Project Playlist

Project Playlist Buys TotalMusic; Licenses Sony/ATV, EMI

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 19, 2009 - 10:56am.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Project Playlist, a social music site that lets users create and share song playlists, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the assets and employees of TotalMusic, a digital catalog management and reporting system. TotalMusic was an initiative conceived by Sony BMG and Universal Music Group, which acquired the Ruckus campus music streaming service last year, but then shut down in February before launching any service.

Project Playlist Names MTV Co-founder Sykes as New CEO

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 24, 2009 - 10:58am.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Project Playlist, a service that allows users to create and share song playlists, said on Friday that it has named MTV co-founder and former Infinity Broadcasting CEO John Sykes as its new chief executive. Sykes replaces Owen Van Natta, the former CFO of Facebook who left Project Playlist to become the new chief executive at MySpace.

EMI Drops Suit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 25, 2009 - 10:42am.
London - Major record label EMI has dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against Project Playlist, and instead licensed its full catalog to the site that lets users create playlists from streaming songs served from across the Internet, TechCrunch reported.

Project Playlist Raises $20 Million, Names New CEO

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 12, 2008 - 8:18am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Project Playlist, a site that lets users build song playlists and share them across social media sites, has raised around $20 million in new financing, and named former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as its new CEO, VentureBeat reported.

Report: imeem Leapfrogs Yahoo to Become Top Music Streamer

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 13, 2008 - 10:11am.

Los Angeles - Social music service imeem has surpassed Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) to become the top streaming music service, claiming 10.3 million unique visitors in March, Wired.com reported, citing data from analytics firm Compete.

Project Playlist Hires Former RIAA Head as Consultant

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 9, 2008 - 10:44am.

San Francisco - Project Playlist, a service that aggregates streaming music links into playlists, and has been sued for copyright infringement by three of the four major record labels, has hired former Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) CEO Jay Berman as a consultant, CNET News.com reports. Project Playlist CEO Jeremy Riney told News.com that he will shut his site down if he is not able to license music legally from the labels; the sole major not party to the lawsuit against the company, Sony BMG, is reportedly negotiating with Project Playlist.

Record Labels Sue Music Stream Aggregator Project Playlist

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 29, 2008 - 9:33am.

New York - Divisions of three of the four major record labels on Monday filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Project Playlist, a site that lets users create playlists from streaming songs served from all over the Internet, Reuters reported. For its part, Project Playlist maintains that it does not host any music files, but instead merely links to files on many third-party sites, including many on record label websites.

Project Playlist Raises $3 Million for Social Music Sharing

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 26, 2007 - 7:31am.

Beverly Hills, Calif. - Project Playlist, a service that lets users share music playlists on blogs and social network profiles, has raised $3 million in its first round of funding, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.