October 2nd, 2008 – Not that I’m an expert, but today I was thinking about MySpace’s role in today’s music scene. Recently, I read a BBC article about MySpace’s connection to Amazon’s music store and its deal with the major record labels. Apparently, you can listen to the songs of major label artists and amass custom playlists with their music. If you want to put the music on your mp3 player, you buy it from Amazon’s music store.
It’s touted as a pretty big deal, but who still uses MySpace? In my experience, it’s a bloated platform that’s slow and ugly (mostly by fault of its users). When’s the last time they had a major platform overhaul? Of course, I still have a MySpace page on the off-chance that people are still poking around on it. There was a time about 5 years ago when MySpace was the place to post your stuff. Companies were looking for the next big thing on it, and there were a lot of great artists trying to get signed. These days, however, video is more important and people are getting deals using YouTube instead.
With Facebook taking over the “king of social media” title, and YouTube cannibalizing artists, is MySpace still relevant?
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