MySpace Music added a few hundred thousand songs to its streaming music service today by signing up four more independent-label aggregators (Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, and RoyaltyShare) plus indie label Wind-up Records. This comes at a time when Facebook is still facing hurdles to launching its own music service.
MySpace Music launched with all the major labels, and was initially criticized for not having enough indie music despite launching the Orchard, the top indie music aggregator. It then followed up with IODA in October (Which represents 6,000 indie labels), and now this set of deals brings the total number of indie tracks on MySpace Music to 4 million.
Some of the artists covered under the latest deal include KRS-One, Marvin Gaye, Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, Creed, Dolly Parton, and Thievery Corporation.
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My relationship with Myspace Music has been love/hate but I am definetly loving this.
I haven’t used Myspace in quite a while for its networking features (Facebook has definetly won that over for me) but Myspace Music will keep me around longer than Facebook would.
They can do all the networking in the world, but until they put some method to the madness, I’ll never use the service. They need to customize the experience based on where the “logged in user” is from by default, especially when it pertains to smaller bands and/or local entertainment. Deliver me useful content – aggregate the show listings and give me a list of “upcoming shows near me”, etc.
My site already does this, and I’m a one person show. Maybe they will think like the users one day.
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MySpace Music has been an absolute bust.
Days = numbered.
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With the help and direction of its media parent, MySpace is emerging strong in the music/entertainment space. It’s a great move, this increases site engagement and could potentially be a significant revenue-generation engine for the site.
This is impressive, but I really don’t like myspace’s interface. I wish facebook could accomplish these types of things…
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Facebook’s interface is confusing and boring. I just don’t get why it’s become so popular. Must be the unlimited lame apps that anyone over 12 wouldn’t be interested in.
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Looks like Myspace is beating Facebook in Music big time…
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How often does MySpace crash ones browser when logging on? I’d gather about 94% of the time.
MySpace Music has been an absolute bust.
Days = numbered.
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umm how slow is FB these days?? I haven’t had a crash on Myspace in quite awhile. Sick of all the Myspace haters
Myspace=music and the addition of indies is awesome news
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young people = myspace
older = facebook
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