Spotify and Napster.

Spotify:

• Spotify is a music streaming service which is available for downloading on mac OS X, linux and Microsoft Windows. 
• The founder and CEO is Daniel Ek.
• Spotify was introduced to the market at the perfect time as broadband was created and many people were beginning to get smart phones.
• They stream music from a variety of major independent record labels which include 'the big four'.
• It was launched in 2008 and by September 2010 it already had around 10 million users.

Napster:

• Napster is an application which allows which allows people to share music over the internet.
• The founder was 19 year old Shaun Fanning in 1999.
• It first became popular in college campuses.
• In 2001 Napster was shut down by court order due to copyright infringement.

Both of these music providers were important to the music industry as it made it easier for the consumer (us) to source this music and download/stream it from our own homes.