by John Jorgensen on November 20, 2008
- The album, which has been in the making for 17 years, was made available to be streamed for free on MySpace Music at 9pm last night.
- Previously heard on the radio (two singles) and BitTorrent (full album).
- Available in 25 countries.
- Album goes on sale Nov. 23rd. Whatever that means.
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by Jason Wilk on October 29, 2008
- CNET confirmed that MySpace has offered MTV Networks’ EVP Digital Music and Media Courtney Holt the CEO job at MySpace Music
- Courtney is said to be in the final stages of the process and has possibly already taken the job.
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by David Heyerman on October 1, 2008
- IMeem is one of the most trafficked social networks out there with some 28 million uniques/month
- They were the first site to offer free, streaming music from the four big music publishers.
- In a supposed response to the recent launch of giant direct competitor, Myspace Music, iMEEM has launched a re-design along with a few new features.
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by John Jorgensen on September 26, 2008
- Justin Ouellette, founder of Muxtape, the streaming mixtape creation site that he recently shut down, has written on the site that he is planning to re-launch as a distribution platform for indie bands.
- Ouellette said that even though he had tacit licensing agreements with the 4 major labels, that didn’t stop the RIAA from threatening him with a lawsuit that would cost him millions to fight, money that the ex-Vimeo employee didn’t have.
- With MuxTape gone, FavTape has emerged as the dominant web mixtape creation service.
- Oullette told Rolling Stone that MySpace Music’s model is out-dated, has poor navigation and won’t succeed.
- Editor: So now the RIAA is killing deals that the labels like? And how long until FavTape runs into the same problems as Muxtape?
by Jason Wilk on September 25, 2008
- If you are an avid MySpace user, (I haven’t logged in 9 months and counting) then you should be very excited about the launch of MySpace Music last night.
- It has a nice looking new face, music search works well and the music streaming playlists are a big step up even if the player looks like my Real mp3 player from 1997.
- The experience is still a little cluttered and music pages still move as sluggish as ever, but this will be a big hit nonetheless amongst people already on MySpace.
- More than anything, what is impressive about this project is the structure of deals that needed to come together to make this work.
- MySpace put in $120m of their own money, signed up the 4 biggest record labels in the world to have a stake and participate, lock in major advertisers to support the streaming, they even had to raise an outside round of capital to get this thing off the ground, and all without a CEO.
- Most important, MySpace is trying to get it’s foot in on the future of the music game, which is less about record sales and more about tickets sales, promotional dollars, and merchandise. (Merch, Ticket Sales coming soon)
- MySpace can become an all inclusive Ticketmaster with the ability to push promotions and throw their own shows. This is an area they will move towards and they will win my opinion if they don’t charge me a fuc***g convenience fee.
- Well done MySpace, I still think right now, this is more of just a feature for your already existing customers, but on the deal front, bravo, because you have a real chance to own the future of the music biz.
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