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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9" title="آل‌میوزیک – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="آل‌میوزیک" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95" title="অলমিউজিক – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="অলমিউজিক" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA" title="Олмюзик – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Олмюзик" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9" title="آل‌میوزیک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آل‌میوزیک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%AC%EB%AE%A4%EC%A7%81" title="올뮤직 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="올뮤직" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF" title="オールミュージック – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="オールミュージック" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%86%DA%B5%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9" title="ئۆڵمیوزیک – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئۆڵمیوزیک" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" title="Allmusic – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Allmusic" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%81" title="ออลมิวสิก – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ออลมิวสิก" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="AllMusic" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">AllMusic</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg/220px-AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="37" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg/330px-AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg/440px-AllMusic_Text_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="87" /></a></span><br /><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:AllMusic_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/RhythmOne" title="RhythmOne">RhythmOne</a> (since 2015)<sup id="cite_ref-rhythmone_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhythmone-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Erlewine" title="Michael Erlewine">Michael Erlewine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/">allmusic.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Optional</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">1991<span class="noprint">; 33 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1991</span>)</span> (as All Music Guide)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Online" class="mw-redirect" title="Online">Online</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>AllMusic</b> (previously known as <b>All-Music Guide</b> and <b>AMG</b>) is an American <a href="/wiki/Online_database" title="Online database">online music database</a>. It catalogs more than three million <a href="/wiki/Album" title="Album">album</a> entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on <a href="/wiki/Musical_artist" class="mw-redirect" title="Musical artist">musicians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Musical_ensemble" title="Musical ensemble">bands</a>. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-Wired_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AllMusic is owned by <a href="/wiki/RhythmOne" title="RhythmOne">RhythmOne</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AllMusic&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>AllMusic was launched as <b>All-Music Guide</b> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Erlewine" title="Michael Erlewine">Michael Erlewine</a>, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">CDs</a> replaced <a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record">LPs</a> as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by <a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a>. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash".<sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> to create a music guide.<sup id="cite_ref-Videoland_book_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Videoland_book-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1990, in <a href="/wiki/Big_Rapids,_Michigan" title="Big Rapids, Michigan">Big Rapids, Michigan</a>, he founded <i>All Music Guide</i> with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Caruso" title="Enrico Caruso">Enrico Caruso</a> gave the industry its first big boost".<sup id="cite_ref-Wired_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first <i>All Music Guide</i>, published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled <i>All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-world_cat_first_ed_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-world_cat_first_ed-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based <a href="/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)" title="Gopher (protocol)">Gopher</a> site.<sup id="cite_ref-Wired_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vice_history_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vice_history-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It moved to the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> as <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browsers</a> became more user-friendly.<sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Erlewine hired a database engineer, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bogdanov_(editor)" title="Vladimir Bogdanov (editor)">Vladimir Bogdanov</a>, to design the <i>All Music Guide</i> framework, and recruited his nephew, writer <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Thomas_Erlewine" title="Stephen Thomas Erlewine">Stephen Thomas Erlewine</a>, to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music".<sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1,400 subgenres of music were created, a feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in <i>Tedium</i>, Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which the music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like <a href="/wiki/Sadcore" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadcore">sadcore</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-big_data_smith_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-big_data_smith-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $3.5 million. He left the company after its sale.<sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by <a href="/wiki/Ron_Burkle" class="mw-redirect" title="Ron Burkle">Ron Burkle</a>'s Yucaipa Equity Fund.<sup id="cite_ref-Videoland_book_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Videoland_book-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to <a href="/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan" title="Ann Arbor, Michigan">Ann Arbor</a>, where the staff expanded from 12 to 100 people.<sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors".<sup id="cite_ref-Weisbard_Voice_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weisbard_Voice-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $72 million by <a href="/wiki/TiVo_Corporation" title="TiVo Corporation">TiVo Corporation</a> (known as Macrovision at the time of the sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, AllMusic removed all of <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Adams" title="Bryan Adams">Bryan Adams</a>' info from the site per a request from the artist.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as <a href="/wiki/RhythmOne" title="RhythmOne">RhythmOne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rhythmone_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhythmone-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of <a href="/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a> and <a href="/wiki/MongoDB" title="MongoDB">MongoDB</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ernie_smith_vice_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ernie_smith_vice-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_All_Music_Guide_series">The All Music Guide series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AllMusic&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The All Music Guide series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The All Media Network produced the <i>All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide</i> (at first released as <i>The Experts' Guide</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-Metro_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which includes a series of publications about various music genres. It was followed by the <i>Required Listening</i> series, and Annual guides. <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bogdanov_(editor)" title="Vladimir Bogdanov (editor)">Vladimir Bogdanov</a> is the president and the main editor of the series.<sup id="cite_ref-Billboard_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Billboard-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music</i> (1st edition: 1992, 2nd ed: 1994, 3rd ed: 1997, 4th ed: 2001, 5th ed: 2008)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music</i> (2004)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country Music</i> (1st ed: 1997, 2nd ed: 2003)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music</i> (2001)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to Hip-hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop</i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Music_Guide_to_Jazz" title="All Music Guide to Jazz">All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music</a></i>  (1st ed: 1994, 2nd ed: 1996, 3rd ed: 1998, 4th ed: 2002)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul</i> (1st ed: 1995, 2nd ed: 1997, 3rd ed: 2002)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul</i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Music_Guide_to_the_Blues" title="All Music Guide to the Blues">All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues</a></i> (1st ed: 1996, 2nd ed: 1999, 3rd ed: 2003)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide Required Listening: Classic Rock</i> (2007)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide Required Listening: Contemporary Country</i> (2008)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide Required Listening: Old School Rap & Hip-hop</i> (2008)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to the Music of 2002: Your Guide to the Recordings of the Year</i> (2003)</li> <li><i>All Music Guide to the Music of 2003: Your Guide to the Recordings of the Year</i> (2004)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AllMusic&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2007, <i><a href="/wiki/PCMag" title="PCMag">PC Magazine</a></i> included AllMusic in its "Top 100 Classic Websites" list.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wired_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See 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