According to allthingsd.com Microsoft’s MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace about using the social networking site’s music service, MySpace Music, to help power music offerings on Microsoft’s portal. Not all that unlogical, MSN Music scores rather bad in terms of traffic, while MySpace Music is the only part of the former MySpace kingdom doing rather well. (Just to give you an idea, Comscore reported the following numbers for April: MySpace Music had 27.4 million unique monthly visitors while MSN Music had just 7.4 million monthly users.) Instead of reinventing the music wheel, Microsoft would prefer going hand in hand with News Corp.
It’s no coincidence that MySpace recently bought social music service iLike to expand its distribution all over the Web, including on (rivaling) social platforms but also via Google’s newest music search service. Next would be Microsoft’s MSN. MySpace is not a sinking ship after all… it would be without iLike though.
