-Caveat Lector- from: http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/afp/article.html?s=asi a/headlines/001129/entertainment/afp/Madonna_s_live_gig_breaks_audience_record _with_webcast.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/afp/article.html ?s=asia/headlines/001129/entertainment/afp/Madonna_s_live_gig_breaks_audience_ record_with_webcast.html">Madonna's live gig breaks audience record with …</A> ----- Yahoo! Asia - News Entertainment Wednesday, November 29 8:35 PM SGT Madonna's live gig breaks audience record with webcast LONDON, Nov 29 (AFP) - An Internet transmission of pop star Madonna's live show here smashed the record for webcast audiences with nine million people logging on to see it, organisers claimed on Wednesday. That trumped the previous record of three million, for a webcast of a concert given by former Beatle Paul McCartney last year. MSN, the Internet subsidiary of Bill Gates' Microsoft, transmitted the concert, which Madonna put on for 3,000 fans at the Brixton Academy venue in south London on Tuesday night. They installed 21 cameras inside the venue to relay her half-hour performance live to two websites. However, reports of technical problems took some of the shine off what had been billed as the "biggest Internet event ever." "The sound, when you could get it, was fine, but within seconds, gremlins would rear their heads and ruin it all," complained a reviewer in the Daily Express newspaper. "The screen would go blank, you would walk away and then all of a sudden, there she would be, singing her heart out again." According to the Independent newspaper, many fans were initially unable to access the webcast because Microsoft's Internet server was overloaded by the huge demand. Once logged on, the software needed to view the webcast was cumbersome and took an age to download, said the newspaper. "Once upon a time you just turned on the television to watch a concert," it said. "Now you have to be a software engineer able to understand digital rights management." Microsoft is reputed to have spent 30 million pounds (42 million dollars, 50 million euros) promoting the concert. Madonna, meanwhile, is likely to have made a killing from the merchandise advertised over the Internet. Committed fans could pick up rhinestone-studded tank tops decorated with the logo from "Music", her current album, for 87 pounds and cigarette cases for 37 pounds. Also on sale are yellow baby outfits for 10 pounds, presumably a concession to the fact that the 42-year-old singer recently gave birth to her second child, Rocco. As to the concert itself, most of the reviewers who managed to get hold of the sought-after tickets were suitably awestruck, though one or two were put out by the brevity of her performance. Madonna performed a total of six songs, mostly releases from the "Music" album, and threw in a nostalgic rendition of her 1980s hit song "Holiday". The gig was reported to be a "taster" for a world tour beginning next year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Home | Asia | World | Business | Technology | Sport | Health | Entertainment | Newspapers Questions or Comments Copyright © 2000 AFP. All rights reserved. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. Copyright © 1994-2000 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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