38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox!

38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox!

Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.

No single strategy for listening to music online has come to dominate the market, as record labels, managers, artists,… Continue Reading

CBS buys music recommendation service Last.fm for $280M

CBS buys music recommendation service Last.fm for $280M

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CBS has bought music recommendation website Last.fm for $280 million, the extremely popular London-based company that lets users search for and listen to music based on their past preferences and recommendations of other users.

Last.fm says it has around 20 million active users each month, four… Continue Reading