TVT Records, hoping to spur Internet-users to purchase its music online, have made upwards of 1,500 tracks available as free downloads in a promotion that runs through Dec. 31. The campaign, dubbed "Downloadable Christmas," features songs in the Microsoft Windows Media format that will time-out after 60 days.

Snoop Dogg [ tickets ]'s ''G'd Up,'' from his forthcoming TVT album, ''Snoop Dogg Presents Tha Eastsidaz,'' is among the available selections. The song isn't due to hit stores until Dec. 7, and the album--his first under a new deal with TVT--is scheduled to be released in January.

Other artists featured in the promotion include Nine Inch Nails [ tickets ], Speech [ tickets ], Sevendust [ tickets ], XTC [ tickets ] and Guided By Voices. The downloads are available via TVT's official website.

In related news, the online preview of Metallica's forthcoming symphonic album ''S&M'' attracted more than 1 million listeners since the promotional effort debuted last Thursday (11/19), according to the band's publicist.

Metallica and Elektra Records, through an alliance with more than 150 websites, has been streaming ''S&M'' in its entirety during the week-long promotion. Metallica's official website features listening instructions. The promotion included a live webcast of Metallica's Nov. 23 performance with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Madison Square Garden in New York.