I've been saying for a long time that MySpace could still be successful in the right hands. While it is laughed at as a social network, people still remember it as a great place for music.
I don't think anyone has come close to replicating this since. I'd love to see someone take MySpace, wipe the slate 95% clean and make it deeply artist-centric. Hell, integrate it with Facebook. But make it the central hub for a musician to post news, videos, music, etc.
I thought that this would happen when the group including Justin Timberlake took it over, but so far no dice...
Soundcloud has the artist-centric part down really nicely, but it doesn't have much room for other music-related stuff like gigs, videos etc. I'm still undecided on whether that's a good thing or not, because what they do do, they do extremely well.
I don't think anyone has come close to replicating this since. I'd love to see someone take MySpace, wipe the slate 95% clean and make it deeply artist-centric. Hell, integrate it with Facebook. But make it the central hub for a musician to post news, videos, music, etc.
I thought that this would happen when the group including Justin Timberlake took it over, but so far no dice...