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MySpace Reaches Deal With Another Music Label

The "virtual fifth label" is now friends with MySpace.  Merlin, an organization that represents independent music companies, is supposed to have signed a deal with the social network that should nicely complement MySpace's existing partnerships with EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner.

MySpace Launches New Music Charts

Today MySpace announced the beta launch of MySpace Music Charts. This is the social networks' attempt at ranking musicians based on popularity.

Hulu Gets Feet Wet in the Music Video Pool

Hulu and record label EMI have struck a deal, which will give the video content site some music videos, one area in which the site has lacked. Hulu fans shouldn't get too excited about the site becoming a big music video destination just yet though. The deal, according to the New York Times, is to give artists Norah Jones her own channel (which is already live), and over time, add more EMI artists. The Norah Jones channel has all of her music videos, concert footage, and interviews.

iTunes Lets You See Previews Without the Download

Apple has launched iTunes Preview, which is a means of showing what music is available on iTunes right in the web browser. This seems like an incredibly obvious way to do it, and one that many have been waiting for way too long, but now if you want to look at the iTunes catalog, without having to install iTunes, you can do so. You can't listen to song previews without installing iTunes, but at least you can see what they have. You do still have to download iTunes to purchase music.

Google's Music Service In China Attracting Advertisers

Google's music service in China hasn't achieved much so far; no one should look for Google's next quarterly financial report to say it's brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue or toppled Baidu.  But neither has it failed, and one person who's close to the service recently indicated that it's picking up steam.

Why British Singer Matt Goss Likes Twittering with Fans

Do you know who Matt Goss is? If you're an American, there's a good chance that you don't. Still, in some places, like his British homeland, he is a star. He's sold 16 million records with his group Bros, which also featured his twin brother Luke. He's been making records for about 20 years.

Yahoo Challenges YouTube On Music Video Front

Watching music videos on YouTube can be an annoying process insofar as, when you search for an artist's name or album's title, you're sure to be shown all sorts of unorganized results and amateurs' covers.  But today, Yahoo tried to make sure no one has the same problem when using one of its services.

Facebook, Foo Fighters To Pair Up Tonight

Call it "The Battle of the Bands and the Social Networks."  Following Weezer-MySpace and U2-YouTube match-ups in the past ten days, a third pairing will soon be added to the mix as a live Foo Fighters performance is scheduled to stream on Facebook this evening.

Google Aims to Make Finding Music Easier

Google began rolling out its new music search feature late yesterday. The feature enables search results with links to audio previews of songs provided by MySpace (which just acquired iLike) or Lala, when a user searches for music-related queries like the name of a song, artist, or album. The results also include links to purchase full songs.

MySpace Introduces New Music Features

MySpace is making a big push to reposition itself in the social networking space by introducing a number of new music offerings. The social network has rolled out what it calls a new comprehensive MySpace Music Video experience, a MySpace Artist Dashboard, and the ability for users to now purchase music on iTunes. "Artist Dashboard and Music Videos are an important step forward in our mission to define the future of how content is socialized on the Web," said Owen Van Natta, CEO of MySpace.