Last.fm Is An Independent Company Once More

Last.HQ Staff / Last.fm Support Forum: Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. Last.fm is one of those perfect, does what it says on the tin, services that the Internet used to be so good at creating. Listen to music, scrobble (or log) the song you listened to, and you’ve got days, months and years of listening status. CBS Interactive bought it in 2007 and it’s just kind of…sat there, since. Now, they’re on their own again, and they make what they want. I, for one, would love to see more orgs breaking off of the conglomerates which bought them, and finding their own sustainable business, as opposed to being stuck as a cog in a much larger system. …Now, if they say anything about AI or NFTs or…