Highlighting just how spectacular the Timeline can be, if used properly

Mar 30, 2012 13:51 GMT  ·  By

The Facebook Timeline for pages hasn't exactly been received warmly by page admins, just like with regulars users before. But some companies are making the best of it, Spotify is only now debuting its page, but it's doing a great job at encapsulating the Timeline's advantages.

"We’ve decided to take our page one step further and turn it into a destination where you can discover and listen to the history of music," Spotify announced.

"If you’re looking to learn when Frank Sinatra released his first album, what year Monteverdi was born, when Britney released …Baby One More Time, what were the biggest music stories in 1969, or just how old you were when L’il Wayne put out Tha Carter III then we’ve got you covered," it said.

The Spotify Facebook page now recounts the history of music from some of the earliest composers, around 1001. It goes from there with some of the older surviving music that can be attributed to a composer.

The history lesson starts with liturgical music and troubadours. For a few hundred years, this is the music that dominated the cultural landscape, at least the one that survived.

Spotify then goes through several classic composers and starts illustrating more examples as we approach more modern ages.

Spotify says this is just the beginning, it plans to add more notable composers and more events related to music in time.

A timeline of music depicting its evolution is interesting enough, but the twist is that Spotify has a link to the actual music illustrated in each Timeline event. Each composer has at least an album available on Spotify. If you ever wondered what music sounded 1,000 years ago, wonder no more.

It must be noted though that some of this music is available on other music streaming  services. But the fact that you can listen to such old music and that everything is only a few clicks away underlines just how different a music streaming service is to a music store and how abundance of knowledge is never a bad thing.