Music Ally

Facebook is coming under fire from musicians, after several saw their driving licences accidentally posted on their artist pages on the social network. They have to upload photographic ID as part of the registration process to upload their own music to the site, but some have been surprised to see the scans then appear on (more…)

All the young people are spending today in an orgy of Facebook chatting (the site’s IM feature has just been turned on globally), but what about 35-55 year-olds? Apparently they’re a bit long in the tooth for Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. At least, that’s the pitch for GetBack Media, which is a new social network (more…)

The BBC has launched a new chart tracking the top 1,000 artists based on “buzz” across various online music, video and social networking sites – including Bebo, MySpace, Last .fm, iTunes, Google and YouTube. That’s more than 23 million comments, posts, plays and views going into a chart – called the Sound Index – that’s updated every six hours. You can (more…)

The investment just keeps on coming for Music 2.0 startups, despite the global financial crunch. The latest beneficiary is social music community mTraks, which has raised $550,000 from a group of private angel investors. The site lets bands set up their own profiles to promote themselves, and sell their music as (more…)