Over 1,000 songs now available for the Rock Band Platform

With only four releases on home consoles (Rock Band, Rock Band 2,  LEGO Rock Band, and The Beatles: Rock Band), the people over at Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that over one thousand songs are available in Rock Band.  The amazing speed at which they amassed this bounty of tracks is no doubt due mainly to the avid support given to downloadable content for this franchise.  I myself have Rock Band 2 with Rock Band 1 imported and tons of DLC tracks.  As I write this I am about to download the latest Foo Fighters Pack.  For more information, read on:

Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced that Rock Band now has more than 1,000 songs available for consumers to play within the Rock Band Music platforms for the Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation^® 3 computer entertainment system and Wii^™. Featuring the music of more than 390 bands, the Rock Band platform is, without question, the industry leader in providing the best selection of interactive musical content, songs and artists.

“When we launched Rock Band two years ago, we made a promise to create a music gaming experience that delivered on a weekly basis more songs and artists than ever imagined,” said Alex Rigopulos, co-founder and CEO of Harmonix Music Systems. “We’re extremely proud to pass this remarkable milestone of over 1,000 songs in Rock Band and will continue to innovate and bring more of the best music to Rock Band players all over the world.”

“The library of great songs available to players on the Rock Band platform is vast and continues to grow,” said Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President of Electronic Games and Music at MTV Networks Music Group. “This milestone reflects a tremendous amount of hard work from the world-class teams at Harmonix, MTV Games and at our artist, management, label and publishing partners.”

Rock Band delivers content in a variety of unique ways. Fans can access content included on the disc of Rock Band 2 and export other discs into their music library including Rock Band, LEGO^® Rock Band, and a variety of track packs, which employ the disc export technology that Harmonix pioneered. Additionally, players can select from weekly downloadable content, now in its 105^th consecutive week, all created by the dedicated Harmonix audio and art teams.

To date, Rock Band fans have downloaded more than 60 million songs from the Rock Band Music Store, and coming soon, Harmonix and MTV Games will be delivering new content via the Rock Band Network, a new suite of tools that allow bands and labels of all shapes and sizes to author their songs into downloadable, playable Rock Band tracks available for sale. With more than 1,000 tracks available to date in the standard Rock Band platform, the Rock Band Network Music Store will exponentially increase the number of songs available, further securing MTV Games and Harmonix’s position as the leading provider of downloadable content for music-based video games.

For a complete list of all 1,000 songs, please visit www.rockband.com/music or see the attached documents, which outline all songs to date, plus some fun Rock Band platform song stats.

For more information on Rock Band, please visit www.rockband.com.

The funny thing is there are still many artists and tracks that fans are asking for.  I personally want some 311, more Radiohead, more Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, more James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and many more.  With the promise to continue providing us fans with more tracks without slowing down, there may be hope just yet.  I have not even mentioned my wish tracks for The Beatles: Rock Band.  Where is my “Eleanor Rigby”?