http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/20/rock-band-surpasses-6-million-song-downloads/

Rock Band surpasses 6 million song downloads

8 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Mar 20th 2008 9:38AM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm, Business

Rock Band keeps rocking the downloadable content market as Harmonix announced today the game has sold over 6 million songs in just over three months. The title has set the bar for DLC with fresh weekly content and the last update we had about sales numbers stated that Rock Band had sold 2.5 million pieces of DLC around mid-January. We've placed a master list of all the songs available on Rock Band after the break.

Although we'll probably never get a straight answer, it would be nice to find out how much of an impact the new Rock Band music store is expected to make on sales. Having all that DLC available from directly inside the game, rather than making potential customers wander through the virtual aisles of the Xbox Marketplace or PlayStation Store, should make some noticeable difference.

Rock Band patch also fixing incidental issues

2 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Mar 20th 2008 9:35AM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm

The Rock Band music store won't be the only thing added by the forthcoming patch, with several fixes to the game included as well. Harmonix states that the patch fixes "some of the common issues" it's heard about on Rockband.com.

• Fan cap revision -- Increase on number of fans possible before cap. Easy players can travel across Atlantic, Medium players have a wider range of venues and Hard players on the Xbox 360 can unlock "One Million Fans" achievement.
• Increased diversity in Band World Tour song selection.
  
• Improved phoneme recognition -- Improved detection and scoring for phoneme recognition. Examples are songs like Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld and Blitzkrieg Bop.
• Microphone latency on PS3 improved.
• Xbox 360 band logos now visible through Xbox LIVE -- Parental controls prevented band logos from being visible over Xbox LIVE.
• Faster loading of DLC -- Songs are cached for a one time wait.

The company admits that this does not fix every issue out there and states Harmonix is "listening to all of your requests, and actively want to get these features onto the Rock Band platform in the future."

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/20/rock-band-music-store-rockin-consoles-this-week/

Rock Band music store rockin' consoles this week

4 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Mar 20th 2008 9:30AM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Rhythm

At some point this week Harmonix will finally launch the Rock Band music store, a fully integrated shop allowing players to preview and purchase tracks without ever leaving the comfy confines of the game. Songs in the store will provide a difficulty metric for each instrument and the DLC can be organized by artist, genre, difficulty and year of release.

Harmonix tells us that this is the "only patch planned" at this time, so players looking to streamline their multiplayer registration experience or do Band World Tour online are gonna have to sit tight. Also, be sure to continue checking with us every Friday for the latest Rock Band DLC announcements with Rock Band Weekly.

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This is one of my favorite games and has by far surpassed Guitar Hero in my opinion so these updates are welcome.  Remember Harmonix made Guitar hero (technically they stole the idea from guitar freaks made by konami) and they continue to kick ass with Rock Band. Now just hurry up and give me smells like teen spirit from Nirvana!!!

Awesome news :) My friends usually buy up anything that shows up for rock band, and now they have a pretty bitchen song selection center so to say xD And yes I definitely agree this game beats the shit out of guitar hero :D.

so they are only releasing the update for 360???

I am pretty sure the PS3 will also get it.  The tittle does say consoles and the fixes include some stuff for the PS3.  Obviously the 360 version is the better selling but Harmonix wouldn't alienate the PS3 owners.

I'm still pouting over the announcement that Euros get Blur's "Beetlebum" while we Americans do not.

Damn it. We should bomb you bastards.

Cool ... the update is pretty impressive if you ask me :)

I see Limelight by Rush on RB update.
I heard there was Tom Sawyer and Working Man too.
Any others by Rush?