Social Networking Meets Music Sites
Written by Jenna Claffey (contact - e-mail) -- August 10th, 2007 | Recommend ThisSocial networking has continued to expand its empire, and music sites have become its latest victims. From January to June of 2007, the sites where listeners are able to listen to music and interact with other listeners for minimal or no cost, such as projectplaylist.com and rhapsody.com, have had a noticeable increase of unique visitors over sites where there is little interaction with other listeners, such as itunes.com and napster.com.
The site with the most traffic in 2007 is projectplaylist.com, which has such features as creating your own profile, creating your own playlist, sharing playlists with friends, blogging. It also offers the option of posting your playlist on several social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, etc. Rhapsody.com, another site that has been gaining significant ground over the year, allows members to personalize updates and features, and visitors can view other listeners’ playlists and watch music videos for free.
In contrast, iTunes.com, musicmatch.com, and napster.com have all dropped in UVs since January. These are all pay sites, except for free.napster.com, which offers only free music. However, the extent to how much listeners can personalize their players and adapt it so others can easily view their music is limited. Will these sites be able to keep up with the growing personalization fad? Stay tuned…
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August 8th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Qloud has also introduced a slick social music site. However, they are tiny compared to these players.
August 10th, 2007 at 9:58 am
This is the most informative blog post I’ve ever read in my life. This Jenna Claffey is one talented researcher and writer.
August 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
does peekamo have this music feature?
August 12th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Despite iTunes software not being in the 21st century, Apple still benefits from ProjectPlaylist.com’s success through an affiliate relationship — all the songs listed on ProjectPlaylist have iTunes hooks in them. So Apple’s happy either way.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Please, use thicker lines on the graphics or different simbos (dashed, triangles, etc). I barely can distinguish Itunes from Rapsody.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Great information and definitely valuable, but I wouldn’t classify it as the most informative. What about future potential of Project Play List? What is the publicized vision of the other sites? There is a lot more information that could be presented but the focus of the blog seems to be short concise consumer interested information to lure users to the site – which it is successful at doing.
Again, great information.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I gotta say out of the other ones i read i like this one the most…not sure where Siera night tide is going with all that other stuff, how can you predict the future impact of Project Play List? And Goat take it easy buddy its an online blog about music not a dating service…
September 1st, 2007 at 3:23 am
googd job
keep it up
i too feel Project Play List is is catching up with its number of users
definately its increasing day by day
September 11th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Great information.