How many digital music startups do you think were born in 2008?

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more cowbell How many digital music startups do you think were born in 2008?
How have you listened to music this year? DON’T say “through my ears”, smart-arse. Me, I’ve used Deezer, Finetune, Hype Machine, Elbo.ws and Spotify, among others.
If you’re a web-enabled music-obsessed nerdlinger, 2008 has been a year of bounty. And however many new digital music start-ups you think you can name, chances are Music Ally has got you beat.
They’ve just published a list of such sites/applications, and it runs to no fewer than two bloody hundred. Of course the chances are you won’t have heard of most of them, which gives you some idea of how competitive the marketplace is.
It’s quite fun just to go through some of the names. Nappy Boy Digital? That’s T-Pain’s digital label, so if you mention it aloud you should probably have autotune on. Metalseek? A search engine just for heavy metal. Jogli? A database of, apparently, 500 million tracks. Have that many songs even been written?
Head over to Music Ally to see the exhaustive list. It includes a section for “Sites With Lots Of Cowbell”.