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There was a company from the first dot-com boom called Big Champagne the crawled Napster and other file-sharing networks to discover what new songs were popular

There was a company from the first dot-com boom called Big Champagne the crawled Napster and other file-sharing networks to discover what new songs were popular. They're now owned by Ticketmaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigChampagne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigChampagne

jchanimal 9y ago
My team wrote a web crawler once to answer the same question about MP3 blogs. Fun era.
JBlue42 9y ago
Blast from the past that. I feel like I heard about them in The Industry Standard or Wired at the time.