In this episode of “When Rock Ruled The Charts” we take a close look at 6/1/99, the day that Napster Platform Launched. This week we will be looking at the singles chart for the BB hot 200 Albums.
Napster was an American peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. Founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, the platform originally launched on June 1, 1999. Audio shared on the service was typically encoded in the MP3 format.
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In the “When Rock Ruled The Charts” series, we look at a specific day, week, or month in music history and discuss briefly the significance of that date and then take a deeper dive into the music or album charts for that time period to look at what was happening in music during that period of time.
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