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Samsung, Universal Launch Online Platform ADD52 For Emerging Artists

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All Def Music along with Samsung and Narrative have launched ADD52 in partnership with Universal Music. ADD52 is an online emerging artist platform that will debut one original music single and video each week by emerging, unsigned artists for fifty-two consecutive weeks. 

[Image: Steve Rifkind, Russell Simmons, Todd Pendleton and DJ Skee at launch of ADD52 at SXSW]

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