Last.fm: Free music streams turn into increased music sales

arstechnica.com — Last.fm announced today that for at least one of its affiliates, CD and digital music sales increased by 119 percent after its free, ad-supported music streaming service launched a couple of months ago. If the trend sticks, we may see more full-track previews coming our way from other services. Apr 10, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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digitalpencil Apr 10, 2008

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RIAA's like the Panda... it's trying to go extinct!

hopefuel Apr 11, 2008

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the proof of the pudding and all that.

oneless Apr 11, 2008

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People actually watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Man, I learn something new every day.

secondwheel2 Apr 11, 2008

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belvelly Apr 14, 2008

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I'm pushing 50 and absolutely love the last.fm service. It is great for finding music from old regional bands that never would sell out to the big record companies. The big record companies prevented people from hearing so much great music for decades.

rap4abuck Apr 14, 2008

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This is welcomed news now if we can only push to have innovative,thought-provoking underground producers/musicians get an equal share of exposure on the airwaves. There's a lot of good music around but it is not promoted by mainstream media so it remains in obscurity. Talib Kweli has recently demonstrated by getting on Top 200 billboard charts that positive rap music is marketable and profitable. Other thought-provoking rappers like jair dynast have earned top ten albums of the year and hope to follow in footsteps of Talib Kweli. It's a pity that it took him so long to prove the critics wrong.