Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case. It even had a second earphone jack so that two people could listen in at once.
The first ever Music TV channel was aired.
The first Compact Discs were invented.
The first commercial CD album was released in Japan, in October 1982. It was Billy Joel with '52nd Street'
The Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee
The first MP3 player was invented.
The Samsung SPH-M2100 was the first Mobile Phone that was able to play music.
iTunes was launched.
Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices.
Pirate Bay is probably the most popular music pirating website, where users can upload or search and download music for free.
The iTunes Store, originally the iTunes Music Store, is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc.
A user with the name "slvgdvg" posted a video of "I Lick My Brain in Silence" by Japanese electronic musician Coppé.
Spotify was developed in 2006 by a team at Spotify AB, in Stockholm, Sweden. The company was founded by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of TradeDoubler.
SoundCloud is a Swedish online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. According to the company’s data, in December 2014, the service attracts more than 175 million unique monthly listeners, while content creators upload about 12 hours worth of audio every minute.
The website's founders were found guilty in Sweden for assisting in copyright infringement. In some countries, Internet service providers have been ordered to block access to the website. Subsequently, proxies provided access to it.[
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