For whatever the reason, I never bothered to become a member of MySpace.  Last week, I had to visit MySpace to try the Gun’N Roses‘ new album Chinese Democracy.  Salute to MySpace Music for pulling off such an awesome release of the GNR album. Kudos to the marketing folks (both the label and MySpace); this marks the beginning of myspace’s digital-reach-power. Either MySpace Music is run by extremely smart folks or ridiculously lucky (details to follow later).

Apparently loads of hardcore GNR fans visited MySpace to listen Chinese democracy. The title song was streamed more than 2 million times within few days, an amazing feat.

I was able to listen to the tracks without registering at myspace. What are they thinking? I wouldn’t mind registering in order to listen newly released tracks. MySpace should think about forcing some sort of criteria (i.e., set limits on the number of listened songs, etc) to increase registration. However, they should be careful and not attempt this with unknown and indie artists.