Two months after launching to a lot of fanfare, the MySpace Music site has finally found its first CEO. The project is a separate but connected company created with investment from major music labels. Courtney Holt has taken the CEO position; his previous employers include MTV, Interscope Records and Atlantic Records. CNet has covered the saga extensively and reports that MySpace Music will soon launch ticketing and merchandise efforts in addition to its music streaming.
For more brief details on Holt's background, check out his LinkedIn profile, which has yet to be updated to include his new position.
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Hopefully, he will have the desire to push the envelope with the technology that is already available. I’d love see Myspace Music actually innovate the music industry for real. First, as anyone that has seen CNN.com Live knows, internet video streams are like watching television now. Myspace Music has a real opportunity to become a global streaming version of MTV. I’d love to see a weekly live music program with an in-studio audience, a global streaming version of the Myspace Music Awards (similar to the MTV music awards but worldwide), and other content that will engage. What artist wouldn’t want to play to Myspace Music’s global audience of 160,000,000. Imagine debuting a new CD that way. And since it’s the web, the audience could push one button below the live video streams and have access to every song the artist ever did. It would be a live version of a point of purchase display that reaches 160,000,000. Now that’s what I call revolutionary.
Posted by: Tracy Hill | November 26, 2008 10:59 AM
Tracy, when you put it that way this sounds like a more interesting story than I thought!
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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November 26, 2008 11:00 AM