Here’s an interesting study in contrasts. When MySpace acquired iLike back in August, MySpace left the site mostly intact. The iLike home page is still there, you can still add iLike’s music-finding and sharing application to your Facebook page, and iLike is given prominent placement in Google search results for music-related queries, thanks to an October deal between MySpace and Google. (That deal also included several other companies.)
In the wake of acquiring smaller digital music services iLike–and now, it looks like, Imeem–MySpace continues to attempt to align itself as the foremost player in the digital music industry. On Wednesday, the News Corp. division rolled out a music charts page to track the most popular music getting listened to on the social site.
It’s fairly self-explanatory. There’s a prominent “movers” section featuring artists that have seen an uptick in activity recently, and music can be filtered by genre, country, and label category (indie, unsigned, or major). Then there are links to “friend” an artist, buy songs, and watch music videos on MySpace’s recently launched music video portal.
Nachdem das Social-Networking-Portal Facebook bereits im März dieses Jahres erste Gespräche mit den Majors für ein eigenes Musik-Angebot geführt hatte, verhandeln die Betreiber der Online-Plattform nun angeblich mit verschiedenen Streaming-Portalen wie Imeem, Rhapsody, Lala und iLike über einen Outsourcing-Deal, wie die “New York Post” berichtet.
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Ab 19. September soll das neue Album, “Radio Retaliation”, der Thievery Corporation über die beiden Online-Portale Facebook und iLike fünf Tage vor dem offiziellen Release als Stream verfügbar sein. Dies meldet das Branchenmagazin “Billboard”. Es ist das erste Mal, dass iLike und das Social-Networking-Portal Facebook eine gemeinsame Promotion-Aktion starten.
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