MySpace Music Launches With Major Labels

By Geoff Duncan
September 25, 2008

MySpace has finally launched its long-gestating MySpace Music service, and it's managed to bring all major labels on board for its debut.

Social networking giant MySpace has finally unveiled MySpace Music, its long-gestating digital music service that will compete with the likes of Rhapsody and Apple's market-leading iTunes service. And MySpace Music managed to pull a last-minute coup, bringing all four major music publishers on board (including EMi, which had been holding out) along with Sony and Michael Jackson's Sony/ATV and independent music distributor The Orchard.

Although MySpace Music emphasized the current debut is just the first phase of its business plans, the new service offer free and unlimited ad-supported audio streaming, free playlist functionality, discography and catalogs from Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner Music artists, ringtones by Jamster, and DRM-free music purchases in MP3 format powered by Amazon's MP3 store. The service will also offer music discovery ...

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