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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > Technology > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Internet Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters MySpace hopes high as launches music site in UK Thu Dec 3, 2009 2:56pm EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - MySpace expanded its presence in the entertainment market on Thursday with the British launch of its music service, as the social networking site seeks to reinvent itself after being eclipsed by rival Facebook. MySpace Music is already up and running in the United States, and aims to combine music content in the form of songs, videos, artist profiles, playlists and charts with social networking allowing fans to share their discoveries online. Access to the site is free, but News Corp-owned MySpace aims to make money through advertising and by taking a share of sales of concert tickets and merchandise, reflecting broader diversification in the struggling music business. Users can also purchase and download songs and albums on Apple's iTunes digital store. "This is indicative of the direction we want to go," said Courtney Holt, president of MySpace Music. "We want to be a social content and media platform and we believe heavily in the socialization of content as core to our future strategy," he told Reuters in London. "It's not about just a passive listening experience. We want you to be active, we want you to go places, we want you to search for music. Music lives in places that require you to work to find it. We know our audience is hungry for discovery." The website is a joint venture with the four major record companies -- Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group and EMI Music -- and features catalogues from independent labels and unsigned bands. DECLINING SALES It is one of a series of collaborations between record labels struggling with falling CD sales and internet sites like MySpace and YouTube which have become key discovery platforms. In a demonstration of the site, Holt highlighted live concert footage from artists like Eminem and Lady Gaga, interviews with top stars and analytical tools allowing acts to discover the geographical spread of their online fan base. He envisages the site as a tool for both fans and musicians, who are treated as equals on a "level playing field." Holt declined to discuss whether he planned to introduce a subscription service on MySpace Music, and said he was open to more partnerships in the future like the recent acquisition of music recommendation service iLike. He would not comment on "rumors" that MySpace Music was in talks to buy online music business Imeem. "The music business is constantly evolving as new models are being evaluated. Some of this has been built by us, some of these are partners, so I think we are always on the lookout for the right way to evolve this business." Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Nokia says halving smartphone offering also on reuters Blog: Time to kick Russia out of the BRICs? 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