Sing Your Heart Out With MySpace Karaoke

As music takes over the Internet, so does karaoke apparently. Two years after Fox Interactive, a division of News Corp, which also owns MySpace, purchased kSolo.com, the social networking site unveiled its latest feature for all those talented users out there: karaoke.

The reason for the MySpace – karaoke combination has a perfectly good explanation: music is popular, karaoke is fun and in case you didn’t know it, it’s also social, because now you can show everyone how talented you are.

Tom Anderson, MySpace co-founder and president, told the Associated Press that “it’s not much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people,” and that’s what MySpace is all about.

So, if you have a microphone (and a voice), you’ve got what it takes! The new features offers lyrics to a wide range of songs, about 2,000 – 3,000, and a recording option.

Anderson also explained why it took so long to come up with it: “It was quite difficult. The rules and the licensing changed over time and became more complicated since MySpace is a global company. There’s different rights in different territories,” AP quoted him as saying.

kSolo didn’t do too well in the past two years, since it’s been purchased by Fox Interactive. It remains to be seen if the popularity of MySpace will do the trick…

America can start singing! (the feature is expected to become available in other countries as well, but an exact date remains unknown).