The just-launched MySpace Music is all about making money for the labels, right? So it would behoove them to have songs that the people want to buy available for purchase on the service, no? Come with me as I try to buy the top 10 songs on this week’s Hot Digital Tracks chart by using MySpace’s widgetry: MORE »
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MySpace Music Will Not Let You Buy Whatever Popular Single You Like
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MySpace Music Gets Ready For A Big Amazon Affiliate Check
A week and change after schedule, the much-ballyhooed MySpace Music–in which the fading social-networking service and the major labels come together in hopes of making at least some money off their technology–has launched. Some clicking around reveals that it’s not really that much of a great leap forward as far as the consumer experience goes; the number of streamable songs from artists on participating labels (Universal, Sony, and Warner; EMI has signed on, too) is way up in some cases, thanks to the new site’s desire to be the biggest Amazon affiliate ever. But the big innovation–aside from an upgraded music player that also has links to Amazon’s MP3 store embedded within–being the ability to create playlists from songs that are streaming on the service. Streaming playlists with Amazon affiliate links attached? It’s like 2005 all over again! MORE »
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MySpace Music Screenshots Leak: Can You Spot The Differences?
MySpace Music–the joint venture between the social-networking site and the major labels that is apparently going to revolutionize digital music by putting opportunities to actually buy songs and other music-related widgetry right into artists’ profile pages on the site–is still trudging toward its now-one-week-late launch, and I guess to remind people that we’re supposed to be excited about the whole thing, someone leaked a few blurry screenshots of the project. (Kind of odd that the screenshots of a site that’s all about making money for Big Music were leaked to the nerd-insider site TechCrunch, which is firmly in the “music should be free at all times” camp, but I’m sure the fine people at MySpace know exactly what they’re doing in the PR department. Cough.) What new, exciting changes will you see the next time you visit your favorite band’s MySpace page? Let’s do a side-by-side comparison of these alleged prototypes and what they’re replacing. MORE »
MySpace Music Ad Un(?)intentionally Surrounded By Reminders Of Music Business’ Glory Days
The probably delayed launch of MySpace Music has coincided with the social-networking service buying ad space in New York’s Times Square and on Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard–because when an online service pours a lot of money into ads, it’s always a good sign about the viability of its business, right? But what’s more notable about the Times Square ad (pic above, via Songs For Soap) isn’t the fact that one of the Jonas Brothers looks like he’s hoisting an Urban Sombrero above his head. It’s what’s in the immediate vicinity of the ads, and how they represent big music’s accelerated decline in the new millennium. MORE »
The launch of MySpace Music–you know, the joint… MORE »
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MySpace Music, the ass-saving joint venture between the major labels and the buggy place for friends that was supposed to launch today but will instead bow sometime this week, is apparently hoping to raise “well over $100 million” in anticipation of it being worth–hold on to your hats–some $2… MORE »
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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. MORE »
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? MORE »
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? MORE »
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 »
