Logo with shiny reflection .. check.
Rate, share and embed music .. check.
Create customised playlists .. check.
Free .. check.

Deezer = Web 2 point whatever compliant..

With Pandora shutting out non-US users, and CBS’s acquisition of my favourite favourite last.fm (on May 30th) the personalised-music-on-demand landscape is probably ready for something like this.

Who knows what the future holds for last.fm. Although it’s miles ahead (imho) of any other music service, the fact that it’s no longer your friendly neighbourhood, independently run system, but rather an arm of an American media powerhouse is enough to have many users worried (from last.fm: apparently CBS won’t mess with the site).

Anyway, enough about all that. I actually wanted an excuse to test Deezer’s embeddable music player.

This is in my current top 5 songs of the year:

The National - Mistaken for strangers (from The Boxer) (video).

On the subject of top lists, The Muso is doing a top 20 of the year so far: 20 - 16; 15 - 11; 10 - 6 (their site seems to be down at the moment though)