
Felix Miller (Last.fm CEO), Richard Jones (developer of the Audioscrobbler project) and Martin Stiksel do not explain the reasons for their departure and only express their appreciation to CBS, a company that purchased last.fm for $280 million two years ago.
They leave behind an incredible growth, with 37.3 million unique users per month.
However, despite the positive data, Last.fm suffered a lot of angry criticism from some users when they announced that the last.fm radio will become a paid service. It is unknown yet if the decision was their option or imposed by CBS.