This is a really good reason not to use Facebook Places! Singer-songwriter James Blunt is set to be the first major artist in the U.K. to embrace Facebook Places.
Facebook Places allows users to publish their current locations on the site via their mobile. Blunt needs a little extra press just before his third album release “Some Kind Of Trouble”, which is due out November 8.
Ok Go has been receiving a huge amount of press over the last three months and this week is no different. OK Go won a Webby award for their online videos and now they are running a Facebook competition with their fans. Their fans are being encouraged to share one of their videos and whoever gets the most comments on their wall wins an engraved iPad.
Its great to see OK Go coming up with some interesting promotional ideas and trying to get the fans to help them promote their music.
Only days after Spotify had a major upgrade which included a lot of social and sharing features, We7 has now announced some new sharing features of their own.
We7 is still yet to make an official announcement, but it seems that users can now connect to their Facebook account to post details while also scrobbling tracks to Last.fm.
Luxembourg’s biggest media star, Spotify has admitted a new investor to the fold, at least according to TechCrunch. Sean Parker was one of the founders of both Napster and Facebook, and would be Spotify’s first and only US investor. If the rumour is true, then it would not only help Spotify’s cash situation (always helpful), but also give them the inside track on running a music service in the States, and might give an indication that the launch of Spotify in the US is approaching.
RouteNote now has a page live on Facebook. On the facebook page we are planning on releasing videos, photos, wallpapers and more. If you want to stay up-to-date about which artists are using RouteNote then make sure you sign up to become a fan on our Facebook page.
Here are the top music applications on Facebook courtesy of a neat analytics tool created by AllFacebook.com.
| Name | DAU | MAU | Daily Growth | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  |
iLike | 411,606 | 6,148,212 | 1.44 |
| 2. |  |
YouTube Video Box | 73,654 | 1,255,992 | 1.73 |
| 3. |  |
YouTube Box | 27,783 | 606,932 | 1.36 |
| 4. |  |
My Band | 24,914 | 411,484 | 1.59 |
| 5. |  |
Music Player | 22,929 | 396,152 | 1.31 |
| 6. |  |
Profile Song | 24,967 | 331,509 | 1.28 |
| 7. |  |
Songs | 12,626 | 277,194 | 1.80 |
| 8. |  |
Blood Lust | 20,746 | 155,571 | -1.67 |
| 9. |  |
My Music | 8,812 | 155,499 | 1.14 |
| 10. |  |
iLike this Artist | 6,573 | 147,237 | 1.93 |
| 11. |  |
ReverbNation | 7,022 | 132,132 | 1.44 |
| 12. |  |
imeem | 5,019 | 93,292 | 1.26 |
Over at MusicAlly they have put together a great list of the top 20 bands on Facebook according to their popularity. 20 most popular music artist fan pages from the chart though, and they are (with number of fans):
1. Rihanna (1.52 million)
2. Coldplay (1.49 million)
3. Lil Wayne (1.34 million)
4. Linkin Park (1.33 million)
5. Chris Brown (1.3 million)
6. Metallica (1.22 million)
7. Pink Floyd (1.16 million)
8. Bob Marley (1.13 million)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers (1.12 million)
10. Justin Timberlake (1.05 million)
11. AC/DC (997,000)
12. Daft Punk (912,000)
13. Beyonce (906,000)
14. Queen (900,000)
15. Evanescence (873,000)
16. Jonas Brothers (843,000)
17. Radiohead (793,000)
18. Kanye West (792,000)
19. Katy Perry (791,000)
20. Akon (753,000)
It has been reported over at Paidcontent that music startup and recommendation service iLike is on the block for sale. Currently there are several companies interested in iLike, such as existing stakeholder Ticketmaster and online music pioneer RealNetworks.
iLike has already raised about $16 million in funding since its launch in 2006. Additionally, in the mix to purchase iLike is Facebook, who recently got nocked back to purchase Twitter. iLike currently has one of the most popular Facebook apps, attracting about 5.4 million active users per month, but a pure stock play is likely to go over as well as it did with Twitter.
RouteNote now has a Facebook group! The RouteNote Facebook group will be showcasing some of the best bands on the sites as well as showing picture and videos. On the Facebook group we will be focusing on discussions about what you would like to see on RouteNote. Therefore, if you have any thoughts about what features we should have, who we should partner with and even if you think our site is charging too much of a cut. Then please get in touch via our Facebook group.
