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MySpace Music Down Under
MySpace Music has opened up shop in Australia & New Zealand as of today, Oct. 1. The popular social media network will have streaming music, playlist functions, and ringtone capabilities. This differs from the Myspace platform in that this one is specifically for music. New’s Corporation, owner of MySpace, has plans to roll MySpace Music [...]
Facebook vs. MySpace
It’s official. Facebook has now surpassed MySpace in unique visitors. For May 2009, Facebook had 70.278 million unique visitors compared to 70.255 million for MySpace (results by comScore). Yet, for artists, MySpace is still the go-to site for music. A MySpace page is still a requirement and it seems to have a better platform for [...]
MySpace vs. YouTube
Which of the popular sites of MySpace & YouTube garner more listens for popular music? Recent data points to an almost 7 to 1 ratio in favor of MySpace. Now, the comparison is not exactly apples to apples as YouTube is in a video format and most of the MySpace listens occur in only an [...]
MySpace’s Mistake
MySpace recently made a strategic move by starting MySpace Music. This upgrade of MySpace now allows users to access free streams of music by all the major labels and most of the independent labels. To obtain the music from the major labels, MySpace had to sign deals with the labels, giving them roughly 40% ownership [...]
MySpace Mobile
MySpace has revamped their website so that videos will show up on most mobile devices, including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct. However, it still will not show up on the Apple iPhone. The other phones have the capacity for streaming videos, which MySpace now allows, but [...]
Democracy in China?
After a mere 10 years, Guns ‘n’ Roses is releasing their new album aptly titled Chinese Democracy. For a while, it seemed that the album release had about as much of a chance of being released as the Communist government of China allowing a vote to take place for their next leader. Well, the cd [...]
IODA & MySpace Music
IODA has just signed a deal with MySpace Music to offer their catalog of independent artists to MySpace’s new music platform. This is a big step, and one that should assuage those complaining that MySpace music just caters to the major labels. IODA is the Independent Online Distribution Alliance and is basically a marketing and [...]
MySpace’s Billions
In just one week’s time, the new and improved MySpace Music has streamed over 1 billion song plays. That is pretty incredible for a site that will share the revenues with the artists and labels. The major labels also have strong equity stakes in the venture. Here is a list of the top songs for [...]
MySpace Music
A major shift occurred in the music industry this past week. MySpace Music was officially launched as a Joint Venture between the major record labels and MySpace. Users will be able to stream ad-supported music for free and create playlists. Billboard magazine said this is “the most ambitious attempt to profit from free full-song streaming [...]
Myspace Music
MySpace Music is supposedly being launched within the next few weeks. MySpace Music will be a new direction for the well-known music discovery website and will include ad-supported on-demand streaming playlisting. It will also include DRM-free (digital rights management) downloads powered by Amazon that will allow the downloads to go right into iTunes. MySpace Music [...]
