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" Facebook engineers have revealed that 62.6 million songs were played on Facebook&amp;#039;s music apps over the past year. The music-focused timeline apps were launched on the social networking site in September 2011, and allow users to discover new music, listen to internet radio, make playlists and engage with music in a variety of different ways. Music Week reports that 62.6m songs have been played through the apps for a total of 22 billion plays, which in real time adds up to around 210,000 years of music.  In a blog post, Facebook engineer Lincoln Hochberg said that the timeline platform has allowed developers to bring &amp;quot;what was traditionally only possible offline - music discovery through friends - into all types of music apps on the web and for mobile&amp;quot;. Hochberg cited a number of specific apps as being particularly successful, including the social internet radio app 8tracks, the playlist compiler Songza, and the web and mobile app SoundTracking, which allows users to identify the music playing around them. He also noted the growth of streaming sites such as Deezer, iHeartRadio and Spotify, nothing that the French-based service Deezer in particular is adding 50,000 new users every day. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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