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Facebook Music Rocks! Move over MySpace. Facebook is jamming to the core of your audience and DNA. Facebook Pages for musicians have existed since pages went live. But what is new is the main music page that shows a lot of the features that are available on facebook pages for music artists.

What I find interesting is that facebook is making a solid play at the core of MySpace; which is music. While it is still a bit utilitarian looking by myspace standards; I like it. I can listen to songs from the artisits, a discography catalog of all of their album/CD releases, watch videos, see photos, upload fan photos, become a fan, etc. This is cool stuff.

Only a matter of time before ticketmaster or ticketsnow becomes the gateway to purchase tickets to shows right through facebook. I can envision picking out my seats live and buying them instantly.

Image how bands and music promoters could run contests on these pages and encourage participation with rewards like VIP passes, etc. I can also see a day (tomorrow or very soon) where apps could actually become part of the consumption/participation model in conjunction with these pages.

I can also envision ways that these pages could have apps embedded and they could find interesting ways to reward & communicate with fans with video blasts, messages, etc. I could also imagine fans being able to have pre-release videos sent right to their cell phones/email.

Check out Facebook Music Pages and you can see an index of the major artists that have pages as well as the functionality that is available.

Here are a few of my favorite facebook music pages:
Bare Naked Ladies
Matchbox Twenty
Shiny Toy Guns

Note to whoever runs the Britney Spears music page: your videos do not work.

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