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Streaming services saw a significant pace of growth in the late 2000s, overtaking music stores as the largest revenue stream of digital music. Streaming services, along with streams of music-related content on video sharing platforms, were incorporated into the methodologies of major record charts. The "album-equivalent unit" was also developed as an alternative metric for the consumption of albums, to account for digital music and streaming. The rise in popularity of music streaming services started in 2005 and has continued to grow steadily. Consumer preferences moving away from traditional physical media towards streaming platforms, attributed to their convenience, variety, and affordability.[1]
Pandora Radio launched in 2005; the service initially allowed users to create and listen to internet radio stations based on categories such as genres, which could then be personalized by giving "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" ratings to songs and artists the user liked or disliked. The service's recommendation engine, the Music Genome Project, analyzes and determines songs based on various traits.[6][7] As Pandora initially operated within the royalty framework enforced by SoundExchange for internet radio in the United States,[8][9] the service did not allow users to freely choose songs to play on-demand, and users could only skip a limited number of songs per-hour (although users could later receive more skips by watching video advertisements).[10][7][11]