MySpace Music - A Place For Musicians

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Since the beginning, music has always been a popular component of the MySpace experience for users. Globally on MySpace Music around 30 million people connect with more than five million major, indie and unsigned artists each month, including Lilly Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Colbie Caillat and Operator Please, whose careers have been launched thanks to MySpace.

MySpace Music is a joint venture between MySpace and all the major, plus a load of independent labels. It allows MySpace users the ability to listen to free and unlimited, full-length audio streaming via an unlimited playlist functionality. That means you can listen, to all the bands signed to those labels, for free. You can add their songs to your page and make playlists direct from the artist MySpace profile. MySpace Music also offers DRM-free MP3 music downloads and ringtones. This means you can buy a track and transfer it to an iPod, MP3 player, CD, whatever you wish and there are no restrictions.

The MySpace Music service is only available in the US at the moment, but we're working towards a phased global launch. As with any global new product launch, the team at MySpace Music want to ensure we have the right local partners, market environment and ecosystem in place to ensure success.

The honest answer is "as soon as we possibly can!" We're excited about the possibility of bring MySpace Music to all of our users! We are actively planning how to provide the MySpace Music experience to each of our markets. There are many tasks, including sorting through various legal and business matters, which must be completed before the MySpace Music platform can become available in your country. In the meantime, we will continue to make incremental improvements to the current music offering, as well as work towards releasing MySpace Music to all of our markets.

You will be able to create your own playlists as soon as MySpace Music is released in your country.

A smart trick is to make sure all your fans and friends have a MySpace page and suggest that they add your songs to their profile, simply by clicking "add" on the song they want. Then everyone who visits their page will hear your music, and if they like what they hear, they can click on the player to get to your profile and add the songs to their own page. And so begins the viral effect... Most song plays are on pages where the song has been added in this way, rather than on the artist's profile itself.

The same thing goes for videos, most plays are not on the artist profile but on the pages where people have added the videos to their own profile. The more friends that have your songs/videos on their profiles, the more plays and visits you will get.

Additionally, if each band member gets a profile page of their own it will extend the band's network and give fans something extra. If each band member builds their own private network of friends, people who would not necessarily go looking for, or find, your music will be exposed to it and be able to see what you're up to and spread the word.

The best way to find information on labels, producers and clubs is to use search functions (such as the Google search on any MySpace page) to look up these types of businesses according to where you are located. Further, most labels, producers, and clubs will maintain MySpace profiles for their businesses, and are friends with artists/bands that they have worked with. Look for artists/bands with similar musical tastes as your own, and see what clubs they are playing in, who is producing their music, and what labels they might be signed with.

Check on the pages of the bands that you feel are the same genre and style as you. In their event calendars you can often find the clubs where they've played, and as most clubs have MySpace pages, you can just send them a message offering your services.

It's easy! Everyone on the MySpace.com network is a potential fan. Pay specific attention to users who have listed certain favourite artists and bands on their profile that your music is similar to, and send them a friend request. You can use the MySpace groups section to target users interested in a certain genre or music type, and you can also send requests to users who are friends with other artists/bands that have similar music to your own. Start by making friends with users who are near your current location (ie. in your home town) and then expand to users who you think might either like your music, or who reside in towns/cities you will be playing in next.

Some examples of acceptable promotion on MySpace are:

Some examples of spamming on MySpace are:

MySpace limits the amount of messages, comments, and friend requests you can send in a day. You will not be deleted or penalised for sending too much - you'll just be informed when you hit the upper limit, and you won't be able to send anymore until the counts are reset within 24 hours. We know that this is not ideal for bands trying to get the word out, but it's not ideal for users of MySpace to be bombarded with unlimited messages from every band on the site. (If we didn't have these limits in place, general run-of-the-mill spammers would exploit them as well.) We are always trying to strike a balance between the community of users who use MySpace to talk to their friends and the bands that use MySpace for promotion.

Our process of selection for featured artists is done on an editorial basis, meaning that we feature bands who are getting particular attention on the site from the users and are contributing new or interesting music.

Check out our Tips and Tricks section and Making the Most of your MySpace for ways to use the functions of the site to build your fan base and create buzz around your music. Being active on MySpace to interact with your community will allow your music to spread virally and make it more likely that we will notice you!

Before you get featured internationally, you need to be featured locally. Our music teams keep their ears to the ground to keep on top of the newest, hottest local talent. Impress them and they'll contact the other MySpace music teams across the world and alert them of your awesomeness!

They are determined on an editorial basis, comprised of different criteria on the artists' popularity.

The two reasons your content was removed from MySpace are:

You can learn more about copyrights here: What is a Copyright?

If your account was locked for uploading copyrighted content, DO NOT UPLOAD THE CONTENT AGAIN!

Even if you feel this was a mistake, do not upload again, your account will be locked. Check your inbox, a message was sent to you with instructions on how to unlock your account, and what to do if you feel your account was flagged for copyright by mistake.

Copyright content can include:

Phishing is a basic form of hacking. Third parties obtain the login information to your profile, and use it to spam your friends list and other MySpace users. If you see comments or bulletins coming from your account that you did not post, you were most likely phished.

Change your password right away!

Some helpful tips on keeping your profile safe:

Other helpful links:

MySpace Help | Terms and Conditions | Safety Tips