MySpace Records

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MySpace Records
Parent company MySpace (News Corporation)
Founded 2005
Founder Tom Anderson
Distributing label Interscope Records (U.S.)
Genre Various
Country of origin United States
Location Beverly Hills, California, USA
Official website [1]

MySpace Records is a record label started in 2005 to sign artists who appear on the social networking site MySpace. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of MySpace and parent News Corporation. Distribution is contracted to Universal Music Group's Fontana Distribution, with manufacturing and external marketing by Universal's Interscope Records. [1]

MySpace Records operates as a record label located in Beverly Hills, California. The President is MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson and the A&R head is Jon Pikus, former A&R representative of Columbia Records, operating from Beverly Hills. The General Manager is J. Scavo, who was recently the Executive Director, Marketing & Artist Development at Hollywood Records, a subsidiary of Disney.


In 2008 MySpace Records stepped into the forefront of the new Music Industry with the ad supported free album release of Pennywise's 9th album, Reason To Believe. Through a partnership with corporate sponsor Textango, for 2 weeks MySpace Records provided fans with a free download of the album in 320 kbit/s DRM-free MP3s, in exchange for adding the sponsor as a friend on MySpace.com. [2]


Contents

[edit] MySpace Artists

[edit] Compilations

[edit] MySpace Records: Volume 1

  1. AFI — "Rabbits are Roadkill on Rt. 37"
  2. New Year's Day — "Ready, Aim, Misfire"
  3. Socratic — "Lunch for the Sky"
  4. The Click Five — "Angel to You"
  5. Say Anything — "Every Man Has a Molly"
  6. Fall Out Boy — "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (Acoustic)"
  7. Dashboard Confessional — "Hands Down"
  8. Waking Ashland — "I Am for You"
  9. Weezer — "We Are All on Drugs"
  10. Hollywood Undead — "No. 5"
  11. Against Me! — "Don't Lose Touch"
  12. Tila Tequila — "Straight Up"
  13. The All-American Rejects — "Stab My Back"
  14. The Summer Obsession — "Melt the Sugar"
  15. Plain White T's — "Take Me Away"
  16. Copeland — "Pin Your Wings"
  17. Jupiter Sunrise — "Arthur Nix"

[edit] MySpace Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins

  1. Mayonnaise - The Academy Is...
  2. Thirty-Three - The New Amsterdams
  3. Tonight, Tonight - Panic! at The Disco
  4. I Am One - (+44)
  5. 1979 - Young Love
  6. Today - Ben Kweller
  7. Ava Adore - Test Your Reflex
  8. Rocket - The Bravery
  9. Rhinoceros - Gliss
  10. Signal To Noise - The Most Dangerous Race

[edit] B-Sides

  1. Bullet With Butterfly Wings(From Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)- Hawthorne Heights [1]
  2. Cherub Rock (From Siamese Dream)- Sick Puppies [2]

The B-sides can be heard on the bands' MySpace page

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Morris, Chris (2005-11-03). MySpace.com Creates Own Label. Hollywood Reporter/Billboard. VNU eMedia. Retrieved on 2006-07-09.
  2. ^ Aune, Sean (2008-03-23). New Pennywise Album is Free for Two Weeks on MySpace. Mashable. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.

[edit] External links