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Lips: Number One Hits for Holiday 2009

Published May 27, 2009

Grab your friends and family and warm up those vocal cords! It's time to transform your next get-together into a memory-making musical affair with Lips™: Number One Hits. Combined with the original Lips game, Lips: Number One Hits sets the stage for the ultimate singing party with a new collection of global chart-topping songs to satisfy even the choosiest of performers. Whether your preferred stage is an amphitheatre or just your living room, everyone will love the latest from this singing game franchise exclusive to Xbox 360.

Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" is one of the new tunes in the game.

Hitting store shelves in October 2009, Lips: Number One Hits features popular tracks spanning diverse genres and generations that have graced the Number One position on major global charts. These top tunes include:

• "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay: The band's first number one U.S. and trans-Atlantic single.
• "Disturbia" by Rihanna: The artist's longest lasting hit on the U.S. Hot 100 chart.
• "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer: The artist is set to make a comeback starring in his own reality show this summer.
• "More Than Words" by Extreme: This tender acoustic ballad ironically was the metal band's most successful single.
• "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic: The most legally downloaded song in the U.S.
• "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club: The group's biggest hit and only U.S. number one back in 1984.
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye: A landmark song in pop music, it's on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Times.
• "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison: This song was inspired by Orbison's wife as she "walked down the street" to the store; Orbison finished writing the song by the time she returned.
• "Ready, Set, Go!" by Tokio Hotel: This is the German band's English version of "Übers Ende der Welt" which was a also a number one hit.
• And many more yet to be announced!

Combined with the power of the motion-sensitive LED wireless microphones, which are compatible with the top third-party music games releasing this fall, Lips: Number One Hits should let even closet singers grab a mic and strut their stuff with friends and family. Lips: Number One Hits and the original Lips game combine to create the ultimate singing party, with more songs to keep the fun rocking all night long. But for singers with an insatiable appetite for variety, both Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and the in-game Get Music Store feature a vast library of tunes that can be downloaded for both titles. New tracks of all genres and artist-specific song packs are added regularly each week, so personal catalogs can keep growing and growing.

Check out Lips on Xbox LIVE Marketplace now!