Last.fm

Last.fm is a global online music service founded in 2002 and headquartered in the United Kingdom. It aims to make music count for everyone by tracking people's music listening habits across multiple platforms. With a slogan of "Make Music Count for everyone. Join the team and help millions of users track, find and re-discover music," Last.fm offers a personalized music service that helps users discover and share new music through recommendations and exploration. The platform processes messy, crowd-sourced data from music listeners worldwide to provide global and personal music taste statistics and recommendations unique to each user. The company boasts a large, passionate, active user base with hundreds of millions of users. Last.fm is active on various platforms, including web, desktop, and mobile applications. It processes billions of data points per month and integrates with third-party applications and services such as Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, VLC, Sonos, and many others. The key features of Last.fm include tracking music listening history through a process called "Scrobbling," personalized music and event recommendations, a global encyclopedia of music, and social features that allow users to share their music discoveries and listening history on social networks. In May 2006, Last.fm received a $5.00M Series A investment from Index Ventures, Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito, and Stefan Glänzer. The company's vision is to become the connective tissue of music on the internet, unlocking information about users' personal relationships with music and the connections between music and the rest of the world.