well, for one, i have no reason to go on myspace anymore, thats the only thing i ever used it for. good job guys

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The self-destructive problem with major labels is that they have nearly always sought to dominate and control the music business to the detriment of good music by searching out the fastest way to make a buck instead of nurturing talent.

Since their interest in music is dictated by the bottom line they could care less whether they’re promoting something of lasting value and taking the time it takes to develop actual talent or simply churning out masses of identikit clones of whatever happens to be selling the most units at the time.

The last nail in the music industry’s coffin was the whole Idol nonsense. Glorified karaoke has no place eating up the fickle short attention span of the over-stimulated public or the already overcrowded precious radio airtime. And at $15 – $18 it’s sad to see it eating into people’s CD budgets. That $15 – $18 for an Idol’s record MAY have been better spent on a truly worthwhile artist who really had something to offer other than nice hair, teeth, good poses and telegenic appeal… I’m jus’ sayin’;-)

Idol is a prime example of what is killing… or has KILLED the music industry. Founded by the man who manufactured successes with such wonders as the Spice Girls and Club 7 Idol is just more of the same – flash over substance that ultimately rings hollow and temporary… but not before coaxing the money out of a few pockets in the wake of an utterly artifical hysteria. Great con jobs do not a long term business plan make. Entertainment is one thing great timeless music is another.

Perhaps if major labels catered more actively to the bands, artists, singer-songwriters that actually put them there in the first place and tried to develop careers instead of quick bucks they’d see a turn around. Find other clever innovative grassroots ways to promote so that it’d be possible to recalibrate sales projections to where 100,000 sales would be considered a great success. Quit taking a lionshare of the profits so they could get CD prices down to something resembling reality and the public would actually not mind buying CDs or MP3s again. Out of $15-18$ the artist who makes it all possible is lucky to see 2-3 of those dollars!

Here’s a new business model that’s kind of like the old one: Actively seek out great, interesting, self-contained organic TRULY talented artists (who write their own songs and have their own unique style and sound) who don’t all sound or look alike and combine that with reasonable CD/MP3 prices.

Thank you for such a concise article about the treatment of Indie Record labels by the new MySpace Music service. I agree with you completely that Indie Artist contributed a lot to the growth and popularization MySpace. MySpace used to be a portal for hundreds if not thousands of Indie Artists who wanted to expose themselves to the masses in order to create new fans, generate buzz, and sell their music. Many musicians did come out of their Indie phase and were shot into the mainstream music industry because of their MySpace pages. One example I can think of is OneRepublic which had a MySpace artist page which caught the attention of Timbaland. Now with the new rules that have been put into place, it seems like new Indie Artist cannot create or upload their music which means a lot of artists will not have the opportunity to be exposed to producers and fans, therefore cutting their chances of making it big in the music industry. I know a lot of MySpace users liked the fact that they were able to find new and unsigned bands, because they were able to offer music which was “real” and not part of mainstream. I was wondering if you believed this new music service was going to cause have any negative ramifications for MySpace, such as fans and users leaving their social website and going to another one or Indie Artists coming together and openly endorsing another social website such as Facebook. You mentioned in your post that after posting your article you received a call from MySpace insisting that your story was not true and that they were in fact still allowing the same freedom of their service to Indie Labels. I was wondering why MySpace keeps insisting that this reports of them not allowing Indie Record Labels to be on their service to be untrue, when a lot of independent and prominent news sources are reporting the same facts. Do you believe that the huge amount of interest in this topic has caused MySpace to rethink their agreement with the major music labels and to allow Indie Labels back on their service? Maybe the major labels are afraid of the competition and want to monopolize that service but I do believe that in the coming days if not weeks, Indie labels will again be a huge part of MySpace Music.

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