MySpace is the better option as of now…we’ll see if that changes. It will be interesting to see if FB Music is truly unique in any way or if it’s just a ripoff.

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It just seems to me that Myspace’s 2x traffic and open profile pages make it better suited than what Facebook currently offers…

myspace’s core business revolved arounds bands and live music.

they have fallen behind on the tech curve… they have by far the most data on live music but it’s damn hard for fans to discover, and very hard for bands to manage.

bands are frustrated with all the competition from overlapping web services out there. do you know how many times a band might have to re-post the same concert date once it’s scheduled? this is really a pain. yet bands can’t afford to not be on myspace.

The iLike app, IMHO, is mainly about their music-guessing game.
That’s what drives most of the traffic. The facility for live music on ilike is
cumbersome and it doesnt cover small bands.

facebook has a huge hurdle to climb to get bands to re-post the same artist profiles and manage one for facebook as well as their myspace… and it could be seen as a copycat move by users who are used to crawling through myspace for their live music info.

Does anyone have any idea how many bands are registered with profiles on myspace? As of 3 years ago, I think the count was around 700K.
If you go to music->shows and search with all options open, you see a count of like 4M bands! Even if half those are fake profiles, this is a huge number. It’s the “long tail” of live music. From what I know, about 75% of such bands are touring at any given time.

So maybe the real question is how facebook would REACH all those small bands - unless their access is limited to partnering with a major-label outfit like iLike

I’d say the appeal for many people with Facebook (well the early members) was that it was a niche product. Now users have to be careful of what material is on the website, who’s able to see it, etc. Now employers look on Facebook (like that’s the best representation of a person’s work ethic, etc). I completely agree that it’s becoming to widespread in other age groups for my liking.

However I glad somebody has tried to take on MySpace with their music section. It’s awful. You can’t browse for artists easily, every page looks different, lots of SPAM, etc, etc. I don’t even like iLike or Last FM. Hopefully someone will come up with a good application of todays popular music. I really like PureVolume (www.purevolume.com) but it doesn’t really have many mainstream artists besides in the Rock genre. I even tried to make some improvements by making a website called CDNoise (www.cdnoise.com) but haven’t updated it much since.

Great idea, but kind of wish it was from somebody else other than Facebook.

They want to gain market share , they have to go toe to toe with the aging giant. I doubt they will alienate there base.. I don’t know many collage kids that would be upset enough to abandon their network. I think music It’s just a feature of modern social networks at this point.