Last.fm Goes Independent After Breaking Up With Paramount Skydance
Don't worry: It will keep your profiles and scrobbles.
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Last.fm is an independent company again, it has announced on its forum, nearly two decades after it was acquired by CBS. "Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company," the announcement reads. "Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not." It also said that it will keep its current team. Last.fm is a music website that can track what you listen to across platforms, apps and streaming services, including Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.
The company will retain your accounts and scrobbles, which are what it calls the recorded plays of a song, as they are. When you play a track on a streaming service you've connected to Last.fm, it "scrobbles" that song and logs it to your profile for tracking. Every play is equivalent to one scrobble. It will also keep your...
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