Meet the Zune Marketplace Team!

If you want to know more about the Zune Marketplace’s “behind de the scene”, this article from the Seattle PI may be for you. They have done an interview with the small team that take care of the 2.5 million songs available in the Zune marketplace.

What is their job? Common editorial duties at online music services include assembling playlists, writing accompanying articles or reviews, and choosing which songs and albums to highlight.

The backgrounds of the Zune Marketplace’s members are all in music. The leader of the Zune Marketplace is Kyle Hopkins;  also known as DJ "Kid Hops" on KEXP-FM.

Other Members of the team include Andy Kessler, who was the guitarist for The Gits, the legendary Seattle punk rock band. Zune Marketplace writer Paul Pearson has been a DJ, independent record-store marketer and a repeat winner of the daunting Rhino Music Aptitude Test trivia challenge.
Emily Griffin, a Zune Marketplace music programmer, has worked as a radio producer and DJ, a music-magazine marketing director, and run her own company involved in music supervision and licensing for television and film.

Omid Fatemi, another Zune Marketplace music programmer and the team's self-described "hip-hop dude," has written for a variety of music publications and worked on projects including the well-regarded "Puma 5x12" box set designed to promote emerging artists.