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lavant harrod — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:33:01 -0000

give me the service

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tylor — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:48:56 -0000

get silly add to myspace.com

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janisha — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:06 -0000

thankx

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Jalen — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:48:49 -0000

add me as a friend

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Juliette — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:32:14 -0000

Taylor, good call.

I just used http://www.myspacegrab.com/ and its awesome.

Works every single time.

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Taylor Davids — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:26:44 -0000

Why pay per download when you can download for free at a place like Myspacegrab.com where you can Download Myspace Music easily.

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Khala Lucas — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:34:57 -0000

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Re: MySpace Music to Add Paid Downloads

Dave — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:40:06 -0000

Hey C.Money,

We'd like to talk to you about the problems you're having. Your experience is not typical, so let's get to the bottom of it. Please contact me directly. drowley@snocap.com.

-Dave

Re: MySpace Music to Add Paid Downloads

C.Money — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:21:23 -0000

Part of the problem is that the site is so new that it has PLENTY of glitches. When you get your music on it. IF you get your music on it due to the servers and STUFF that receive it. You will be afraid of any adjustments you might make when going back into your music store. I have been having a HARD time getting my songs on for 3 WEEKS!!!!! This sucks!!!! I have gotten Nothing but a automated response from Snocap and IT'S getting MEGA old, spending all this time on the computer when I should and could be making my music is a TOTAl waste of time!!!!!!!

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sarah-lou17 — Sat, 05 May 2007 12:48:50 -0000

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blanca — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:46:39 -0000

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mariah — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:45:34 -0000

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JACKIE O BRIEN AKA THE MIXMAST — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:54:28 -0000

I believe that the only way for a struggeling artist to get abreak is to up load there music on to my space for digital sales please let me know when this feature is available i have created a new style of music jackie o brien AKA THE MIXMASTER

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jeremy — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:41:09 -0000

wtf s all this

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susonya — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:05:41 -0000

I cant get on myspace ..cant open.

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Shaun — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:41:29 -0000

I think we need all checkout www.SoundLoud.com. They are already way ahead of MySpace on this.

Plus MySpace does not have 3 million active unsigned bands. More like around 100,000 at most.

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eque — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:52:55 -0000

myspace's benifit is that it's:

â€¢Â complex to design a profile ( dosen't cut web designers out )
â€¢Â API less ( other communities would be able to have their features if so. Giving myspace value )

I like those guys, a very smart model.

Re: MySpace Music to Add Paid Downloads

eque — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:41:09 -0000

I knew when myspace began to get popular that they were going to hit the music market hard. I knew when Itunes and the"ipod" were exposed myspace is the ONLY company that can compete.

Put it this way, myspace may say "3 million unsigned artist" and "bla bla DRM bla bla" But in reality they are just testing the market. If they were to offer the same services that itunes is offering, they would be a problem to itunes.

Myspace has captured the internet arena for artists to provide an official contact location for themselves, and if they enabled store options it would hurt apple.

Apple is going to have to step their game up on artist presentation.
And customizable accounts. But even then, myspace is already the major player in that area.

I'm sorry guys, but this is an extermination.....

With the power of FOX T.V and connection. Myspace Will become the Arena for presentation and sales. For now aleast.

Google is buying youtube, meanwhile google has a relationship with myspace. Think about it......

Once Myspace calms down with all the POWER moves. I bet they link with Comcast to provide a Internet TV experience that will actually work this time.

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Mathew D — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:04:54 -0000

I would like to provide an analytical approach to the MySpace/Snocap/ PayPal development to put it into better perspective. Philosophically, this is a great move, but however from an artist point of view, the revenue share they are accorded is too much on the low side.

The artists earn too little at the offered revenue share rate and ultimately it only benefits the vendors (MySpace, Snocap, Paypal) as a result of the Long Tail and in pure money terms, it's not win-win. The calculations confirm it - say you price a track at 79 cents (99 cents being for established artists). The revenue share breakdown:
PayPal: US$0.30 + 3.4% (for $0 - $3,000 revenue) = $0.32
Snocap: 15% = $0.12
MySpace: unknown (likely to be from Snocap's share)
Total revenue for billing/ platfomr partners: $0.44 or 56% of retail price!!!
That is quite a hefty giveaway simply for billing and platform services!

But it has also got to be noted that MySpace and YouTube offer incredible potential ala the OK Go phenomenon to make it to the mainstream consciousness.
So the question is how do we balance the returns between fame and fortune. Is all fame and minimal fortune too high a price to pay or should it be more balanced? Currently, the MySpace/ Snocap deal does not seem to offer that balance as they offer fame at a huge premium by taking the lion's share of any major revenue potential from successful artists. But then again, independent artists traditionally do not have much negotiating power, so they will have to accept a certain measure of 'raw end of the deal'

Conceptually the MySpace/ Snocap deal is significant as they have highlighted the POTENTIAL that is there for artists to sell directly to their fans, but in this MySpace/Snocap case, there exists a middleman (to be precise, 3 middlemen!!!) who take too substantial a revenue and eventhough they do not demand 'exclusive rights', they do exercise some control on the artist rights - I suggest that you read Snocap's 13-page Artist Agreement in detail.

So philosophically we all agree that the potential is there for the artist to sell directly to the end-customer but we just need to find the right balance. So from that approach, the MySpace/Snocap/Paypal is a good start but it needs to evolve more.

It certainly seems like a great opportunity for a behemoth like Google to step into and offer reasonable micropayment and revenue share rates for the average Joe Musician to sell his music.

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Pete Cashmore — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:42:00 -0000

Pete Cashmore, blogger, on this:

"Jupiter analysts suck"

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Ivan Pope — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:40:06 -0000

David Card, Jupiter analyst, on this (quote):

Oh, and if anybody was wondering whether MySpace is a threat to the iTunes Music Store -- let alone the iPod -- the answer is â€œnot in the slightest.â€

http://weblogs.jupiterresea...

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Sharpshoot — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:52:14 -0000

Apple's business model depends upon DRM. Anyway this no DRM is for unsigned bands and if it proves to be a strong distribution model we can imagine more established bands following suit. Its going to be an interesting 12 months.