Searchme tries music streaming to attract users
Webware.com — ... Unlike some services, like Yahoo's music search, which will only allow users to play 25 streams each month, Searchme's music streaming is unlimited and generally provides a better design for music searching. But with a slew of competitors that offer streaming, like MySpace Music, ...

MySpace Signs Deal with Indie Label IODA
Mashable! — ... , an indie music label. The partnership promises to add over “one million new songs into MySpace Music’s growing indie catalogue.”  ...

MySpace Gives Up On The Netherlands
TechCrunch — ... Another caveat from the interview, which was republished by many Dutch news sites: MySpace is focusing its efforts in launching MySpace Music across Europe in the first quarter of 2009. ...

RWW Predictions: Facebook Music Coming Soon?
ReadWriteWeb — ... launch its long awaited Myspace Music service. Users of Myspace can now assemble playlists from a vast collection of music from four major labels and one independent distributor. Users can also stream these songs for free or purchase them free of DRM restrictions thanks to the AmazonMP3 service integration. Myspace Music isn't ...

Industry Moves: Playlist Gets Facebook Vet As New CEO; Investment From Pilot Group
paidContent — ... Palo Alto, CA-based company also announced that it received an undisclosed investment from Pilot Group and its founding member Bob Pittman will join Playlist's board. Playlist raised $3 million in its first round last year, and launched Project Playlist, which lets users create and share online playlists, port them to their social media profiles and buy associated ringtones. It has considerable competition from newcomers like blip.fm and last.fm, not to mention MySpace Music. Meanwhile Van Natta's former employer has its eyes on ...

MySpace Music Finds Leadership
WebProNews Feed — ... It's Official MySpace Music finally has leadership. Last night, MySpace announced that Courtney Holt has officially been named the President of MySpace Music. He will begin his tenure there on January 5th, and he will be responsible for overseeing growth and development of the MySpace Music brand. Courtney understands how to successfully blend technology with music and the resulting new business opportunities born from such a combination, said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and Co-Founder of MySpace. Courtney s unique vision and willingness to innovate makes him an incredible addition ...

The top 5 streaming music services on the Web
Webware.com — ... A relatively new entrant to the market, MySpace Music has quickly become one of the most appealing music streaming services on the Web. Its library of music is huge -- it features songs from all the major labels and independents -- and learning more about the artist and song was made easy thanks to MySpace's wealth of information for each track. Unlike Pandora, I was able to pick any songs I wished from the company's library and add it to a playlist that I could play an unlimited number of times. That may be a simple addition, but being able to repeat songs and choosing to ...

Facebook could learn a thing or two
Webware.com — ... MySpace and Facebook are often compared when we discuss social networks, but that doesn't mean they should be deemed equals. In fact, MySpace's Music integration not only makes it an attractive social network, but it also makes Facebook's service look comparatively boring. MySpace Music is one of the best streaming music services on the Web. Allowing access to millions of songs without worry of copyright violation and offering the ability to share playlists with other MySpace users means the company's music service adds far more value to the social ...

2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
TechCrunch — ... I do normal cable television. iPhone 3G The first gadget I’ve included over the years - the iPhone 3G, which was announced on June 9, 2008, is simply the best device I’ve ever used. Sure, it doesn’t have a physical keyboard. But I can actually browse the web with this thing, and that more than makes up for a slower typing speed. This is a beautiful thing. MySpace Music MySpace Music is just a couple of months old and is still very buggy, but it changed the ...

MySpace Music Makes Some Deals to Bolster Catalog
WebProNews Feed — [image] Gets Some of the Indies It Was Lacking MySpace Music MySpace Music is about to get several hundred thousand more songs songs, as it has just made deals with Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, and RoyaltyShare. Plus, the music catalog of Wind-up Records, the nation s largest independently owned and operated record label, will be available via MySpace Music s existing distribution deal with Sony Music Entertainment. These important new partnerships will allow the MySpace Music community to access even more of their favorite independent music ...

What I love about MySpace Music
Webware.com — ... , the song discovery service powered by the Music Genome Project, and loved every minute of it. But over the past couple months, things have changed and I've quickly started to dedicate all my music time to MySpace Music. ...

Aster Data Friends MySpace, Making the Most of 2009 [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... When MySpace grows, its reliance on Aster grows. For example, a brand new Aster cluster handles the sea of data for MySpace Music, which provides partner record labels with information ranging from how much money they can expect to make from the service to how particular songs are performing. ...

Aster Data Making the Most of 2009 [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... When MySpace grows, its reliance on Aster grows. For example, a brand new Aster cluster handles the sea of data for MySpace Music, which provides partner record labels with information ranging from how much money they can expect to make from the service to how particular songs are performing. ...

A Look At The Improved MySpace Music
TechCrunch — Over the last few weeks MySpace Music has quietly rolled out a number of new features that should make the service significantly more appealing to consumers. While MySpace Music kicked off to an fairly impressive start when it launched last September, seeing a huge amount of traffic and streamed songs, even its President Courtney Holt has conceded that it wasn’t very user-friendly and didn’t bring many new features to the table. The initial launch of MySpace Music was mostly about laying the groundwork to build a ...

New Social Network for Music, Worldsings, Launches with Contest for World's Best Song
ReadWriteWeb — ... wants to "unite artists and music fans from around the world." If that concept sounds a lot like what MySpace is doing with their music offering, that's because it is - but there's a twist. Like MySpace, ...

MySpace Music Announces Executive Team (Internal Memo)
TechCrunch — MySpace Music, the joint venture between MySpace and the major labels to provide free streaming music to users, is announcing its executive team this afternoon. The president of the company, Courtney Holt, was announced late last year. Today the company showing off the rest of the team. The key new executives are Jamie Kantrowitz (SVP Strategy and Global Marketing), Alex Maghen (CTO), Nancy Taylor (Lead Counsel, VP Business Development & Legal Affairs) and Roberto Fisher (VP Product and Operations). The memo ...

Announcing TechCrunch50 2009
TechCrunch — ... and MySpace Music are back for their second year of partnership. Additional partners will be named in the months leading up to the conference. ...

Watch Out, Hulu: Big Media Getting Ready to Eat its Young
NewTeeVee — ... Hollywood and the major record labels have always enjoyed a love-hate relationship with new media, alternating between roses and lawsuits for online entrepreneurs, if you will. Lately, it was looking a little like love was going to win. Hulu, after all, had convinced its detractors that even big dinosaurs can get things right, and record labels had started to embrace services like MySpace Music and ...

YouTube And UMG Team For VEVO Premium Music Video Hub
TechCrunch — ... Because users will apparently be able to watch the content through YouTube.com, I question if the VEVO portal will ever gain much traction - why visit VEVO if you can just go to YouTube, which everyone is used to? And the social community angle isn’t unique either - sites like MySpace Music already allow users to connect over music content, as did the now-defunct ...

VEVO: YouTube And UMG Team For A Premium Music Video Hub That We Don’t Really Need
TechCrunch — ... Because users will apparently be able to watch the content through YouTube.com, I question if the VEVO portal will ever gain much traction - why visit VEVO if you can just go to YouTube, which everyone is used to? And the social community angle isn’t unique either - sites like MySpace Music already allow users to connect over music content, as did the now-defunct ...

MOG relaunches, calling itself the “Huffington Post of music news”
VentureBeat — ... and MySpace Music, it offers a mix of social networking and music news. And, like a number of other sites that rely on user-generated content, ...

Facebook Amps Up its Music Ambitions With The Jonas Brothers Live
Mashable! — ... This is a big move by Facebook into the music space, a place where they are currently lagging behind competitors. While other bands have done launches using Imeem/a>, iLike, or MySpace Music, Facebook has never been the ideal platform for music media. By partnering and promoting a band as large as The Jonas Brothers, Facebook may attract other artists to conduct similar launches in the future. This is also a loss for MySpace Music; The Jonas Brothers were a big face of the MySpace Music launch last year. The Jonas Brothers have ...

Make music a social experience with these sites
Webware.com — ... MySpace Music To call MySpace Music--a smaller part of MySpace proper--a social network is difficult. It's basically a sub-section of MySpace where you can find and listen to music. You create playlists with tracks from artists you like, decide whether you want that playlist to be public or private, and listen. ...

MySpace Music Appears To Be A Hit, Increases Traffic Tenfold Year-Over-Year
TechCrunch — MySpace may not be the hottest thing in social networking any longer, with visitor numbers and page views decreasing at an alarming rate, but apparently its free music streaming service MySpace Music is still something of a hit. According to Nielsen data (PDF) for June 2009, traffic to MySpace’s music subdomain has grown 190% since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a staggering 1,017%. This traffic includes at least one visit by our own MG Siegler, who was happy to learn Pearl ...

MySpace Disables Auto-Play Of Profile Songs To Get Streaming Costs Under Control
TechCrunch — MySpace Music, which launched a little less than a year ago, is the one bright spot of growth in an otherwise flatlining MySpace. But all that popularity comes at a price - billions of free streaming songs are costing MySpace up to $10 million a month in streaming fees, says a source, and the joint venture may lose $20 million or more this year. To minimize those losses, MySpace has made a big change to it’s product - songs no longer auto-play when you visit a MySpace user profile. Autoplays accounted for a billion or more song streams per ...

MySpace Confirms iLike Acquisition
Contentinople: — ... (NYSE: NWS)-owned social-networking company said iLike management -- including CEO Ali Partovi, president Havi Partovi, and CTO Nat Brown -- would remain intact and the startup would keep its Seattle office. Interestingly, the acquisition was not made through the MySpace Music joint venture that the social network ...

MySpace Music Rolls Out A Sleek, More Interactive Homepage
TechCrunch — MySpace may not be the leader in the social networking space anymore, but its free music streaming site, MySpace Music, has been growing fast. Which is why it’s not surprising that the social network is continuing to improve on this popular product. Today, it appears that MySpace Music has launched a new version of its homepage with UI redesign and several new features (we’ve confirmed with the company that that the redesign is new). The new homepage is more visually appealing, with images of artists and bands front and ...

Pearl Jam Takes Over MySpace Music With New Album Debut
TechCrunch — ... When I came to write for TechCrunch, I never realized that I would get to write about my favorite band while I was growing up, so often. But I do once again today because Pearl Jam has an exclusive deal to premiere their new album on MySpace. ...

Your Guide to Music on the Web, Part II
TechCrunch — ... And finally MySpace Music: A massive hub of free music on the web. MySpace Music gathers all of its music accounts into one searchable page by genre. You can see the entire discography of your favorite artists from anywhere on the globe: view the artists’ music pages, listen to their music, track local concerts and much more. You can also search entire collections of free-to-watch video uploaded by artists or users. Read reviews by users, blog posts by both users and artists, and basically dive into an endless amount of content. Addictive. ...

Warner Music Negotiates More Control In YouTube Deal. Could This Be Trouble For VEVO?
TechCrunch — ... That spells trouble for VEVO, because the site will really only be appealing if it can get all four labels on-board. Even if VEVO turns out to have a great viewing experience, that’s really only half the battle — users are more likely to go to a site that has the music video they want every time than they are to one that’s hit-or-miss. Of course, the site most people will turn to will be YouTube itself, which does feature videos from all four labels (MySpace Music does as well). ...

MySpace Adds Music Videos
NewTeeVee — ... MySpace launched a new music video portal today, aggregating licensed content from both big and independent record labels. CEO Owen Van Natta announced the news at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. ...

Add Me As a Frenemy: MySpace and Facebook Discuss Sharing Content
Inside Facebook — ... The report is vague about any details. Given MySpace’s focus on music — it also has the MySpace Music property where users can stream playlists of full songs, and some new features for artists — we wonder if the discussions are perhaps about music in particular? MySpace Music is a joint venture with the record labels, which is how the social network has the rights to stream playlists. iLike’s ...

Exclusive: Microsoft's MSN Is in Early Talks With MySpace About Music Tie-Up
BoomTown — ... consistently ranks substantially lower that other big online music properties in terms of traffic, while MySpace Music is always near the top. ...

Google Lifts the Curtains on Its New Music Service
NYT > Technology — ... and MySpace Music . People who click on that link will, in most cases, get a pop-up window that allows them to play the full song once, for free, along with a link to buy the song. Entering an album name or band name into Google yields similar free listening opportunities. The service could significantly change how people look for music online. Music searches on Google, heretofore, have typically generated links to Wikipedia, random ad-filled lyrics sites and, in some cases, YouTube videos. But it usually took a few hops across the Web to actually sample a song. Not anymore. ...

Google launches music search with Lala, Pandora, Rhapsody, imeem and MySpace
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... on Google's search results pages. Searching for Cold Play, for example, will yield the band's album cover art, alongside four popular songs that users can play once for free. Once a song has been played by a user, they will only be able to hear a 30-second sample of tune. Google itself isn't paying record companies for the rights to play millions of songs on its search page; its partners are. Those include Lala, Pandora, imeem, MySpace Music and Rhapsody, a subscription service from Real Networks. All ...

Google Lifts the Curtains on Its New Music Service
Bits — ... and MySpace Music . People who click on that link will, in most cases, get a pop-up window that allows them to play the full song once, for free, along with a link to buy the song. Entering an album name or band name into Google yields similar free listening opportunities. The service could significantly change how people look for music online. Music searches on Google, heretofore, have typically generated links to Wikipedia, random ad-filled lyrics sites and, in some cases, YouTube videos. But it usually took a few hops across the Web to actually sample a song. Not anymore. ...

Google Unveils Music Onebox Search Service
Switched — ... or MySpace Music. Typically, users will be able to stream a song one time for free before being asked to purchase it. ...

MySpace Fashion Socializes Content Around Style, Celebrities And Designers
TechCrunch — ... on its communities that are based on niche verticals, such as MySpace Music. Van Natta said that he thinks MySpace has a unique position on the web because of its music deals with all the major labels and the independent ones in the music space. Van Natta’s strategy is being applied in other verticals and ...