Myspace! Who does that anymore? Honestly? Anyone whose anyone is on Facebook nowadays, and Facebook is getting more Myspace-ish everyday with the addition of Applications, or “Apps”.  Unfortunetly, Facebook can’t match the marketing functionality that Myspace possesses.

But it’s getting there, partially, thanks to the apps.  iLike is one of the most used apps on Facebook, and can be manipulated to get your band on your fan’s profiles.

If you go to the iLike site it’s not giving you much help as to how you can get your band on the app, it only tells you how to get your music on the site itself.  The explanation on the site is sort of complicated in itself, and doesn’t give a real answer, but it tells you to upload your songs to GarageBand, or have fans do some stuff with the iLike software, which, if you can pull off, have a fan base of Kiss Army proportions.

But GarageBand is the way to go.  It’s iLike’s sister site, all it takes is you to upload a few songs.

To be honest, I was wary that bands, especailly ones with smaller followings wouldn’t show up.  So I did myself a case study.

First, a punk band named *Counterpunch*.  *Counterpunch* was one of the most listened to punk bands on the site and, viola, they’re on the iLike app.  But what about bands withs significantly smaller followings?  I dove deep into GarageBand.com’s library to pull out a band by the name of Holly’s back from Vancouver, British Columbia.

To my surprise, they were there, along with all three of their songs.

But GarageBand has been around a long time (if you read my post about mp3.com, then you’ll know what I’m talking about), and they’ve been running contests since 2001.  But, again, to my surpise, the Swedish power-pop band, and winners of GarageBand’s June 2001 contest, Caser are on iLike too.

Facebook has every bit the marketing power Myspace does, you just have to learn how to use it.  More and more people are signing up for Facebook every day, and in order to stay on the cutting edge of marketing your band, you have to use every tool at your disposal, and with iLike/GarageBand, you get your music up on two sites at once.