Incredible, I know, but for the third time in two days, MySpace does something newsworthy. Today, they topped them all, and they just might have revolutionized music online—little, if any, exaggeration.
How do you listen to music online now? A dollar a download? A limited number of song plays a month? A stream of music with a limited number of “skip this track”s? And your music videos—YouTube, maybe even bootlegs, right?
Just shy of six months after the Financial Times reports that “The big three labels – Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group – together own about 40 per cent of MySpace Music joint venture” and EMI joined “at the last minute.” FT also says that MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe wants MySpace Music “to be the biggest music catalogue in the world.”
And here’s how it works (apparently I was lucky to go straight to My Music; otherwise it’s tough to find the music according to
You can browse all music, or narrow it to songs added by your friends, or top songs in the “major,” indie and unsigned categories.
From the search results you can add the song directly to your playlist:
Or play it in a player in a popup window that also features updates from the artist, if applicable:
In the player, you can also add it to your playlist:
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