Aug 1, 2006 • 1 min read

Bebo launches music section Bebo Bands

Social network Bebo has launched Bebo Bands, a MySpace-style music section, with 25,000 artists already signed up, according to founder Michael Birch.

Well, not only are the kids dumping MySpace for rival community site Bebo, it now seems that the unsigned band community are too. Well, I'm probably exaggerating there, but Bebo have announce that they have now formally launched their own MySpace style music section - called Bebo Bands (as the laws of alliteration would demand) - and that 25,000 artists and bands have already signed up and uploaded music onto their Bebo pages.

Confirming the service was live, Bebo founder Michael Birch wrote on his blog: "It may not be 100 per cent ready but we thought we would throw it out there, get some feedback and evolve it. Expect to see many enhancements over the next few weeks."

Of course many bands will probably have both a Bebo and MySpace page, and it remains to be seen if Bebo can attract large numbers of signed bands as MySpace have done. But who knows? By the time September comes round perhaps MySpace Of The Day won't be returning - perhaps the axe will fall to make way for Bebo Recommended. We'll see I guess.

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