Online Timeline : Music Industry

1969                    

ARPANET CONNECTS 4 US MILITARY COMPUTERS

1991                    

MP3 FILE FORMAT INVENTED

·       Music picture motion group

·       Compressed music format

·       Digital

1993                    

PEOPLE OUTSIDE CERN INVITED TO JOIN THE WORLD WIDE WEB

·       Tim Berners Lee submitted proposal for Information Sharing Database at CERN in 1989

·       Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

·       TBL submitted plan for www in 1989

·       1^st website went live from CERN in 1991

·       Cern releases World Wide Web Source Code

1993                    

WWW REACHED 130 WEBSITES

1997                    

GOOGLE.COM REGISTERED AS A DOMAIN NAME

·       All things Google began in 1995. That's when Sergey Brin, a 21-year-old student at Stanford University, took University of Michigan graduate Larry Page, just a year older, on a tour of the campus.

·       Developed an algorithm to count and qualify every back link on the Web

·       Algorithm was called PageRank and this was inserted into a search engine called BackRub.

·       Google, after "googol," the term used to describe the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

1999                   

BLOGGER LAUNCHED

Web 2.0 and birth of the prosumer

1999                   

NAPSTER LAUNCHES AS THE 1^st LARGE SCALE P2P FILE SHARING NETWORK

·       Rock Band Metallica launched legal challenge vs Napster

·       2001 – Napster taken down due to copyright infringement

·       Along with the accusations that Napster was hurting the sales of the record industry, there were those who felt just the opposite, that file trading on Napster stimulated, rather than hurt, sales.

2001                    

APPLE LAUNCH THE iPOD

2003                   

APPLE LAUNCHES iTUNES STORE

2003                   

GOOGLE PURCHASES BLOGGER

·       Media convergence (institutional)

·       Android, Nexus, Picassa, Youtube,

2004                    

THE FACEBOOK LAUNCHED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

·       Mark Zuckerburg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Coursematch, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where you could rate people's attractiveness.

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2005                   

YOUTUBE LAUNCHED

·       The first YouTube video, titled Me at the Zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo

·       On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion

2005                   

MUSIC DOWNLOADS OUTSELL PHYSICAL MUSIC SALES FOR 1^st TIME

2005                   

DOWNLOADED MUSIC INCORPORATED INTO UK MUSIC CHARTS FOR 1^st TIME

2006                   

TWITTER LAUNCHED

·       Twitter is the brainchild of a programmers who worked at the podcasting company Odeo Inc. in San Francisco.

·       The founders are Jack Dorsey (@Jack), Evan Williams (@Ev) and Biz Stone (@Biz).

·       Other names considered: FriendStalker and Dodgeball.

2007                    

APPLE LAUNCH THEIR FIRST iPHONE

·       Jobs said, "This is a day, that I have been looking forward to for two and a half years", and that "today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone."

·       Jobs introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices: a "widescreen iPod with touch controls"; a "revolutionary mobile phone"; and a "breakthrough Internet communicator"

2008                    

SPOTIFY LAUNCHES

·       Global revenue for the recording industry peaked in 1999 at $27bn

·       by 2008 it was way down at $14bn.

·       It was this year that the four major record labels – Universal, EMI Music, Sony (SNE), Warner (WMG), agree to participate in an experiment.

·       With Merlin on board, the organization representing independent music labels, they all gave their entire cataloguess to a Swedish startup run by a then-25-year-old, Daniel Ek, who had no experience in the music industry.

2010                    

INSTAGRAM LAUNCHED

·       It’s hard to imagine a world without Instagram. Without the Valencia filter. Without square-format pictures

·       But that world did once exist — just a mere six years ago.

·       2010, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger unleashed the photo-sharing platform now used by over 500 million people.

2011                   

 2 BILLION VIDEOS VIEWED EVERY DAY ON YOUTUBE

·       Since YouTube launched in 2005, the video streaming site has seen 14 videos break the 2 billion views mark

·       Psy's "Gangnam Style" being the first to do so - even requiring YouTube to change its view capacity after hitting 2,147,483,647 in December 2014.

2012                   

 WWW REACHED 634 MILLION WEBSITES

·       2014 reached 1 billion

·       1.3 billion and counting now

2014                    

MUSIC STREAMING INCLUDED IN UK CHARTS FOR 1^st TIME

·       Music streaming doubled in popularity in the UK between 2013 and 2014, from 100 million to 200 million streams a week, currently averaging 260 million.

·       broke the 62-year link between buying a piece of music and its position in the charts.

·       gives a more accurate representation of what people are listening to.

·       the average UK Top 40 single will have made at least 8,000 sales, while the number one track will have sold around 100,000 copies.

·       150 streams equal 1 sale.

·       streaming is capped at 10 plays per person per day, so only 70 of your plays can be counted each week,

·       But by incorporating only audio streams, and omitting the billions of video views on sites like YouTube, the picture will still not be complete

·       2016 Drake's 'One Dance'. A song that made it to FIFTEEN WEEKS at number one in July BUT was not available to watch via Youtube

·       People had no choice but to stream it or buy it.