MySpace possibly excludes independent music artist
By Rab Bakari • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Music
There will be an “exodus” of music artists from MySpace in a row over the website’s new music download service, a record label boss has warned.
Independent record labels have cried foul after failing to reach a deal for their acts to appear on MySpace Music.
“MySpace has been floundering lately already, and people have been moving toward Facebook and so on,” said Tom Silverman, boss of Tommy Boy Records.
…MySpace has joined forces with the four major record labels for their stars to appear on the service.
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MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Born out of eVerse; MySpace now boasts over 110 million subscribers with most users registered from the USA
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MySpace still has many unsigned artists and I hope the site continues to be a available platform for unsigned,
unknown artists. I suppose unsigned artists are distinct from signed artists on minor, independent labels?
I do have a MySpace site myself, strictly for networking purposes. I’ll stick with it. I do feel it a bit overmuch
to have to maintain and to have one’s information on multiple social networking sites. These can become yet
more obsessions that fritters away one’s time.