MySpace reemerged from the shadows this week to announce that all music uploaded to the site before 2015 has been lost.
date back at least a year to when a user couldn’t access songs on the site. A response attributed to the social network’s support team said that the site was aware of the issue and that it was working to resolve it, but that no resolution was forthcoming.
The once enormously popular platform, which launched in 2003, attracted millions of users in its prime but has since waned. Over the years, it has been transferred from owner to owner, counting Justin Timberlake among those who once had a stake. Almost by accident, MySpace became especially popular among indie musicians as a democratic place to share music and unite fans. It helped catapult the careers of English rock band Arctic Monkeys, singer-songwriter Kate Nash and even Taylor Swift.
But in more recent years, MySpace has become a sort of internet footnote, dwarfed by the popularity of Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other social media sites.Get breaking stories straight from Hollywood, covering film, television, music and more.
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