Karaoke

Karaoke is a free downloadable title available on the Xbox Live Marketplace that grants users access to a library of over 8,000 songs maintained by The Karaoke Channel. An Xbox 360 headset, USB microphone or Lips microphone is required to sing and Kinect is also supported for pose matching and score bonuses. A levelling system encourages players to keep singing, awarding both Fans and Moola to unlock bonuses, random stage items and new venues which themselves add more score bonuses. In May of 2014 a message was displayed to users within Karaoke stating that the service would be shutting down on August 15, 2014. No reason has been publicly stated for the game’s cancellation but it was likely due to low sales of Karaoke Passes, the end of licensing with Stingray/The Karaoke Channel or a lack of interest from sponsors who Microsoft expected to pay for in-game branding.

Those who had previously downloaded Karaoke may still find it in their Xbox Purchase History and be able to add it to their download queue. The package will download to the console but upon launch it will attempt to connect to a server and eventually time out with an error message. The official Karaoke Facebook account has also since been deleted.