MySpace says it has already streamed over a billion songs from MySpace Music, a joint venture with the major labels that launched just six days ago. On Wednesday, the site became the first place to hear the seventh Oasis album, Dig Out Your Soul (cover to the right) after the site landed the album’s exclusive debut.
So far, this album sounds like a return to form — or possibly better — putting to rest doubts that Oasis can make a relevant record in 2008. (As always, your mileage may vary.)
MySpace Music scored another exclusive for today: one of the four winners of Radiohead’s video contest, which asked contestants to upload their own videos for their song "Reckoner" to the Aniboom animation video site.
The original plan was to choose just one winner who would receive $10,000 to make a full-length video out of the basic concept they submitted to enter the contest. However, the submissions were deemed to be too good to pick just one winner, so Radiohead ponied up another $30,000 so that four winners could be chosen, each of whom received $10,000 to turn their concept into a full-length music video.
The first of these to surface is Clement Picon’s animation interpretation of "Reckoner," which appears to chart the progression of life on a little round planet from blades of grass to full-fledged cities and beyond:
Radiohead – Reckoner – by Clement Picon
