Wow! They had some great growth going on and it seemed to hit a wall hard around 2008-2009. Any idea why?
Then they killed radio.
I'm really sad to see it die, it was better at introducing me to new artists than any other service before or since, and the radio was brilliant.
Last year CBS decided the whippersnappers needed a redesign and took out around 80% of the features and put the site into a perpetual beta state.
Was mad about that as Last radio was my first choice for work listening.
The site was dated as they were frozen in 2008 - After CBS bought them there was one update very soon after then the site didn't change at all until last year. Minor updates and bug fixes only.
As for the update last year, pretty and vacant, doesn't bring back the things I loved about the site, but lets me see lots of pretty graphs of things I'm not interested in. I took a look at libre fm after that, but that's even more abandoned.
"In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."