Soundtrack.Net (originally SoundtrackNet) is a website dedicated to film and television music.
History
Created in 1997 by Amélie E. Koran and Dan Goldwasser at
Carnegie Mellon University, Soundtrack.Net has grown over the past decade to become one of the leading websites covering the film music industry in Hollywood.
In 1998 the site merged with FilmMusic.com (founded in 1996) to create a large database, which includes the largest publicly accessible trailer music database online today. In November 2005, ''
Time Magazine
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'' listed SoundtrackNet as one of the "Top 20 Music Websites of 2005".
As of January 1, 2008, the scoring session news items have all been moved to ScoringSessions.com.
On October 16, 2011, SoundtrackNet was purchased by
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is ...
co-founder Sean Saulsbury, and renamed to Soundtrack.Net.
Journalism
On July 22, 2000, SoundtrackNet broke the news about
Howard Shore being assigned to score
''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. On October 14, 2005, SoundtrackNet revealed that
Howard Shore was replaced on
Peter Jackson's ''
King Kong
King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise. His first appearance was in the novelizat ...
'' by composer
James Newton Howard.
James Newton Howard replaces Howard Shore on ''King Kong''
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References
External links
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American music websites
Internet properties established in 1997
Soundtrack mass media
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