iLike has just announced a new service for musicians that enables them to create a band page that is displayed on both the iLike website as well as Facebook. According to the iLike artist services page, iLike currently has over 11 million users and is growing at over 500,000 users a month. iLike argues that their new service makes it easier to gain fans than on MySpace. That’s a pretty bold statement given that music is one of MySpace’s most used features.

This new service competes directly with Reverb Nation’s My Band application. The MyBand application has been growing steadily over the past few months and it continues to grow. Currently they have close to 5,000 active daily users. While the new service requires you to register at the iLike website, this tool appears to be extremely valuable for musicians. As has been happening over the past few years on the open web, competition for independent musicians on Facebook is going to continue to grow rapidly.

Perhaps Facebook will join the competition if my sources are correct. It will be interesting to watch this all pan out. If you are an independent musician or help musicians promote themselves, go check out the new iLike artist services.