by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 1, 2020 | News
Last year, we discovered a year-long Reddit thread revealing MySpace lost 50 million songs after a server migration. Since the discovery, it appears they’ve been working on recovering the lost data as half a million of these deleted tracks have now been...
by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 18, 2019 | News
According to a year-long Reddit thread, Myspace lost all music uploaded to the site between the years of 2003 and 2015. Eight months ago, a reddit user pointed out the music player read the following error message: “As a result of a server migration project, any...
by Zach Shaw | May 14, 2012 | Digital Media
It used to be that every band had a MySpace page. Now, almost every group has a presence on Facebook. And now it’s become even easier (or harder if you ask music app makers) to listen to music via Facebook thanks to Spotify and other streaming services. But according...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 30, 2011 | Digital Media
After word leaked of its sale yesterday morning, it was later confirmed that MySpace was being sold to advertising network Specific Media for dismal $35 million. Two things popped into many people’s minds upon the announcement, one being “wow, MySpace was sold for...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 29, 2011 | Web 2.Oh-no
According to All Things Digital, News Corp. is about to sell MySpace for an asking price as low as $20 million-$30 million. At the moment, advertising network Specific Media and private equity firm Golden Gate Capital are the two frontrunners in acquiring the one-time...