I’m a bit competitive I admit.  When the folks in charge at MyFreeMusicFriday.com told me that Amy Grant was their most downloaded artist ever, well, I kinda said I wanted to see if we could top that…ok, I said we would top that.  And by “we” I meant you and me, our big mouths and our collective technological prowess.

It’s on.  In this corner, industry veteran and superstar with zillions of names in a database being zinged emails by a manager or an intern or children in a factory in Malaysia…you don’t know.  And in this corner, a guy with a blog and a Myspace page…and a Multiply page…and a Facebook page…and a Tagworld page…and, well, you get the point.  I’m seriously wondering how close Web 2.0 sites like these and the word-spreading loyal daily visitors to them can get to Amy Grant’s record setting performance at MyFreeMusicFriday.com. 

It’s an experiment.  Wanna play?  Just alert your myspace friends about tomorrow’s free music giveaway and ask them to do the same.  Post about it on your blog.  Send an e-mail or two to the music lovers you know.  If you’re on the radio, please tell your listeners MyFreeMuscFriday.com is the place to get new music for free, no strings attached – and you can e-mail me for a copy of “Miss Texas” to play on-air if you’d like to let your audience hear what they can download for nothing tomorrow.

Can word of mouth and Web 2.0 even come close to competing with Amy Freakin’ Grant’s massive popularity and fanmail list?

The suspense is thick isn’t it folks?