Songza
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Type of site
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Free internet radio |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, United States |
| Owner | Alphabet Inc. |
| Created by | Aza Raskin and Scott Robbin |
| Slogan(s) | Good music makes good times. |
| Website | songza |
| Alexa rank |
 7,598 (December 2015[update]) |
| Launched | November 8, 2007 |
| Current status | Discontinued |
Songza was a free music streaming and recommendation service for Internet users in the United States and Canada.
Stating that its playlists are made by music experts, the service would recommend its users on various playlists based on time of day and mood or activity. Songza offered playlists for activities such as waking up, working out, commuting, concentrating, unwinding, entertaining, and sleeping. Users would vote songs up or down, and the service will adapt to the user's personal music preferences. Users would find playlists not just based on artists, songs, or genres, but also based on themes, interests, and eras, such as "90s One-Hit Wonders", or "Music of Fashion Week".
Songza was headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, New York.
On December 2, 2015, Google announced Songza would merge into Google Play Music on January 31, 2016. As of February 1st 2016, the main site is offline, displaying a redirect to Google Play Music.
Amie Street acquired Songza, a product created by Aza Raskin and Scott Robbin, in October 2008. In August 2010, Amie Street was sold to Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Shortly after this the co-founders – CEO Elias Roman, COO Peter Asbill, CPO Elliott Breece and CCO Eric Davich – refocused their efforts on Songza. The team discontinued the original version and relaunched a new alpha version of Songza, keeping nothing of the original product but the name.
Over the next year the founders experimented with various iterations, when the app originally launched in 2010 "it was like a pre-Turntable.fm. A function called Social Radio allowed users to be DJs for their friends" stated PandoDaily. This version of the app allowed it to be social and crowdsourced; the problem with it was that the service as it stood was not sufficiently differentiated from other services on the market and the quality of the crowd sourced playlists was low. Following a year of testing various iterations of the alpha version of the app, Songza relaunched in beta on iPhone and Android apps on September 13, 2011, armed with a team of 25 expert music curators.
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