myspace to take on iTunes and Walmart

[nsmchris]

MySpace is near a deal that will establish their own music store to compete with iTunes and Walmart. This could actually breath some much need fresh air into myspace.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03242008/business/digital_destiny_103302.htm

fyi, the nypost and myspace are both owned by news corp.

[Andrew2]

Monopolism, Next they'll have digital cameras so everyone can take the perfect "myspace picture" with a mirror and flash and all...

Anyways, This actually sounds good.. I think independant musicians can now get people to buy their music.

It also lists ringtones as well :)

I couldn't find any information on who gets the money.. Do these bands and musicians see a dime? :-/

[nsmchris]

I couldn't find any information on who gets the money.. Do these bands and musicians see a dime? :-/

A dime would probably be about right unless they are self marketing and myspace allows indies in. This could be like a itunes version of the original cdbaby concept.

[webman]

Monopolism, Next they'll have digital cameras so everyone can take the perfect "myspace picture" with a mirror and flash and all...

Haha, It's funny because it could be true.

[heliosangel]

Monopolism, Next they'll have digital cameras so everyone can take the perfect "myspace picture" with a mirror and flash and all...


andrew, you might wanna copyright that idea lol.

[Ajay]

more competition the better, maybe one day it will drop to 50 cents a song :D i think i bought like 600.00 worth of music from itunes last year, but lost it all... because i registered my itunes account while i was in the u.s. and when i came back it wouldn't let me download my purchases again with my new ipod :/ that, or i forgot the password to that specific account.. grr

i wish they made an mp3 player with an xfi chipset... because mp3s sound like poop on the ipod :/