200k artists, incl majority of the top 500!

Today we announced that 200,000+ musicians, including over half of the top 500, are now using our Universal Artist Dashboard to reach their fans across all our syndication channels: Facebook, hi5, Bebo, iTunes Sidebar, etc.  See full release.

World-renowned acts like Radiohead, Linkin Park, 50 Cent, Keith Urban and Herbie Hancock, are among the tens of thousands of artists using our "Post Once, Publish Everywhere" platform to syndicate their songs, videos, photos, fan bulletins, concert information and exclusive content.

To show off some of the coolest things that artists have been doing using iLike, we put together a "greatest hits" video -- check it out :)

NEW: Song and Artist Tagging
This week, we finally enabled tagging for songs and artists inside iLike on Facebook.

Quote of the Week
“iLike is all about community and the ability to discover new artists, and music, through word of mouth. And the chance to share my music in order to expand that community is what it’s all about; not to mention the relationship can be more immediate and direct with my audience.”
--Keith Urban

Comments

[Marc Bodnick]

This is sweet guys. Congrats!

[Haleh]

Very very cool.

[krish]

Good to see this of website....

Great work..

[Dominic Sandifer]

great news, congrats...along with the new Iphone functionality.

[Brendan]

I think community is the key word for it, this will really breed it, it seems.Just downloaded this, and am pretty excited to connect with people i otherwise never would (and learn about new music from them), simply because we listen to the same artists.

Quick suggestion though: if there is a way that individual songs can be uploaded for a given artist on here, whose music is not available to sample, that'd be key. Cause, eg, i've got a couple songs i loaded onto Facebook, but they're not available to listen to a sample of, only to see that i like that song. (I imagine there'd be a way to recognize if a song being uploaded is authentically by an artist, perhaps via iTunes somehow.)

[EZPowell]

EZPowell music is a blend of a few things – including classic rock, blues, a bit jazzy, adult contemporary – and with good rhythm. People have said EZee sounds a bit like Dire Straits, Rob Thomas, even The Eagles, and many others. EZee doesn’t necessarily agree but is flattered 

And whoever said music is all about the journey because EZee is still on the journey. EZee is a musician with almost 30 years of experience of songwriting and playing instruments.

All songs are written, arranged and composed by EZPowell himself. But in recent months EZee is adding others - occasionally. Other people can help  Sometimes a lot!

When it comes to songwriting, "I love melody, and harmony sometimes even more. My lyrics are intentionally simplistic. I hope to strike a chord with many - an emotion - perhaps an image in your mind. Then you can make it your own, something about your own life. Most of my songs are silly love songs, of one form or another."

Hundreds of good reviews for EZPowell, from all around the world, are everywhere on the Internet including ezpowell.com, bedroomeyes.ezpowellband.com, amazon.com, cdbaby.com, Reviews are from radio stations, record labels, individuals, you name it.

[Alisha]

I think this is very good idea to connect people each together.