If the idea of buying a Sony Ericsson phone preloaded with songs from Madonna’s latest album Hard Candy sounds appealing to you, then you’d be glad to know that Sony Ericsson and Warner Music have sealed a deal that will soon make this a reality. Fortunately for some SE fans who are not as into Madonna’s kind of music, the arrangement would only be good for selected SE handsets but nonetheless these will be released in some 27 countries worldwide.

Actually, Sony Ericsson has began distributing some of the songs from Hard Candy this past May when it bundled a “4 minutes” remix of Madonna’s song with some of its W890 units in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.

In yet another great example of an artist using the power of the web and technology, Madonna has chosen to offer seven of the eleven tracks from her upcoming album Hard Candy early. While I wish this offer was available for anyone, or even a larger audience, she has decided to offer the access to more »