🎶Napster, former symbol of music piracy 🏴‍☠️, has lived through practically all the era of the internet:   

1️⃣Web1 in the late 90s (allowing illegal downloads via mp3 format).  2️⃣Web2 from 2008 to 2019 (offering legal streaming content via subscription).  

3️⃣In recent years it has started a new era in Web3 (sold to a virtual concert company and then in 2022 purchased by Hiveming and Algorand).

In 2025 the brand was purchased by Infinite Reality for 207 million which would like to transform Napster into a social music platform, emphasizing the interaction between artists and fans through the metaverse. A sort of MySpace of Web3, even if the goal is to create immersive 3D spaces where fans can attend virtual concerts and interact with artists.   

To date the most famous service on Web3 is sound.xyz which allows you to buy music tracks by emerging artists in NFT format (on Optimism chain).