Last.fm – the Blog

A week or so ago, on Sunday 14th December, we held our first open Hack Day, giving developers a chance to show off what they could build in a day with nothing but their wits and the Last.fm API.
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We’ve been going gadget crazy for last couple of months, as we work towards bringing you the Last.fm experience not just on your desktop but wherever you are able to listen to music.
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While other annual retrospectives are based on editors’ picks or sales data, the Last.fm Best of 2008 list is based entirely on what the Last.fm community has been listening to this year and shows ...

Back in June when we announced our new API, we were bowled over with the positive response. Hundreds of developers have been engaged in discussions over in our Web Services Group, building API bi...

Just a quick note for those of you with an iPhone. Our friends at Simplify Media have just released a new version of their iPhone app that includes Scrobbling and more in-depth Last.fm support. You...

With the Artist Royalty Program we wanted to solve a crucial problem. Since we started in 2002 we had licensed music from various ‘content owners’ (major and indie labels as well as digital music d...

If you regularly check your recommendations page like I do, you surely know that there are tons of artists waiting there to be discovered. In an attempt to make it a bit easier to discover somethin...

At Last.HQ we like to make a fuss over big new features and applications. But not every improvement to Last.fm is on the scale of an iPhone app or a site relaunch — the webteam also devotes time ev...

I recently finished a 3 month internship for Last.fm in the data junkie department. Officially I was a Java intern. That means turning coffee into code. In between thoughts of “why am in a country ...

Back in July we launched Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It was the end result of months of hard work and we were pretty happy with how it turned out. We received tons of positive feedback an...