Meliza Solan, star of the hit Vator.tv news podcast “What Am I
Missy”
released an episode
talking all about Watunes.com
, against the ever talked about (on Vator at
least) Myspace Music, and how
these two companies compare.

Although Watunes is small, not new (founded in 2006),
here is their first
blog post on how Watunes would operate
, as opposed to that of Myspace
Music, which
launched September 200
8,
but has been supported by a very successful “personal social
network”, i.e Myspace.com, there are very easy similarities that all the contributors at Vator.tv have agreed on.

Myspace Music
stands for the up and coming artist or band, who want exposure to some major
record labels for a quick record contract, and a nice paycheck, but as Chris Caceres points out there
are an evergrowing “annoying
plethora of artists reaching out
and trying to connect with random users on
the site based on their ‘musical interests”, whereas Watunes stands for
the unified and supportive approach of assisting the up and coming artist or
group with getting anywhere near the big time and not becoming the
“profile zone”, by providing tools to get onto iTunes, EMusic and
Rhapsody, and for one I believe we talk less about how Watunes is the
“local club” and more about how the company is becoming part of the
new music distribution elite moving forward in the next few years.

See, we talk about how the iTunes store became so successful, and yes we
think of things such as the iPod music devices backing it’s launch, the fact
there was a wide variety of content at great prices, but one thing that
disconnects a large majority of that audience looking for the independent music
is the overwhelming music label control, and it’s certainly become the same
with Myspace.com, it’s not the place I would ever go to for new upcoming bands
and musicians, you see these mentions from bands in print and online interviews
at places like NME.com of their Myspace profile, but do
these artists truly see the gap that is emerging between being on just the
Myspace platform, to being within the iTunes, Emusic and Rhapsody stores
themselves.

This is why Watunes is becoming much bigger in itself, we see the
independent musician’s barrier broken down way further then we could have ever
have foreseen years ago, it’s combination of commitment and support should give
every independent musician no reason to not try them, of course in the article
posted recently by  Chris Caceres of Vator, in which
he reveals a sneak
peak at Watunes new features
, we see a dynamic, and resourceful web
platform is beginning to emerge, this is something I believe becoming far more
outspoken then anything Myspace has accomplished.

The one question being, how does WaTunes turn out in the long run if it
stays as the “local club”, well for one thing we can be certain you
will get the most enriching, filtered and enjoyable experience with new music
on Watunes when you engage in a small, engaged environment, whereas with
Myspace Music you are trying to be the one who shouts the loudest to be heard
ahead of the other Myspace band profiles, but with the further progression of
implementing a higher level of collaboration in the independent music space
online, will this mean that Myspace Music will try to become more niche and
approachable like Watunes to independent artists, or does Watunes consider the
fact it may need to accelerate growth in some respects to enable the platform
to become more open and involved for bands to become much more in the long run.

Do Watunes believe in longterm or mediumterm success of their artists? How
could they approach the way they can encourage independent artists to in part
look at the “local club” as the worldwide stage, but keeping it
contained perhaps to a more filtered and organized group of fans and followers,
and why is it that iTunes and Myspace have perhaps become so mainstream and
disconnected from where they stared, that they cannot see how Watunes is
strolling right by them and becoming the go-to place for people to use, and
benefit greatly from in the long term.

 

 Image Source/Blog Post Link:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6sGE90ZNoiM/SfNXukpaq9I/AAAAAAAAAFk/UM8g–pFd-I/s1600-h/watunes_vs_myspace.png

http://watunes2.blogspot.com/2009/04/watunes-vs-myspace-music.html

 

 

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