Slacker for BlackBerry hits 1 million downloads; free Slacker Radio Plus giveaway!
There are a few big players out there when it comes to customized Internet radio but lately, Slacker seems to be shining brighter than the rest. This past week, the company announced two major milestones: First, Slacker now has well over 2 million songs in its library. For comparison sake that’s about four times the size of Pandora’s library. Beyond that, in less than four months since the app was released, Slacker’s BlackBerry offering has already hit the 1 million download mark. Wow. It took just over 16 weeks to reach a million downloads and support for station caching and stereo Bluetooth no doubt helped it get there as quickly as it did. So how is Slacker celebrating the occasion? By hooking a few BGR readers up, that’s how. Hit the jump for your chance to win a free 1-year Slacker Radio Plus subscription courtesy of Slacker and your pals here at BGR.
Now as a general rule, BGR readers are a hard working bunch. We’re pretty sure however, that there are a few “slackers” in our audience and thanks to Slacker Radio, we’ve got a giveaway lined up just for you. The Slacker app for BlackBerry is completely free of course, as is the standard Slacker Radio service. Slacker also offers a premium service however — Slacker Radio Plus — that provides several benefits over the standard option. Radio Plus features include unlimited song skips, unlimited song requests, complete lyrics, no audio or banner ads and access to the Slacker Mini Player (Windows XP SP2 or greater required). As affordable as the service is at $3.99 per month, a true slacker might have a little trouble coming up with the dough. As such, we’re giving away a few free 1-year Slacker Radio Plus subscriptions to slackers in need. Here’s the deal:
- Leave a comment below telling us why you’re a true slacker, thus needing a helping hand in order to upgrade your Slacker Radio service
- One comment per person, please
- You must currently have a registered Slacker account in order to enter (Don’t have one? Go sign up now!)
- We’ll run the giveaway this weekend only, through tomorrow at 11:59PM ET
- The contest is only open to residents of the USA — sorry!
On Monday, we’ll read through everyone’s entries and choose the three slackingest slackers to win one free 1-year Slacker Radio Plus subscription each. Those subscriptions will no doubt help you attain new levels of slackerdom amateur slackers couldn’t even dream of. As for the rest of you hard working people, hit Slacker.com if you haven’t already checked out the service and download the BlackBerry app directly to your handset via BlackBerry App World.
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I have fell in LOVE with Slacker! With the caching, it does not come close to ANY other mobile radio service. Also they have customized stations, so if you in the mood for Top 40, or a certin genere, you can choose that as well! I would love the Radio Plus serivice for the unlimited skips and no commericals! So BGR, you should hook a brother up!
Without Slacker, how else will I drown out the annoying idiots at work?
I am a single mom of three boys and slacker makes my life easier. It doesn’t matter is I’m at the doctors of the grocery store, I turn on slacker and the are perfectly content the whole trip!! I am a slacker for life!!
Hey I just downloaded slacker and everytime I try and listen to the station it want play.. I mean it says its buffering but sit there and wait for a long time and nothin happens? I have the blackberry curve just so u know.. Is there anyway to fix this?
I love slacker radio it is a pleasure to find most of my requests if not all. latin, French, etc great the only problem is that it stops in the middle of a song, switch I have to start over. is it because i have the free copy. I would like to have slacker Plus
love this service!
Why carry around an MP3 player and a BlackBerry? With slacker I get my music without having to carry a myriad of elctronics with me on my daily walk! Okay, my walks are actually me sitting on the couch after work every day!
I love slacker and I vote.
I’m judy. All I can say it would be grant to thave slacker plus I do have the standard although limited I do enjoy it immensely. I get my specific musics, stations & info abt my favorite artists. It’s do much fun to have music and stations I like on the go. I hope in the future I can get the slacker plus.
Thank you for the chance. Keep up the good work.
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