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An Open Letter To The MySpace Music People

Dear MySpace HR department: I know you guys are having a hard time finding a CEO for your big joint venture with the music business, having asked a ton of people, all of whom have turned you guys down. Sure, the whole structure over there is a mess, with people from Universal Music and News Corp. making demands, and there's no particular structure through which to make money. But if Andy Schuon, formerly of CBS Radio, doesn't take the gig, I'm probably still available. CNet mentions that your company should consider someone from iTunes, and I've compiled quite a few Essentials for the site on a freelance basis. That sort of counts, I think. I don't have all that pride baggage of needing to make the site successful to feed my own ego, so that should help when the whole thing ends up shuttering in a year or two. Give me a call and we can talk benefits. [CNet]

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MySpace Music: The Run-Up To Launch Is Getting "Desperate"

The latest problems plaguing MySpace Music, the fading social-networking service's joint venture with the majors that is allegedly going to launch in September: A slew of candidates for the CEO position have flat-out turned down the gig; finding a CEO now, if it happens, would be dicey, since any new bigwigs would likely have enough opinions on how things are going to warrant sweeping changes; and the technology team is getting "all-consuming and desperate" in its attempts to hook the service into MySpace's toothpicks-and-glue infrastructure, because they're sure that any further delays will alienate partners. On the bright side, this will probably make the service's Snocap experiment seem like a resounding success in hindsight. [The Deal via Hypebot]

MySpace music: It's about as well-thought-out as you would expect, i.e. it still doesn't have a CEO or a launch date even though it was announced to much fanfare back in April. Anyone want to offer up odds on this thing actually launching by the end of 2008? [Silicon Alley Insider]

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Surprise! Indie Labels Probably Won't Make As Much Scratch From MySpace Music As Majors Will

Are indie bands going to get screwed by MySpace Music, the social-networking site's joint venture with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group? If by "screwed" you mean "not getting as much of a share of the ad revenues as the big boys, if they get any at all," then the answer is "of course." Listening Post had a little chat with MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe on the topic of spreading MySpace Music's wealth, and he said that there were just too many bands out there to give a share of ad revenue to every single group of guitar-toting bros with a page on his site. And if they don't like it, they should remember how they should be happy that their bands got access to the "free platform" that MySpace has to offer, what with its unparalleled ability to connect bands with fans from all over the world... and then make those fans think that they're spammers after their accounts get phished. More »

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This Just In: Major Labels And MySpace May Not Have Indies' Best Interests At Heart

So, MySpace Music! It's going to change the distribution of recorded music as we know it... or at the very least entice people into giving their credit card numbers over to the site, thus setting themselves up for a lifetime of fake Macy's gift card offers. No, but seriously, it's going to be an incredible leap forward for the entire industry, because it'll give money to artists and labels and allow people to listen to said artists' and labels' music for free, right? Well, actually, that whole "giving money" part may not be true for the many independent labels out there whose bands account for millions of pages on the site, but who aren't part of the joint venture that MySpace has entered into with three of the four major labels. A letter from the indie-leaning digital distributor The Orchard outlines some of the concerns that those not affiliated with a major label might have about the service: More »