W Hotels Worldwide Presents The Sound Of Wonderlust: W Hotels Worldwide Tour An Exclusive Cd Compilation Celebrating W Hotels’ Global Growth

New York, NY | W Hotels Worldwide proudly presents The Sound of Wonderlust: W Hotels Worldwide Tour, a celebration of the W brand’s year long musical journey. Produced by SONY BMG’s Commercial Music Group, W Hotels’ groundbreaking new CD features music from award-winning and emerging artists such as Kylie Minogue, Natasha Bedingfield and Mark Ronson. Offering guests and brand loyalists contemporary style and sounds from global talents, the latest volume in W Hotels’ ultra popular CD series highlights music from the W brand’s current and upcoming destinations including, W Istanbul, W Doha, W Hong Kong and more. The Sound of Wonderlust: W Hotels Worldwide Tour is the latest addition to the W brand’s year-long musical celebration, W WonderLust Live Music Series, an exclusively curated musical journey. This year, W Hotels hosted performances by award-winning and emerging SONY BMG artists including Natasha Bedingfield at W New York–Union Square and Paddy Casey at W Los Angeles, with more performance dates and artists to be announced soon.

The first hotel brand to produce a CD that captured the vibe of its public spaces, W Hotels’ first CD titled Boite de Nuit featured the likes of Chaka Kahn, Marvin Gaye and Les Nubians. As the sixth CD compilation in W Hotels’ exclusive series, The Sound of Wonderlust: W Hotels Worldwide Tour, is packaged in the most eco-friendly CD packaging available: 35% post-consumer material and 100% recycled fibers. Designed to transport listeners and help them discover their own W Hotels’ Wonderlust beat, the playlist includes:

• Goldfrapp, “Lovely 2 C U”
• Mark Ronson, “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before/You Keep Me Hanging On (aka Stop Me)” Paul Oakenfold remix
• Donna Summer, “I’m A Fire”
• Zarema, “Yangin”
• Natasha Bedingfield, “Angel”
• Kylie Minogue, “Wow”
• Morgan Page featuring Angela McCluskey, “Tell Me Why” – Exclusive Track for W Hotels
• Wow, “Get High” remix
• Audio Bullys featuring Nancy Sinatra, “Shot You Down”
• Newton Faulkner, “Dream Catch Me”
• Four Tet, “As Serious As Your Life”
• Shirley Bassey, “You Only Live Twice” remix

W Hotels Whirlwind Weekender Package:
Jetsetters can fly to any W Hotel in the world for a musical adventure all their own thanks to the Wonderlust Whirlwind Weekend Package, presented by MasterCard Worldwide. Each package includes a copy of The Sound of Wonderlust: W Hotels Worldwide Tour; the latest CD by one of the WonderLust Live Music Series Performers; an Altec Orbit-MP3 Speaker System; a copy of Glam! An Eyewitness Account Photo Book by WonderLust Live Photographer, the legendary Mick Rock; two cool cocktails, and a Wonderful Room. The Wonderlust Whirlwind Weekend Package is available at all W Hotels Worldwide (except W Maldives) on Thursday through Sunday stays from August 21, 2008 – December 30, 2008 and must be booked using a valid MasterCard card. Rates vary by property. For more information or to book, please visit www.whotels.com/wonderlust.

The Sound of Wonderlust: W Hotels Worldwide Tour CD is available for purchase in the Munchie Boxes of W Hotels, at W Hotels The Store locations and via www.whotelsthestore.com. It retails for $15.00.