"It’s a special occasion at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe – SingStar® is celebrating its 1,000th downloadable track on SingStore™ for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™). Since its launch in December 2007, SingStar on PS3 won the hearts of SingStars as the ultimate party centerpiece for friends and family. SingStars have since downloaded 4 million extra tracks from SingStore and uploaded nearly 100,000 video performances to My SingStar Online. With more than 1,000 tracks now available in SingStore, it’s no surprise that more than 6,000 new SingStars per week are signing up.

SingStore is the place where SingStars go to download the tracks they want to sing – and, in the course of a year, the number of songs on offer has grown to an amazing 1,000 tracks with many, many more on the way. SongPacks – collections of five-song downloads – arrived with the first Ultimate Queen SongPack. Since then, SongPacks have sold 57,000 copies since launching in October 2008. We now have Britney and are soon to add Billy Joel and Madness amongst other key artists. SingStars across the PAL territories have now downloaded more than 4 million tracks from SingStore – that’s 60,000 tracks per week! The top SingStore download is Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart – with Europe’s Final Countdown and Pink’s Just Like A Pill following hard on its heels.

My SingStar Online is the hub of SingStars PS3 in-game community where SingStars go to show off their best performances and check out other people’s. Since its launch, nearly 400,000 SingStars have registered with nearly 100,000 video performances uploaded to My SingStar Online. A staggering 9.3 million My SingStar Online videos have been viewed so far!

“Since its launch, SingStar for PS3 has gone from strength to strength,” says Dave Raynard, Executive Producer of SingStar, Sony Computer Entertainment, London Studio. “My personal highlight has to be winning three Guinness World Records: Most Successful Singing Game, First Customisable Track in a Singing Game and First Music Game to Let Players Record Their Performances and Share Them
Online. And we keep getting better - if you haven’t joined the party yet, now is the time!”

With a number of strong SongPacks on SingStore and a growing My SingStar Online in-game community: SingStar is the worlds ultimate singing game and a genuine phenomenon since its launch on PlayStation®2 in 2004. More than 16 million SingStar units have now been sold, making it Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s leading social games brand, one of the world’s most famous games – and an essential component of any house party."

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That's right straight from GAF! Never knew the franchise was such a monster until not long ago.

Congratulations SingStar. Not bad at all for a franchise that is hardly noticed in the US. I hope once the PS3 is cheaper this series gets much more advertising to help eliminate the idea that it is shovelware which is what I suspected until reading some good reviews.

To Sony- I want more falsetto R&B singing males on SingStore pretty please.

Hmm, I wasn't expecting such good download numbers. Those are pretty good.

singstar queen which releases tommorow should do fairly well in north america.

@ skip )

if Queen is more to the american taste, then i hope a bullshit review like the IGN US review for Singstar Abba won't happen again: http://uk.ps2.ign.com/articles/933/933743p1.html

the reviewer gave 5.5 because he only knew 3 of the songs and because he thought making a version for one of the most popular and best selling music acts ever was a bad idea lol

SingStar Queen will be huge.

Why can't I download all my discs to the Playstation HDD? It would make it so much more likely for me to play if I only had to put in one disc to get my entire library as opposed to continually swapping discs. Is this being worked on?

I never heard of it.

Oh well music/singing games is something which i probably will never understand :D

Very cool.