MySpace Music

In this blog i would like to discuss the phenomenon that is music on MySpace. In the old days you would have to go to open mic nights and bend over backwards to get your music into the ears of record labels.  Luckily, now with MySpace scouts often search the site for the next big band, allowing there to be another way to make it big. I will now discuss what Paul Levinson found when researching MySpace music in his novel "New New Media."

"Music pages" on MySpace were created in 2005. The purpose of the page is specifically for bands and music artists. The band uploads MP3s of their music and invite people on and off MySpace to come and listen for free. Once you build up an extensive number of friends you can let a record label know how much excitement your band is generating on your MySpace music page. In 2006, MySpace took it a step further by partnering with "SNOCAP"and began offering free samples of music, with a purchase option of the full recording at the price you pick.

Artists like Ebony Moore, James Harris, Truth on Earth, Kate Nash, and popular rapper Sean Kingston were all discovered on MySpace. Sean Kingston was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Kingston Jamaica. He used mMySpace to ignite his career by "hitten up" Jonathan J.R. Rottem, a record producer with a My Space account, with messages from his own MySpace account. He was persistent through MySpace till he got the result he wanted, which was No. 1 songs in the U.S., Canada, and Australia since July 7, 2007. MySpace is a for of new new media that has changed the way music is discovered today. This article discusses the art of finding a band on MySpace and how it is definitely possible to get discovered through MySpace.