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 Legally finding and sharing music online has taken off with wild abandon with the emergence of new social networks encouraging users to express themselves through music. Established examples of successful online communities such as MySpace, Pandora and Imeem.com, are shaping the way people find and share content and defining the way emerging artists are being discovered.
Founded in 2003 by Stanford graduate Dalton Caldwell, Imeem.com reportedly attracts over 20 million users every month, interacting with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. The service is based on a business model similar to MySpace or Facebook, generating dollars through advertising. Subsequently, Imeem splits revenues with the major record labels partnered with the site.
Pandora has become a leading Web 2.0 application providing the Music Genome Project which generates a stream of songs based on your personal likes and dislikes. Users can create a personalized radio station based on thumbs up or down of the artists, songs and albums played on the site. And if Pandora.com has become a thing of the past like last night’s leftover Chinese food or last season’s sneakers, check out these tasty new treats appearing on a web browser near you: - Musicovery.com. is a free webradio allowing registered members to find music based on their mood. The site plays upon those seeking a bit of eye-candy with the web radio antics; the one drawback is hi-fi is only offered to paid subscribers.
- Musicmesh.net uses audioscrobbler data to provide album-based recommendations. Visual nodes are represented by album art and for each album you can explore track-listings, play videos, read reviews, access Wikipedia info, and purchase on Amazon.
If you are tired of MySpace (spam-hole) you can check out these alternative social music spaces, scenes & places: - Woozlyfly.com is a multi-media online network where artists, fans and Djs can interact together using intuitive technology. DigitalFX International, Inc. a digital communications company today announced recently that WoozyFly.com has selected DigitalFX Solutions to host its streaming video services.
- Music Nation is an online network of independent and unsigned artists; this is a place to both discover new music and be discovered. They tout, “It’s a community of artists. Making it. Together.” Nation members create an artist profile page and upload videos, MP3s, photos, slideshows, and anything else they like.
The end-game is that it’s anyone’s game. As media-rich sites continue to propagate, so will the ways in which we can discover and celebrate independent artists. Sorry big labels, you can’t tell me when, where and how to listen anymore.
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