Alicia Keys Streams New Album On Facebook

Alicia Keys fans will have another reason to compulsively check her Facebook fan page today: Keys is releasing her new album The Element of Freedom exclusively through the world's largest social network. Fans will be able to tune in to her Facebook Fan page beginning today, where they'll be able to stream the album free of charge (though they won't be able to download digitial copies). The album's "real" release date isn't until December 15. This marks the first time a world-famous artist has debuted their album through the site. Now, it isn't unheard of for artists to debut albums and songs through the web, but this has long been an area dominated by MySpace. MySpace still sees its share of exclusives, but in the last few months Facebook has been getting an increasing amount of attention from artists. We've recently seen Chamillionaire and Sharkira release their new music videos exclusively though Ustream/Facebook, and there have been a number of big-name concerts streamed through the site as well.