Both music services iLike and Lala have seen a massive growth since they have been included in Google’s Music Onebox service. Muztec checked the traffic statistics as represented by Alexa and found that both services are now almost both as big with MySpace owned iLike slightly being the biggest (see the detail – iLike being in red with Lala being in blue). However it’s Lala who has seen a massive growth of almost 900% overnight. iLike ‘only’ doubled its traffic since what could be called a very succesful joined venture with Google.

It remains to be seen of course if this will also translate in similar sales via both music services. Check the stats for Lala versus those for iLike.

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Yesterday we announced that Google’s newly launched Music Onebox would be offering (exclusive) songs (for free) from several ‘famous acts’ in order to promote their service. We now know what this ‘famous’ list will hold and it’s rather disappointing, unless the US crowd has such a meager taste? Here’s what artists Google came up with to give away free tracks: Tim McGraw, Phoenix, Major Lazer, Mos Def and Zee Avi. Who? Yes, them.

And there are also exclusives from:

• AFI (”Torch Song” – Demo From Crash Love Sessions)
• Arctic Monkeys (”Catapult”)
• Bon Jovi (”We Weren’t Born To Follow” – Acoustic Version, Recorded Live From Inside The Actor’s Studio)
• Dead by Sunrise (”Let Down” – Live)
• Green Day (”Know Your Enemy” – Live In Tokyo)
• Kings of Leon (”Crawl” – Miike Snow Remix)
• Lady Gaga (”Paparazzi” – David Aude Remix)
• Linkin Park (”New Divide” – Live)
• Luke Bryan (”Better Than My Heart”)
• Norah Jones (”Young Blood”)
• One Republic (”All The Right Moves” – Live)
• Paramore (”Where The Lines Overlap” – Acoustic Version)
• Snoop Dogg (”Upside Down” – Featuring Nipsey Hussle)
• The Fray (”Be The One” – Demo Version)
• Trey Songz (”LOL” – feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em (Logan deGaulle Remix))
• Weezer (”(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” – Live In Kansas City)
• Zac Brown Band (”Chicken Fried” – Live From Bonnaroo)

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Google’s new music search feature makes it easy to find music. Just search for an artist, album, song or even a few lyrics to get song previews from their partners MySpace via iLike, Lala, iTunes etc). The feature is rolling out slowly over the next few days via www.google.com/music. You can view a video made by Google explaining how the service works right after the jump!

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A interesting news tidbit reached us from the colleagues at Techcrunch. According to their sources Google’s newly launched Music Onebox (which lets users stream songs in their entirety for free) will be offering songs from several famous acts that can only be found through Google search. And some of those exclusive tracks will be given away for free.

Still according to the tech blog, over 20 artists are involved. Seeing that U2 has been involved in almost every promotional material, it’s pretty sure that at least Bono and C° will be included in this promotional action to boost the new music search service.

Expect it to launch in the next days, in the US only that is for the moment!

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