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Report: MSN Seeks Duet With MySpace Music

BoomTown has the exclusive on a potential tie-up between Microsoft's MSN and MySpace, which involves the social network's music service, MySpace Music, powering the Web portal's music offerings. Sources at both companies caution that the talks are still early, but Microsoft execs are apparently interested in building early buzz around the partnership. Why? Because MSN Music consistently ranks substantially lower than other big online music properties in terms of traffic, while MySpace Music is always near the top," BoomTown explains. What's more, sources say Microsoft doesn't think it can do as good a job as MySpace in the music game.

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