Your hobby’s, favourite books, music and your personal photo’s. Profile sites are a huge hype on the internet. After Facebook, Msn Space, and the popular website Hyves, MySpace has developed into the platform for upcoming bands.
It started out as a very common profile site; members would make their own profile including blogs, photo’s and forums. They could make friends and send each other messages. Just like any other site of its kind. But the thing about MySpace was that you could put your own recorded songs on it, it turned MySpace into a very know site, especially for music lovers.
This offered the outcome for young, upcoming bands and musicians, because a profile site is the way to network. Members who shared the same taste in music could become friends and send each other the music that they liked and also exchange useful suggestions.
The goal of beginning musicians was that members would pick up their songs, so the musicians could enjoy their fifteen minutes of fame. Or even better, a little more than those few minutes.
Many bands started to get more famous by the day because of MySpace. A good example are the British Arctic Monkeys; four teens from Sheffield who created a site for fans to visit on MySpace. Because of this, their own songs got hugely popular, even so that their first official single already got out, and the Arctic monkeys played on stages which were fully sold-out. And all this before they even got signed in on a record label.
Record companies claim that they don’t look at the charts anymore to tell them whether the band is a hit or not, they look at how many friends a band has on MySpace to make that conclusion. That’s understandable with at least 72 million own members, and 14 million visitors a day!
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