MIAMI, Nov. 4, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fuego Entertainment (OTCBB:FUGO) today announced that it continues to acquire and release new CDs via its record labels: FEMI and Echo-Fuego. Both labels are distributed by Koch Entertainment.
Four new albums were released in September 2008 by Echo-Fuego: Eriq J'Mar (R&B), Jeff Maddox (Country), Positive K (Hip Hop), and Marcus Allen (R&B). One new album was released in September 2008 by FEMI; this album entitled Akapelleando is the latest release by 3-time Latin Grammy nominee Vocal Sampling (Latin). In the coming weeks, four additional new albums will be also released by Fuego Entertainment.
An additional 1,500 music tracks from Echo-Fuego are now available for sale in all digital retail outlets including iTunes, MySpace, Yahoo! Music, Wal-Mart Music, and others. Most of these tracks have also been cleared for ringtone downloads via AOL Mobile, Movistar, Vodafone, CBS Mobile, Sony Ericsson PlayNow, Virgin Mobile, MuchMusic, and many other points of distribution around the world.
Fuego is also in the process of uploading over 3.5 million music tracks to its Internet portals: FuegoMio.com. Revenues from the website will come from the sale of media downloads and advertising. The majority of Fuego's online media content is provided by two major distributors: The Orchard Enterprises, Inc. ("The Orchard"), Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Inc. ("IODA"). Fuego will continue to add more media content to its portals and is currently negotiating with other independent labels and distributors to be a part of FuegoMio.com.
"Digital music sales and distribution has become the primary focus of Fuego's sales strategy, our goal is to become one of the major online digital retails outlets in world," states Hugo Cancio, President of Fuego Entertainment. "Content is king and Fuego has access to a wide variety of entertainment from all over the world across all age groups, income levels, and ethnic backgrounds. Targeting a crossover into English-speaking markets, Fuego offers media and entertainment products with a Latin flair. Fuego is currently focusing on music, however, our goal is to eventually reach global proportions for content of all genres using many different brands of media product, such as feature films, documentaries, reality television shows, etc."
For more information, please visit Fuego Entertainment at http://www.fuegoentertainment.net.
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