LIST OF MUSIC WEBSITES
Here I present descriptions of several websites relevant to this paper. Many of
the descriptions are quoted from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.com or from the
websites themselves.
Myspace.com: “MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive,
user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and
videos for teenagers and adults internationally.” “MySpace operates solely on
revenues generated by advertising as its user model possesses no paid-for features for
the end user.” “According to Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently the world's fifth
most popular website, and the third most popular website in the United States, though
it has topped the chart on various weeks.” Myspace allows users to post their music,
videos, bios, tour information, pictures, etc. on their personalized pages.” (wikipedia)
Myspace also provides methods of directly contacting other members of the massive
network for free marketing. For instance, bands can look through “friend lists” of
similar artists and contact those fans who are most likely to be interested in their
music. Furthermore, musicians can now sell their MP3s directly from their myspace
pages through an imbedded store provide by snocap.com
Facebook.com: “ The website has more than 64 million active users worldwide.
From September 2006 to September 2007, the website's ranking among all websites,
in terms of traffic, increased from 60th to 7th, according to Alexa.” (Wikipedia)
Facebook has recently started allowing musician pages similar to those of Myspace.
iLike.com: “iLike has a free Facebook application which allows users to play clips of
music they like on their profile, show concerts they are going to and play a music
trivia quiz. The application had great success after its release, making it one of the
most popular applications on the Facebook Platform. As of November 2007, iLike
has more than 15 million users. With the launch of Facebooks Pages, iLike now
creates pages for bands.” (Wikipedia)
Youbtube.com: “YouTube … is a video sharing website where users can upload,
view and share video clips.” All 4 major labels have now signed deals with
google—youtube’s owner—agreeing to compensate labels for music video
publication.” (Wikipedia)
iTunes: “iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple on
January 8, 2001 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for playing and organizing
digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents
on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone. Additionally,
iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the Internet to purchase and download
digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various
podcasts, feature length films (available only in the USA), Movie Rentals and
Ringtones.” (wikipedia) iTunes is the second largest music retailer.