Facebook Launches 'Listen' Button On Music Pages

Facebook is launching a listen button on musical artists' pages, residing between the like and message buttons.

Facebook is launching a listen button on musical artists’ pages, residing between the like and message buttons. 

Clicking on the listen button directs you to the artist’s tracks on any of the social music-streaming services that a user has already signed up for.

The button is already live on the pages for Linkin Park, Justin Bieber and Slash.

Not to be confused with the buttons called “listen” that third-party developers have created for timeline via the open graph, Facebook’s launch of this new button supersedes numerous precursors of its own that the social network tested or at least proposed over the past year or two.

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