MySpace Karaoke launched today. I had actually forgotten about this, but the site is powered by kSolo, an online karaoke service that MySpace parent company Fox Interactive Media acquired back in April 2006. Yep, it took them two years to rebrand and relaunch it.
kSolo joins Newroo as the other startup Fox acquired in 2006 that has sort of languished. After acquiring Newroo (March 2006), MySpace sat on the asset for a year and then beta launched MySpace News. It was and remains a bit of a ghost town, with little integration with the main MySpace service.
MySpace Karaoke may not do much better. kSolo, which has remained live during the 2 year development cycle, has little traffic (nor does its competitor, SingShot, which shut down).
It’s U.S. only for now, with international rollout in the coming months.
Will this be a popular addition to the MySpace world? Here’s an example video, you decide.
Oh jeez come on.
How many different subsidiaries of myspace are there? Maybe they should stop trying to be EVERYTHING, and just work on the one that everyone uses. Spend less money on this, and more on a tableless redesign.
“We apologize, but this content is not licensed in your region, and therefore, cannot be played. “
that is seriously pretty damn cool.
rock on with your bad selves!!
Two years and they’ve not added video to the package? C’mon! No karaoke experience can be complete without *watching* the poor performer (and beer, but TC has not yet mentioned a MySpace Beer acquisition).
kSolo would be better suited as a complement to MySpaceTV rather than being another isolated entity.
yet another georetarded FAIL.
Please don’t tell my in-laws about this! Talking about gaining a new audience. This might seem real corny, but to some this will actually be really really fun…
It could succeed if it targeted users in Japan and China as well as other asian countries – if MySpace karaoke succeeded in the US it would have to first be a social phenomenon and karaoke is big in the US but only at drunken parties, not really online unless somehow virally marketed to the users. I don’t know how this will pan out?
Yea, I agree with Matt, it can’t be called Karaoke without video,
actually we are doing online Karaoke also, and we believe what we offer is much more interesting.
http://www.ikala.tv
They found the one thing that could make MySpace more painful. Now they implemented it.
FAIL.
Singshot didn’t shut down, it was actually aquired by EA, and is now The Sims On Stage (http://thesimsonstage.ea.com). My wife and her neice go on it all the time and sign songs.
Maybe MySpace can take a lesson from EA. EA sends out emails every week with the new songs they add in, and the site seems pretty busy!
Jeeez.
FAIL.
“We apologize, but this content is not licensed in your region, and therefore, cannot be played.
We are working on launching international sites soon so please be sure to check back with us.
Sing your heart out!
MySpace Karaoke team”
Sing my heart out, when it does work in the UK, what a pile of shit!
WTF!!! So, they launched a new version of Ksolo without video and with a limited catalogue with 3.000 songs, and only for the US market???? I can’t believe it!!!
We are running an online video karaoke with more than 13.000 songs, and we are working to launch also in the US market in May. At this moment the website is only for Spanish speakers, but I think our offer is quite better than this failed Myspace Karaoke. Check for yourserlves our website here: http://www.redkaraoke.es
OK, its almost a year later now & myspacekaraoake is going full tilt. Thousands of songs and more coming all the time. I live in Canada so it is obviously international. You can also record with video now. I could never join your website BECAUSE it is only in Spanish. You shouldn’t knock something when you don’t offer a full spectrum service yourself.
And of course there is no lizens for German market…
Ferreira…the whole point is that they legally licensed the songs. I am sure your site is an illegal site, and judging by the crappy midi recordings on there, won’t become very popular.
Singshot – shut down?? It had been acquired by Electronic Arts and is now part of Sims on Stage!!
I wish news corp would stop wasting so much money on myspace so they could bring back arrested development.
http://ksolo.my...amp;uid=3207992
myspce karaoke rocks dudes and dudesses