{"id":2437,"date":"2008-12-03T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/12\/u2s-christmas-exclusive-now-av.html"},"modified":"2008-12-03T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T11:35:48","slug":"u2s-christmas-exclusive-now-av","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/12\/u2s-christmas-exclusive-now-av.html","title":{"rendered":"U2&#8217;s Christmas Exclusive Now Available at (Red) Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"uspicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/uspicforic.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Once again artists are taking their message to the web to reach their fans first. Those socially conscious rockers U2 have released a new Christmas tune, &#8220;I Believe in Father Christmas&#8221; over at (Red) Wire, along with several other top artists.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/red.msn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Red) Wire debuted<\/a> its digital download service  Monday for World AIDs Day to bring attention to the humanitarian aspect of their service. Part of the monthly subscriber fee goes to the Global Fund to help those suffering in Africa.<br \/>\nOther artists such as Jay Z, Sheryl Crow and Coldplay will also premiere fresh content on the site, which has business ties to MSN. This is just the latest example of how charity has become a hot marketing trend, so all indicators are that (Red) Wire will be a hit.  Who can argue with listening to music and feeling good for donating a few bucks to a good cause?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/bono\/283215\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/bono\/283215\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Bono at LocateTV.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again artists are taking their message to the web to reach their fans first. Those socially conscious rockers U2 have released a new Christmas tune, &#8220;I Believe in Father Christmas&#8221; over at (Red) Wire, along with several other top artists. (Red) Wire debuted its digital download service Monday for World AIDs Day to bring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>U2&#039;s Christmas Exclusive Now Available at (Red) Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/12\/u2s-christmas-exclusive-now-av.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U2&#039;s Christmas Exclusive Now Available at (Red) Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Once again artists are taking their message to the web to reach their fans first. 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