At the end of 2023, Boomplay said it had 98 million monthly active users across Africa. Napster is considerably smaller: It had a little more than 1 million monthly active users at the end of 2020 ...

CD sales would begin a decline to $537.1 million in 2023. "Napster was the beginning of the end for record stores selling physical media such as LPs, cassettes, and CDs," Pohlmann said.

Director Alex Winter explores how Napster brought the music industry to its knees 13 years ago, and where all of the players are now. Thanks to VH1, who funded a big portion of Winter’s vision ...

Most of all, will Napster represent the end of the music industry, as we know it? Maybe, but unlikely. We’ve heard this type of wild conjecture before remember how computers were supposed to dispose ...

Despite its name remaining one of the most loaded terms in Internet history, Napster’s mission to go straight still chugs along, and the now-music streaming service’s latest plays are ...

Napster is accused of being late with royalty payments by music companies, including several record labels and distributors.