"What we're really trying to do - it's not about the money - it's about putting out a cool song with a cool message that somehow makes the world a more peaceful place to live," Wallace said.

The goal was to create an international celebration song to be played up to and during the New Year, he said. The song includes "call outs" of "Happy New Year" in eight different languages: Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, Norwegian, Hebrew and English.

"We created the song and are making it available online for free as a gift to the world, just for fun, and to celebrate the New Year worldwide with a global anthem," Bloom wrote via e-mail.

After being barraged by Christmas music during the holiday season, there is kind of a lull in celebratory music in the week leading up to New Year's, Wallace said. With the exception of the tradition of "Auld Lang Syne" being played at midnight of Jan. 1, there isn't much New Year's-specific music out there, he said.

"It was really cool because I knew I was the ... first person to sing it," Vidic said.

Singing a song that is not too serious was really fun, she said.

"It's just a really fun, upbeat happy song," Vidic said.

After recording and mastering the song at his home studio, Wallace sent the song back through the information superhighway to Taiwan for Bloom to have a listen.

"I had the easy part, just writing the words," Bloom wrote. "George did all the heavy lifting and turned a simple happy-feel lyric into a resounding choral song."

Wallace and Bloom said they hope the song will proliferate through the Internet and become a tune associated annually with the holiday, similar to the "Happy Birthday" song.

Even after completing the song, the song-writing duo has never even spoken to one another.

"We communicate by e-mail often," Wallace said. "But I've never met the guy."

A free downloadable MP3 version of "New Year Dance" is available at Wallace's Web site, www.airbornmusic.com.

"We aren't Lennon and McCartney by any means, who wrote some great songs together, of course, but I think George and I worked really well together in a long-distance Internet collaboration that wasn't about ego or getting personal credit, but just having fun doing it," Bloom wrote.