Music Streaming Service Once Valued In The Billions Before Collapsing
If you access MP3.com now, you’ll find a home page filled with links to
various news articles in glorified clickbait fashion. But once upon a time, it was home to a vast music sharing network worth billions…at least on paper!
Today, we take for granted the idea that we can easily access practically any type of music through the web. With the rise of DSL and Broadband by the turn of the century, it was much easier to stream or download digital media in ways that earlier Internet access, with its 56K maximum speed, couldn’t. Continue reading “This Date In History: MP3.com Goes Public in 1999”
previous summer with their breakthrough debut album, Beauty and the Beat.
hunkered down for an unknown period of time, awaiting a cure, or at least some sort of ‘all clear’ to begin going about our lives.
took place before, during, and after the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022.
Indiana, unless you’ve visited or have family hailing from those parts…neither of which is my case.
and roll in this day and age is that all of the really big acts are now at the “grandparent” age. Yes, there are definitely newer acts keeping the scene alive, but with the demise of local radio in lieu of large corporate broadcast networks and the rise of “talent scout” network TV shows, it’s become much more difficult for new alternative bands to get their foot in the door on a national/international level.