Whois & Analysis for mp3.com

MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies.

It is better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting their work.

It was named after the popular music file format, MP3.

It was shut down on December 2, 2003 by CNET, which, after purchasing the domain name (but not MP3.com's technology or music assets), established the current MP3.com site.

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.

Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.

There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song.

Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys or marketing campaigns for food and other products.

Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium.

Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip".

are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses.

The writer of lyrics is a lyricist.

The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, as a "librettist".

The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit.

Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of expression.

Rappers can also create lyrics with a variation of rhyming words or words that create and tell a story or song.

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.

According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9% of all music sales in the US in 2012.

As of January 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made $1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year.