Yahoo! Music was a brand under which

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provided a variety of music services, including

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, news, artist information, and

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. Previously, users with Yahoo! accounts could gain access to hundreds of thousands of songs sorted by artist, album, song and

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History

Yahoo Music began as "LAUNCH", a website and magazine produced by LAUNCH Media which Yahoo acquired for US$12 million in 2001. LAUNCH was later rebranded as "Yahoo Music", then simply "Y! Music" in February 2005. LAUNCH's

LAUNCHcast Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) was an Internet radio service offered by Clear Channel Communications' iHeartRadio through Yahoo! Music. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, and originally developed by Todd Beaupré, ...

and music video offerings were integrated into Yahoo's site along with artist profiles containing an extensive selection of music and biographical information. On September 14, 2004, Yahoo purchased Musicmatch, Inc., makers of the

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software. As of Musicmatch 10.1, Yahoo has rebranded Musicmatch Jukebox as Yahoo Music Musicmatch Jukebox, and integrated it with the Yahoo Music Engine store. The main difference is the branding and physical program. In 2005, Yahoo Music became the first major online music service to provide a $5 per month unlimited download service similar to the Open Music Model, albeit with

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, called

Yahoo! Music Unlimited Yahoo! Music Unlimited was an on-demand online music service launched on May 10, 2005 and provided by Yahoo! Music. The service was discontinued on September 30, 2008. Service Users paid a subscription fee to access a library of over two milli ...

. Yahoo Music was the number one online music site in terms of audience reach and total time spent in March 2007. In 2008, Yahoo announced that Yahoo Music Unlimited will be merged into

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. This merge was completed with the shutdown of Yahoo Music Unlimited on September 30, 2008. In 2011, Yahoo Music became the main CBS Radio player, with its rival

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switching to

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. A year later, Yahoo would switch to iHeartRadio as its music service. As of September 2018, Yahoo! Music's site has been consolidated into

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's site and all Yahoo! Music's URLs redirect to Yahoo! Entertainment with its own "Music" section.Music , Yahoo! Entertainment
- (accessed September 21, 2022)

Services

Yahoo Music offered a variety of services, including: * Artist profiles, music videos and lyrics * Live Sets – video concerts from A-list artists * Official

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coverage * Pepsi Smash on Yahoo Music – video interviews, performances, and reality segments * Play – music identifier * Who's Next – Listeners' vote on emerging artists *

Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yahoo! Music Jukebox, formerly known as Yahoo! Music Engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005 to compete with iTunes and Rhapsody in the digital music market. Developed side-by-side with MusicMatch Jukebox, another music pl ...

Yahoo! Music Radio Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) was an Internet radio service offered by Clear Channel Communications' iHeartRadio through Yahoo! Music. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, and originally developed by Todd Beaupré, ...

(formerly LAUNCHcast; content provided by iHeartRadio) and LAUNCHcast Plus Internet radio (until February 2009) *

subscription streaming and download service

References

External links

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American music websites

Internet properties established in 2001 Internet properties disestablished in 2018