It’s been more than five months since MySpace launched MySpace Music–so how’s it doing?
"Our traffic is huge," MySpace Music President Courtney Holt told CNET News in an interview. "Our usage is very high. People are doing a lot of different things with music on our platform." There are currently more than 5 million bands with music on the streaming-and-discovery music service, and more than 100 million playlists have been created, and it was a matter of days before MySpace Music hit its billionth stream.
But the service is still evolving, Holt said, and is willing to change in response to user feedback and criticism. Recently, it’s improved a number of search features, tweaked its music player, and added an "activity feed" to artist pages, among other things. There are also "album pages" that not only give users a hub for purchasing albums, but which also serve as surrogate MySpace pages for artists that may not have created their own.
MySpace, acquired by News Corp. in 2005, got its start as a hub for all things independent music before it turned into the world’s largest social-networking site–only to be usurped by Facebook last year. Since midway though 2008, we’ve seen a lot of signs that MySpace has changed its strategy to reflect a return to its music and media roots. The biggest of these, obviously, was the launch of MySpace Music, a joint venture with the major record labels.
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