Music Online Records
Music Online Records is one of the oldest and largest music portals in Brazil. It's since April 18, 1998 online. The headquarters is located in Sao Francisco area in Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
The portal was initially a hobby web developer André Luis de Andrade. His goal and desire was always to work with music and help artists to perform their music in public. It is one of the first projects in the world to put out the focus to provide music without having to pay money for it ( Music Online Records is even older than MySpace ).
The beginning
First, the site was only written in HTML and free servers like Geodties, Tripod.com and Xoom (web hosting). In 2000, the URL www.musiconline.com.br was purchased. In addition, an automated service was set up, which allows artists, composers and bands to login free of charge in the VIP AREA and register their own works online. The new system is written using PHP and MySQL.
Between 2000 and 2006, Music Online Records very high click-through rates and classified also for the Ibest Award, one of the biggest Brazilian Internet prices. In the years 2001, 2002 and 2006 Music Online Records has always been one of the TOP 3 Ibest winner. In the years 2002, 2003 and 2004, the portal was one of the top 5, in the year 2005 TOP 10 In all these years, the site was in direct competition with other major online music projects in Brazil, such as MTV Brazil and the sides of the singer Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil ..
The older versions of the page you can still look at the basis of a Way Back Machine.
The first extension
In 2006 Music Online Records improved his offer: The VIP service was expanded and the database of artists, song lyrics, music radio, music videos, artist photos, and much has also been expanded.
By 2011, the website had no great partner who helped with the implementation of the page. That's why the page was launched in the same year a partnership with XPG, a free website and blog portal. At the same time, the target of 100,000 registered users has been reached and the URL changed to www.musiconline.xpg.com.br.
Currently
In 2012 Music Online Records got a respectable place in its market niche. The unique visits increased to 1.5 million per month ( 50,000 a day) and also the followers in the various social networks (Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, Twitter) are steadily increasing. Also the content of the page has been greatly expanded and can now also ten other websites supply ( including Grátis Música Ouvir Músicas Grátis and ) the other way around also supply these with the portal content ( for example, online games channel).
Release 27 September 2012: 110,000 Artists, 110,000 registered users, 1.7 million lyrics, chords 189,000, 5,000 radio playlists, artists 60,000 photos, 3,000 yard bands and a complete channel with concerts and music news. In the portal, there are also a million online songs and videos from YouTube, API and other partners.
In the coming years the content part is to be expanded, it will be discussed about the music more for the quality of the songs and the sides increases. Similarly, there are ideas to implement and offline projects to help people to develop further.