Fans of Disney’s teen musical acts, often teenagers themselves, now have yet another destination at which to spend time on the Disney Go website: Disney Music. Given that Disney’s been in the pop music business for years now, releases from their animated movie soundtracks notwithstanding, the only surprise is that the company hadn’t launched a music site this sophisticated until now.
Disney Music brings the Mouse Company’s extensive catalog all into one place, but the focus is clearly on the Disney Channel’s recent teen sensations. Currently on the main page of the site visitors are greeted with Selena Gomez’s brand new music video, and elsewhere the front page is littered with links to interviews and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of stars like The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez.
The site also has a unique interactive feature called “U Rock.” Users can upload their own music videos and vote on their favorites. “U Rock” will periodically run contests related to the music videos. Also on Disney Music is a similar karaoke feature where site visitors can sing along to their favorite Disney hits, with the lyrics prompted on the screen.
What really makes Disney Music stand out, however, is just how large and well-organized the site is. If you’ve been a fan of any music related to Disney, ever, you’re likely to find information about it on this page. In addition to links for Radio Disney and songs from the Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney, there’s an A-Z catalog of Disney music.
The catalog contains everything from animated movie soundtracks to music from Disney Channel stars (I even found CD information from Hilary Duff’s Disney era, which feels like ages ago now), to Muppet albums (now that they’re a part of the Disney stable), to random Disney Christmas CD’s.
Links from each album take users to a page where they can listen to 30-second previews of each song, and are given additional links to sites where they can purchase the album either in physical form or download its audio content.
Given how thorough the catalog is I did notice a few glaring omissions; during my quick browse through the collection I noted the absence of the soundtrack for “Snow White,” the movie that started it all. I also didn’t see the soundtrack for “The Little Mermaid,” though the music for “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin” was present.
But the Disney Music site is new, and while the absence of information on some of its most famous soundtracks is strange, maybe the full catalog just hasn’t made its way up to the site yet. The focus really does seem to be on Disney’s popular tween music, since fans of that are also the most likely visitors to the site.
Fans of any Disney music should check out the site, which hopefully as it grows and becomes more popular will continue to extend its catalog, introducing Disney’s classic music to new audiences.
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