MySpace is reporting that mere days after the launch of its new major label-supported MySpace Music, it reached more than a billion songs streamed.
"We can confirm that we hit a milestone of one billion music streams only a few days after launching the new product," the company said in a statement. "More importantly, we are still compiling our metrics on engagement and unique users which will tell a much richer story on how positively the community is responding to the new music experience. We're excited to share more information and data as soon as it's available."
It remains unclear if those numbers were similar to the numbers at MySpace as a whole or not, but a billion is still a pretty huge number. But the number of streamed songs is probably less important than whether or not people are clicking on the ads on the service, which provide it with most of if its projected income. That information is yet to be released. [CNet]
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I know someone who works for the page that's linked below.
http://www.songnumbers.com/christinamilian.php
Apparently, these guys and MySpace Music are launching some sort of mobile, American Idol type of promotion.
Artists will be able to create phone numbers where their fans can call in and listen to music, share it, buy it, etc.
The first artist they have planned this with (she already has a number in the page above) is Christina Milian.
It's going to be all ad-supported and it's supposed to be billed or taglined:
"Who will be the first mobile superstar?"
Also, it will be the largest push MySpace Music has ever done...maybe it's part of the overall plan?
Like those billboards that were scooped and to be put up in LA and NYC?
The number on the page I linked will be on Christina's page in something like 48 hours, with more artists coming...