Spiral Frog has died. You are now probably saying to yourself, I know what spiral ham is, but what’s Spiral Frog?
Spiral Frog was a music download service, once feted by The New York Times as a possible major competitor to iTunes. They had a seemingly ingenious concept, which seems pedestrian today: Ad-supported music downloads.
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I didn’t attend the Grammy Awards this year — the past few shows disappointed me, and diminishing ratings proved that many others felt similarly. It had gotten to the point where many music bloggers want to bury the awards and the show.
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Though they hope to one day exit Chapter 11 protection, we can add Muzak to the growing cemetery of iconic music industry names — like Tower Records, Sam Goody, and Chrysalis Records (for you Tull and Blondie fans) — that have faltered of late. In case you’ve never left your cubicle, Muzak is widely credited with inventing constantly humming, non-offending “elevator music” one often hears in stores, office and store hoists, and dentists’ offices.
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I bought a CD today. In fact I bought two. Admittedly, fewer Americans buy CDs — and sales are almost half what they were in 2000. My teenagers don’t buy them anymore, because they’re voracious consumers of digital gift cards.
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Entertainment | Russ Crupnick, Vice President, Senior Industry Analyst | 
April 1, 2009 10:04 am | 
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