Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert and more coming n July 21.
What's more amazing is that the number does not include the amount of money made from the 40 million paid song downloads.
Warner Music continues to be dissatisfied with the royalties from music in Rock Band. In fact, since Warner Music's boss spoke up last August, no new licensing deals have been made with MTV Games.
The two main partners on the Rock Band franchise have donated cash along with hundreds of Rock Band bundles to sick children.
While Rock Band 2 may not have reached sales that Viacom was hoping for, the whole Media Networks division was one of the conglomerate's few bright spots.
Apparently the 5,000 mark is NOT a goal for 2009. Harmonix does hope to get there in the "coming years" though.
5,000! MTV apparently will be adding thousands more songs to the Rock Band platform this year. We suggest you start sending in your requests to Harmonix now.
How would you like to be able to transfer your Rock Band music to your PC or MP3 player? It just might happen in the future as Harmonix seems interested in selling recorded music.
You'll get plenty of music to download this year, but don't expect a new Rock Band. Harmonix's Alex Rigopulos also called the addition of a keyboard a "maybe."
Here's hoping the songs from the early rock legend include Only the Lonely, Pretty Woman, and You Got It.
