Facebook will properly unveil its new music section today. The social networking whatnot has been developing its artist proposition for a while, but it is now ready to launch properly.
The move is obviously Facebook's attempt to take on MySpace, the Rupert Murdoch owned social networking outfit still dominating in the artist social network page domain. As a result much of the MySpace Music functionality can be found on Facebook's artist facility, though the big difference is probably design - while MySpace gives artists quite a bit of freedom to design their page, Facebook will restrict artists within the standard Facebook template. While this won't give artists so much artistic freedom (and the marketing advantage that freedom can offer), the idea is that there will be less off the screen, wobbling, silly font, bright pink background pages, making the service more user friendly.
Among the high profile artists with Facebook pages at launch are Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne, Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Matchbox Twenty, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Decemberists and Wyclef Jean.