Lastfm.ru is one of the best entertainment web sites in the internet. It's mentioned in many top lists and really well known. What is it about? Actually, it is music site, a kind of mix of online music database, music recommendations and social network.

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The first thing to tell about lastfm is "audioscrobbler".

It is a music recommender system created by Richard Jones. The system builds up a detailed profile of your musical taste. "Audioscrobbler" records details of the tracks the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices. The information is "scrobbled" to lastfm from music players or via plugins also. And, according to this data, site gives you recommendations - songs, artists, concerts.

As for personal accounts, registration is free, but since recent times in all countries, accept the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, it requires subscription that costs about 3 $ per month. That gives you: no advertisements, priority, the ability to view last visitors on a page, ability to use the whole set of possibilities of lastfm in your country, access to use radio on mobile devices.

A nice point is there is a huge database of artists including biography, tracks, albums, pictures, videos, events, charts, news, listeners and etc.

Structure

home page

Profile page contains basic sections like Recommendations, Library, Events, Friends, Inbox, and Settings. The content of your page depends on you: the more info you give, the more and better recommendations you get.

Tags. Lastfm supports tagging albums, artists, tracks in order to broad the choice of radio. Users can tag tracks themselves, for example tags can be like "muse", "inspiring", "and alternative" and so on.

Charts. It's probably my favorite thing about lastfm, cause the site generates your personal chart, charts of your friends, global charts as well. Global charts are really useful - you get last hits, you can see what the most popular tags are this week/year. For instance, this week top list of tracks includes "Happy" Pharrell Williams, "Do I wanna know" Arctic Monkeys.

Navigation of the site is pretty good. Almost every page has the "home page" link, search box, and main categories. It is not a problem to understand the site organization and get used to it.

The design is perfect! It's simple and stylish, all pages are lightish and the most important parts are red.

Statistics. Indexation in Google - 244 000 pages, in Yandex - 683 000 pages. Lastfm.ru traffic (popularity among users) equals 10 590 people per day according to Alexa. Global traffic is 1 122. About 30 million registered users by 2009, about 40 million by 2013.

The purpose of the site is clear - to entertain users - to provide them with favorite music and interesting information, give recommendations..The audience of lastfm includes all people all over the world who like music and like the way lastfm works.

http://www.last.fm/

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Masha Mamedova

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