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Clearly you people havn't heard of Last.FM

Sigh... a Tech Blog run by Luddites.

I'd have to agree with mgillespie on this. The quote "It's the biggest new launch we've done since we started.." has been used by MySpace and its parent company many times before.

The entire MySpace music 'service' will most likely be popular with those who either don't use or don't know of last.fm or services like it. I'm one of those who find the auto-play music on MySpace profiles to be the most annoying thing in the the world.

Will the service work and become insanely popular? Most likely. Why? Because its a part of MySpace. Anything that is added to MySpace always becomes popular. Call it "the MySpace effect" if you wish.

Clearly Rory has:

mgillespie, as fun as abuse on the internet is perhaps you should read the blog before posting.

I'm referring specifically to:

It's what you might call a "free first, pay later" strategy. In that, it's similar to the service launched by last.fm earlier this year. A spokesman for that "social" music service, now owned by CBS, called me this morning to gently suggest that MySpace's offering was a rather tired imitation. "They don't have a core of passionate music fans like we do," he said. "And they're not providing a way to navigate and filter all this content in the way that we do."


Still, well done on posting first though.

MySpace music is a great place to meet new talented and aspiring artists - especially ones that don't fit into the major record companies catalogues.

You can already stream a few songs from each artist on Myspace and Last.FM has taken this function further. There does appear to be less and less incentive to buy music as it is freely (and legally) available through these and other services.

The aim might be to lessen the impact of P2P downloads but this seems like a 'try before you buy' scheme that is missing the 'buy' component. I don't believe that advertising revenues alone will be sufficient to sustain the business mode.

Re. mgillespie, clearly this is a Tech blog not read properly by Tech poseurs.

Another music service! Do we not have enough already?

For a music service to be popular, it has to be able to tempt people from other services, such as Napster and iTunes.

None of the services mentioned yet have anything that is "brand spanking new".

Just makes you yawn really...

MySpace? It still exists?

I'm not sure I quite see the point of this update. Are MySpace just offering abilities to create playlists, as is on offer on various other, better music websites? Sorry if I'm being an idiot, but I can't see much past that.

Thats all a very well, but being an artist who has several myspace accounts for different projects, I'm fairly annoyed that I won't be seeing a penny. I'm sure if they gave an artists a percentage of the adverts that they get from page views, MANY more artists will sign up and start using myspace again (I've found myspace very very dead in the past year).

"Revolutionise the fusty old music business"? Isn't it too late? Haven't they already failed? Downloads that cost as much as the physical product. Over priced physical products that jump from 3 pounds to 15 and back depending which shop, which week. Get the prices down, get back a culture of buying again, let in the small man, direct artist sales etc. that the net was made for. Perhaps we'll see the day where a lot of artists make a living rather than a few (and their managers) make a fortune.

zzzzzzzzz yet another "iTunes killer".

Can no one come up with any original ideas anymore?

Isn't myspace already dead?

The reason lots of people stopped using it was because of the very intrusive ads, and now they are increasing them?

It will be soon

Many musicians throughout history who have put their love of music and the creating of it before just making money out of people regardless of the output have lasted now for centuries. It's now called classical and invariably they only had their music to live on in this world before they passed on to the next one. Their tunes live as long as the instruments that can be made to play them. That is the satisfaction of a true musician.
Many of the 'sound's' made today are exactly what they say, a sound with a beat which has lost the true 'soul' of what music is all about - to sooth, provide good feelings, vitalise people, sympathise or emathise with people, or just simply dance to or listen to whilst relaxing from a hard days work. Most of what you hear today is just a 'sound experience' good or bad and in electronic terms it will not last.
Too much of anything is a bad thing and to bombard the population with music everywhere in shops, supermarkets and workplaces actually irritates eventually, gives you no choice to turn it off if you happen to have a headache and actually becomes 'a noise nuisance' or 'pollution' damaging ear drums and causing deafness.
With My Space young people who 'love' music and want to express themselves through it can do so and get heard for their music and not just to be used as 'profit fodder'. They increase their learning of it as they go and no one is obliged to listen to it if they do not want to , unlike the supermarkets and workplaces etc where sometimes it stops you from thinking at all.
It provides a social interaction on a music level and as every musician knows it takes one to recognise one. Surely that is healthier that some other persuits that take place in the world today.

I look forward to the day when music as it should be and for what it should be finds its way back into society to make us all better.

After all 'Music makes the world go round' and 'If music be the food of love - play on'.

A minor niggle, but "to coin a phrase" does not mean "to use an old phrase". it means to invent a new one.
I doubt you created the phrase:
"show my the money"