Take a dash of American Idol, add a few drops of YouTube and MySpace, and what you get is something pretty close to the newly launched Karaoke site SingShot.
SingShot provides Karaoke tracks to many popular songs and allows you to record your own voice over the top of these tracks. It even provides the words (a la Karaoke). You can then share your recording with other people, either at SingShot or by pasting code into your own site (be it MySpace or your own web site). A very clever interface allows you to do all of this online, in real time.
The only real draw back is that many of the available songs are time-worn Karaoke favourites. You’ll be fine if you want to sing along to the Beatles or Tom Jones, but disappointed if you’re expecting the latest hits.
It’s free to create a profile and to rate other people’s efforts, but $59.40 per year if you want to record your own songs (this can be paid quarterly or monthly). When you first join there’s a two-week free trial period when you can record for free.