hearing some of the new songs performed live for the first time as well as some great Ri-Ri classics, personally I’m holding out for a little Unfaithful.

Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter for a daily challenge at 2pm from now until Saturday for a chance to win tickets to this historic and highly sought after event. If you’re not lucky enough to snag a pair of tickets, fear not as you’ll still be able to catch the online live stream at nokia.com/rihanna but be sure to register soon.

Comes With Music

Today is a good day, today is the day we launch our Nokia Comes With Riddles competition and we’re excited to announce our partnership with Rock Sound Magazine, London Elektricity and Family Music in helping us achieve it.

Be the first to solve a music riddle and @reply your answer, and win a brilliant Nokia 5800 Xpress Music phone with a ‘Comes With Music Subscription’.

Think you got the stuff?… Then find out how to participate here

If you’re down here at Nokia World ‘09 today you could be in for a spot of luck and win this totally jealousing guitar signed by the Foo Fighters.