April 9th, 2010
MySpace Introducing…
For the third installment of MySpace’s Introducing program the four artists selected are Taio Cruz, AM Taxi, Delphic and Janelle Monae. “Introducing…” is a MySpace initiative to present new artists to the social network’s online music community. Past artists participating in the program include NeverShoutNever and Jason Derulo, both of whom went on to score top 25 hits.
It’s unclear how the artists are selected for the program but with 3 of 4 artists in this showcase having over a million profile views and Taio Cruz riding the smash radio hit “Heartbreaker ft. Ludacris,” it seems like they are selecting artists with at least a moderate level of success. In looking at the above graph of Views to their MySpace and Wikipedia pages you can see that Delphic and Janelle Monae saw a jump in activity in January and that Taio Cruz has seen sustained attention since last fall when his album, Rokstarr, was released in the UK. As you can see from the chart below he’s really started to pick up steam around the re-release of the album in the US last month (March 10, 2010).
