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Sony’s websites tenth music destination
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 27 August 2009
Sony Music’s network of websites has been rated as the tenth most popular music destination online.
I’m not 100% sure which of Sony’s websites this statement includes, they all seem pretty rubbish to me, and I never go to the UK ones because I have a rule of not visiting websites where music plays without user permission. And these stats are for June, so it’s possible the major’s web traffic received what I believe is known in the trade as a ‘Jacko boost’, the late king of pop being famously signed to Sony’s Epic label. But still, well done Sony for drawing 20 million unique users to their online operation in June, and scoring a total of 33 million visits (according to the comScore Media Metrix).
The majors, of course, have long had ambitions to have direct relationships with music fans through their own web portals rather than via other music sites, or management-controlled artist sites, which is why it’s a shame most of their websites are rubbish.
