MySpace up-date

MySpace says it has nabbed "over 1 million" new registered users since it debuted a new music player on December 19. A MySpace spokesperson tells Billboard.biz that MySpace now has "over 25 million" registered users. MySpace attributes this growth to its "user-friendly" music player that accesses a catalog of "42 million songs" with the help of a "highly sophisticated recommendation engine and easy integration with Facebook." The music player could be part of it, but the use of Facebook for account creation and log-in appears to have helped, too. As TechCrunch.com noted Monday, app usage numbers available at AppData.com show that MySpace's Facebook app went from 900,000 monthly active users (MAU) on January 14 to 1.6 million MAU one month later. TechCrunch chalks this gain up to third-party integration with Facebook. Strong growth in MAU is also seen for Facebook apps by Pinterest, Yahoo!, Digg and Rockmelt since Timeline debuted last month.