It’s taken more than a year since the Septemeber ‘08 US launch, but MySpace Music is finally live in the UK and with the same features already available in the US, Australia and New Zealand, including free, unlimited streaming, DRM-free purchases through iTunes and artist access to MySpace Music analytics.…

As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup Imeem are still underway with issues including how much staff would make the move (possibly engineering and sales), whether cofounder and CEO Dalton Caldwell would come along a la iLike’s Partovi brothers—now execs with MySpace, possible earnouts…

At our recent EconMusic conference in LA, our co-editor and EVP Staci D. Kramer interviewed MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) Music President Courtney Holt about the company’s business strategies, competition with other free services and much more. Watch the Q&A embedded after the jump and check out the writeup from Tameka Kee.…

Just 11 days in to the job and new MySpace Music president Courtney Holt was thrown in at the deep end, at MidemNet in Cannes, to talk about the venture heralded as another music-biz savior. Asked on stage how he felt about Facebook’s faltering music store efforts, Holt joked “It’s…

One of the most over-rated and over-hyped jobs in the digital music industry has finally been filled: After months of drib-drab leaks (you would have thought negotiating the contract of the MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) Music head was more complex and important than renewing the contract for Peter Chernin), MTV executive…

Now you can listen to indie songs before Steve Jobs puts them in a commercial. MySpace Music has signed a deal with digital music distributor IODA that will see over a million indie tracks on the social net’s site, LAT reports. Full terms of the deal were not disclosed, though…

You’re reading it here first ... That Hulu-like private-equity set-up for the much-hyped MySpace Music isn’t on the front burner and may not ever happen, according to sources familiar with the situation. There are several reasons that boil down to this: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and MySpace don’t see the…

I got WebEx’d. I saw a well-practiced demo of the new MySpace Music last night, and fell under the impression that the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) JV with the labels was a simple, straightforward music destination: You search out a song, you add it to your playlist and you listen…

MySpace Music (http://www.myspace.com/music) won’t be live for a few hours yet, but I just got off the phone with Steve Pearman, SVP-Product Strategy, who took me through a WebEx demo of the site. Of course, I’m aware that these demos are only of limited value, and don’t hit on the…

Update: As of about midnight on the west coast, the site is live. We’ll have reactions and a full review later this morning, after we’ve taken a closer look. Original Post: MySpace’s long-awaited music store is going live tonight at 9:00 PM PT/12:00 AM ET. EMI, the last major holdout…

Hope springs eternal in music, and it seems, in the music industry as well. Jean Bernard Levy, the CEO of Vivendi (EPA: VIV) (which owns the biggest label Universal Music Group), told FT that he sees a new age of revenue growth, especially with digital and mobile sales. He cites…

MySpace Music, which was originally expected to launch Monday, is now pushed to later in the week, and other drib drabs about it are leaking out. We had some details earlier on Friday. —New PE Funding?: Very much like Hulu. the other digital video JV, MySpace Music, which has investments…

Updated below: Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). subsidiary has been setting expectations on the music service sky-high with teasers, other established competitors like Imeem have been out…