Last.fm Goes Independent Again After 19 Years Under CBS
The music tracking service has broken free from CBS ownership and will continue operating with its existing team intact.
Last.fm is back on its own. The music scrobbling service announced on its forum that it's now an independent company again, nearly two decades after CBS scooped it up.
The key detail users care about: everything stays. Your profiles, your scrobbles, your meticulously tracked listening history — all safe. The current team remains in place, and the service will keep running as normal.
It's a rare move in tech. Most acquired companies either get absorbed, gutted, or quietly shut down. Last.fm somehow survived 19 years inside a media conglomerate and walked out the other side still functioning.
No word yet on what the independent roadmap looks like or who's bankrolling the split. For now, the message is simple: same Last.fm, no corporate parent. Scrobble on.