Whether you are a musician looking to share your songs or a music lover looking for music or music videos, MySpace has your ticket—and the ticket of millions of people across the globe.  With over 100 million members, MySpace has become the fourth most popular English-language website and the third most popular website in the United States, surpassing even Google and ebay.  Nearly 250,000 new members join the social networking site every day.

The MySpace Music Page features a number of music links for both musicians and music lovers.  You need not be a member of MySpace to view the comedy content.  There is a Featured Artist section, which lists the hot artists based on genre.  Links to the featured musicians’ personal profile pages allows you to listen to their music and learn about the bands.  The MySpace Exclusives section keys users in to upcoming music events, tours, or releases.  A Featured Video section links to a new music video and artist profile page.  MySpace On Tour highlights upcoming tours, dates, and venues of featured artists.  The Pick of the Week, sponsored by Filter Magazine, reviews new releases and offers recommendations for music listeners.  MySpace also allows your to search and listen to top bands by searching via music genre.

MySpace has been a critical tool in the progression of many amateur bands.  Membership to MySpace is necessary if you are a musician wanted to post your music for others to listen to on your MySpace personal profile.  With its wide viewership, MySpace can offer musicians a significant amount of publicity.  A number of artists, like the English band Arctic Monkeys and pop artist Lily Allen, owe some of their success to the publicity generated by MySpace.

A number of other musicians, however, have found issue with MySpace’s terms of agreement.  Up until June 2006, the fine print within the MySpace’s user agreement states: “You hereby grant to MySpace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services”.  As this agreement is essentially made between the artist and Rupert Murdoch’s media giant News Corporation, many musicians, including songwriter Billy Bragg, were rightly concerned.  Bragg actually pulled his songs from the website in protest.  In repsonse to the concern raised by musicians, MySpace changed their user agreement to assure artists that the company does not claim any ownership of the text, files, photos, video, sounds, musical works, or any other materials posted to MySpace.  Hopefully, this amendment will reassure artists as to the safety of their material on MySpace so that thousands of users can continue to enjoy it.

If you are a musician looking to share your music with others, connect with other musicians, or be discovered by an audience that could top 100 million people, MySpace Music is the place for you.  If you are a music lover looking to discover up and coming artists, find upcoming music events in your neighborhood, or connect with the musicians who make some of your favorite tunes, MySpace music is also the place for you.

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It is relatively easy to add music to your web page at MySpace. If you are a member of MySpace and like a piece of music featured at another site, you can see if that particular artist gives permission for other members to use the music. Go to online to see what music is available to listen to on MySpace pages. If a given artist is willing to give permission then there will be a button that is labeled “Add” next to the specific song you are interested in. You need to log into your MySpace account and then click on the given link and then the piece of music will automatically be added to the background of your MySpace web page. It is only possible to add one song at a time to your web page, however, it is possible to change the music you have as often as you care to. If there is already one piece of music at your webpage and you decided to add another, the second song will by default replace the first song.

In order to make a piece of music play on your MySpace web page, first you will need to log in to your profile page and then seek out the link for “Music” that can be found at the top of the screen of the page. The music link can be found nestled between the classifieds and the videos. Next clink on the link for “Music” and this will take you to the “MySpace Music” area. The music spot at MySpace makes it possible to look around the site for bands that you enjoy listening to or you can search for new talents that you have yet to discover. There is also a “search” feature at MySpace that allows you to search by specific band members and band names as well as influences according to music and even a “sounds like” category. There are even ways to narrow down your musical search at MySpace to a particular genre or music such as rock, country or alternative or to look for certain bands that hail from a particular area of the world.

Once you have located a band that interests you, click the page they can be found on and what will then show up is a list of their songs, which you can choose to listen to for your own enjoyment. As well you can follow along with the lyrics of each song and even rate them if you so choose to. If you want to add a song of your choice to your MySpace profile then click on the “add” button. You will be prompted by MySpace if this is indeed the song you want and from there you click on “Add Song to Profile” and it is done. Once this is completed you can then log in to your MySpace profile and the background music will be the song you chose. It is as simple as that!

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