5 ms·
I come from a poor family and mp3.com was how I made my first proper money as a kid. I did "remixes" of video game music and mp3.com would pay per play. I somet
by terhechte 4y ago
I come from a poor family and mp3.com was how I made my first proper money as a kid. I did "remixes" of video game music and mp3.com would pay per play. I sometimes made $1000 per month. It was incredible. Sadly, after a couple of month they changed their model and didn't pay indie artists anymore.
- com2kid 4y agoSince they weren't charging listeners, and they never had audio ads, it isn't a surprise they stopped paying for plays! They did happily sell CDs though, which I bought a few of. Quite a few bands used MP3.com to promote their live shows as well. Entire genres of music thrived on MP3.com, and when the site went away, so did some of those genres, similar to how Soundcloud created entire new genres of music through community and discoverability.