#MusicMonday: Music Streaming & All Access in 2021

#MusicMonday and music streaming: a web-based service that lets users stream songs to their computers or mobile devices. It's 2021 and you can have it all; record players and vinyl, cassette tapes and CDs, a walkman and an iPod or some other type of MP3/PMP player, headphones or not... all access listening to diverse and eclectic music or your favorite songs cycled on repeat... play on!

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• iHeartRadio
• Pandora
• SoundCloud
• Spotify
• TIDAL
• YouTube Music

Catch up on the history leading up to music streaming in 2021.

• #MusicMonday: Phonograph 1870's
• #MusicMonday: Graphophone & Gramophone 1880's
• #MusicMonday: Berliner & National Gramophone Companies 1890's
• #MusicMonday: Developing Records Late 1890's - Early 1900's
• #MusicMonday: Shellac, RCA & EMI - Early 1900's Continued
• #MusicMonday: Vinyl, Record Company Growth - Mid 1900's
• #MusicMonday: How Vinyl Records Are Made
• #MusicMonday - American Independent Record Labels
• #MusicMonday: Cassette Tapes & Walkman - 1960's & 1970's
• #MusicMonday: Compact Discs (CDs) - 1980's
• #MusicMonday: Digital Music & MP3 Players - 1990's
• #MusicMonday: Portable Media Players (PMP) - 2000's

#MusicMonday: Vinyl, Record Company Growth - Mid 1900's

#MusicMonday is dedicated to records officially transitioning from shellac 78s to vinyl 33s (long play or LPs) and 45s (extended play or EPs), with the continued growth of Columbia, EMI, and RCA record companies.

• American Record Company (ARC) / Columbia / Decca / Epic / CBS
• EMI / Capitol / Universal Music Group
• RCA Victor

#MusicMonday: Shellac, RCA & EMI - Early 1900's Continued

#MusicMonday is dedicated to the phonograph disc record, also called a gramophone disc record, disc record, or record originally made from shellac and the continued development of record companies in the early 1900's, with Victor Company officially transitioning to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). 

#MusicMonday: Developing Records Late 1890's - Early 1900's

#MusicMonday is dedicated to the companies in the late 1890's to early 1900's who developed new ways to mass produce cylinders by adjusting sizes and materials to create records that could be widely distributed to further advance the growth of the recording industry.

• Columbia Phonograph Company
• North American Phonograph Company & National Phonograph Company
• Edison Gold-Moulded Cylinders
• Edison Amberol Cylinders
• Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Red Seal, Monarch and De Luxe

Edison "Blue Amberol" cylinder record posted by Jason Curtis (2017) with update by Slyadam (2018).

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