Scott,

I did some research on this. I counted every major label artist on the roster at all 4 majors. It came to well under 1000 artists and that included a large percentage that were classical artists and hardly popular on MySpace. In addition, I checked out a dozen mid level artists like Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel etc. and NONE of them had pages on MySpace Music. (A few had fan pages, but with no music available). So sure, NIN is very popular. So are some of the other hottest acts out today no question. But I put that number at around 200 total major artists with a page and significant stats. That's compared to 4,999,800 indie artists with pages that make up the balance. If MySpace music only had those 200 popular artists, or even the entire 1000 artists from all the majors, it wouldn't be in position to negotiate any types of deals with anyone, nor would it have significant ad revenue. Our indie/unsigned/grassroots community has MADE MySpace Music what it is. And we have ZERO voice in any of this. I find that egregious and bad on all fronts. Do you REALLY think we're going to get a fair shake with the majors in ownership? Hardly. They've never demonstrated fair play in the past. With Payola on radio and in music stores and with deals at popular venues etc. they've never given fairness to our community. And this won't be any different.

Brian

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