Music artists and their managers can find harmony with Facebook and other analytics by using Musicmetric Pro, a new release from Semetric.

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Music video site Vevo has one year left on its agreement with YouTube, but that reportedly hasn’t stopped Facebook from sniffing around.

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We asked Wade Gerten, chief executive officer of 8thBridge, about its ticketing application developed in partnership with Ticketmaster for timeline. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook announced plans to crank up the music by allowing users to listen to songs their friends are listening to, saying that it began rolling out the Listen With button today and will complete the task over the next few weeks.

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What a bummer for those of us who’ve gotten hooked on Spotify in the U.S.: The company is limiting the free version of its music streaming service to a six-month period.

People who’ve had Spotify accounts since the service became available in the U.S. can only have the free version for just ten hours per month, and that’s with advertising and no more than five replays of any single song per month, according to The Verge.  

New users who sign up now would still get six months of the unlimited free version, which plays an advertisment around once every half dozen songs.

The ads disappear on the premium version of Spotify, which starts at $4.99 a month and goes up to $9.99 a month with the ability to download playlists to mobile devices.

You can try the latter version for a month before having to cough up the $9.99 a month.

This pricing plan brings Spotify U.S. to the same model employed in Europe, where the service ranks number one among online music streaming.

This implies that the company’s growth trajectory in America resembles what Spotify has enjoyed elsewhere.

According to our brilliant peer site, AppData, Spotify has 4.3 million daily active users and 12.5 million on a monthly basis, but those are global figures. The numbers also don’t break out paying subscribers versus free users.

We plan to update this post such data, once found, but in the mean time, readers, perhaps you could help us fill in some gaps: Would you — or do you already — pay for a streaming music service connected to the social network?

Have you checked out the music section on the timeline yet?

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Spotify is incorporating the Facebook philosophy of using free, open-source applications in an effort to become a music platform in its own right.

Evolver.fm reported that Spotify Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek said in a blog entry that the apps will be coded in HTML5, and they will be part of the Spotify app, so users won’t be required to install any other software.

He said that developers can build apps via a JavaScript application programming interface API.

Ek added that users can access these apps whether or not they are Spotify subscribers, according to Evolver.fm, and he said that for now, developer partners do not share in revenue.

He also said many of the apps were in response to user requests, and it made more sense to outsource those features to third-party developers.

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner also appeared at today’s press conference in New York, where Ek described the music magazine’s version of the Spotify App as including “editorial, concert tickets, lyrics, and many, many more experiences … just the perfect companion to read about the stuff you want to hear as you hear it.”

Wenner said the online magazine’s version of the app will soon add playlists.

Spotify Apps have already been created by Last.fm, We Are Hunted, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Songkick, TuneWiki, Dagbladet, Soundrop, Top10, Billboard, Fuse, Gaffa, ShareMyPlaylists, Tunigo, and MoodAgent.

The TuneWiki app displays the lyrics to songs users are listening to, and the Songkick app offers information on whether artists currently being played are performing anywhere in users’ areas, including ticket purchasing, if applicable.

Readers, how are you listening to music these days, and how have your habits changed with technological advancements?

Facebook’s music player and Discography apps, the last traces of the long-rumored but never-launched music dashboard, went silent as of yesterday.

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Videos, music, and pictures from Facebook and other sources can now be added to playlists for the iPhone, Android smartphones, and other devices that use Airplay and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance), following the release of Eye-C Taglists.

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This one time … on Facebook … our band put up a page using Bandcamp.

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