Michael Brennan is about to get the Barenaked treatment.

Barenaked Ladies, that is.

Barenaked Ladies

Brennan, a 48-year-old visual artist from Moorsetown, New Jersey, nabbed the 100 millionth download from indie-centric digital music subscription service eMusic this week, and Canadian pop group Barenaked Ladies plan to write and record a song about Brennan to mark the occasion.

eMusic used the event to tout its continued growth despite its lack of any music from the four major record labels. The service sells music only in the MP3 format, which means that it comes without the usage restrictions that accompany songs downloaded from the likes of iTunes, Napster, and Rhapsody.

"The song Michael downloaded, Mississippi Fred McDowell's 'Diamond Ring,' is representative of the kind of uncompromising, independent-minded music that fans can discover on eMusic," eMusic CEO David Pakman said in a statement. "eMusic subscribers don't need to wade through hundreds of boy bands and throw-away reality TV pop stars to find the best independent music in the world."

eMusic has held the No. 2 market share position among digital music services for much of 2006. It established its current subscription model, in which users pay $10 a month for 30 downloads, in 2003. But although it took the company two years to sell its first 50 million downloads, it has taken less than a year to sell the next 50 million.

eMusic also said today that its catalog has surpassed the 2 million song mark.

The Barenaked Ladies song about Brennan will be made available as an exclusive free track on eMusic for a week in January, before being bundled with their forthcoming album Barenaked Ladies Are Men, which hits stores February 6, as a paid bonus track, which will also be available on eMusic.