How the Music Industry uses Social Networking Sites

After reading 'The Original Social Media Rockstar' discussing how singer Lily Allen's has used Social Networking Sites like MySpace to promote her music and interact with her fan, I instantly thought of record-artist Sean Kingston who was discovered off the same Social Networking Site, MySpace.

A extract from Sean Kingston's wikipedia telling the world how he was discovered through MySpace

Sean Kingston said "MySpace changed his life" and even though the MySpace era's are over, he still uses it to communicate with his fans and share with them his latest works. The video below discusses how he was discovered and the importance of MySpace to him.

SEAN KINGSTON'S MYSPACE STORY

SEAN KINGSTON | Myspace Music Videos

FaceBook has become a main platform where music artist can promote their latest work and communicate with their fans! Facebook continues it’s dominance in the social network and it's no wonder why artist uses FaceBook to promote their work its because so many people are using it! 

Rihanna's Facebook page and she has over 60million likes, so who ever 'likes' her can get updates on her and her latest music

In today's generation, technology is everything and most people our age are using Smartphones and the internet everyday. So promoting our work on social networking sites and putting it there can gives us feedback and tell us what other people think! So in the future I will definitely post my music video on FaceBook for people my age too see!