History of Sputnikmusic

The following is a likely unbiased history of sputnikmusic.

See: Drama

2005
01-01-05 - Sputnikmusic.com launched by Jeremy Ferweda (mx) as an offshoot of the Mxtabs network. At this point, the site was simply a source of amateur content.

12-27-05 - Mxtabs announces its closure

2006
06-01-06 - Sputnikmusic becomes its own entity as mxtabs closes. It was at this point that the focus of Sputnik began to shift toward providing professional content, with a news page added, and a stratification system implemented for reviewers.

11-21-06 - Brand New Releases The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, one of the most reviewed/rated albums on Sputnikmusic.

2008
07-07-08 - SowingSeason joins Sputnikmusic

2010
04-01-10 - MichaelJordan joins Sputnikmusic

Unknown date: Image posting functionality removed from the review site after numerous shock images spammed by MichaelJordan.

2012
11-28-12 - HillaryClitTounge joins Sputnikmusic.

2013
02-02-13 - Sach first joins Sputnikmusic.

06-18-13 - Kanye West releases Yeezus, an extremely polarizing and controversial record for its time. One of, if not the most, reviewed/rated hip hop albums on Sputnikmusic.

06-28-13 - Nercotica demoted from mod after having a breakdown in which he posted a troll review about pretending to be a walrus and feverishly masturbating in a tub.

07-24-13 - HillaryClitounge's Yeezus review published, with one of the worst pos to negative ratio's seen on the website. As of August 2020, it has 19 positives out of 110 negatives. It would end up being Hillary's last review as of August 2020.

2014
04-01-14 - The Great Server Shitshow begins and with it, the decline of Sputnikmusic as users migrate to Reddit and rateyourmusic due to the site troubles.

06-01-14 - The Great Server Shitshow ends, however the damage is done and Sputnukmusic has lost nearly 50% of its active userbase.

06-09-14 - Undertakerpt posts his Chocolate Starfish review, considered by many to be the best humor/satirical review on the site. Boosted Sputnik morale after the Great Server Shitshow.

10-12-14 - Sinternet joins Sputnikmusic.com

2015
03-15-15 - Kendrick Lamar releases To Pimp a Butterfly, considered by many to be the greatest project of the 2010's. Was voted #1 in the Users’ Top 100 Albums of the 2010's list.

2016
03-10-16 - DinosaurJones "WWE General Discussion" thread is posted, receiving a gargantuan 3700 comments.

07-13-16 - Torotonian posts the "Trump Voters" thread. trying to start a friendly political debate ahead of the then-upcoming 2016 United States Presidental Election. This thread receives over 1800 comments. The word "fuck" is said 226 times, while the word "Nazi" is said 80 times. Ctrl+F any insult or swear word and you will find plenty of examples.

11-01-16 - Sputnik moderators start asking users for input on creating a set of user-established rules. This would result in the attempted Sputstitution by users sach and futures, which failed and resulted in the sach account being banned.

2017
04-03-17 - Snide releases his debut album, Distortion World, under the name Black Malachite. It receives a 1.6 rating from Sputnik users and is soon after deleted.

11-12-17 - Jessie Lacy of Sputnik's favorite band, Brand New, accused of raping a 15 old. The thread goes nuclear.

2018
06-14-18 - Staff member macman76 posts his 2018 World Cup thread, receiving over 2300 comments.

2019
10-13-19 - oltnabrick posts the [https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=189125 "trump impeachement?" thread], which garners over 1500 comments and eventually becomes a political dick measuring contest.

2020
06-24-20 - JefferyBigglestein joins Sputnikmusic.com

07-15-20 - The Great War begins with the "SINTERNET DECLARES WAR" thread.

07-18-20 - JefferyBigglestein creates the Sputnikmusic Wiki. While in its first week it was used as a canvas for shitposting/flame wars, it slowly gained an active userbase that helped edit, create, and review pages.

07-25-20 - Staff member mynameischan publishes his review of Taylor Swift - Folklore. Despite the hype for the album, he would give the album a 3.2 rating, pissing many twitter stans off. Taylor Swift fans would bombard Sputnik to protest this (to no avail).

08-03-20 - An eventful day in the Great War. JefferyBigglestein's review of BTS's Map of the Soul: 7 goes viral on BTS twitter, causing Kpop stans and BTS ARMY'S to invade Sputnikmusic (and promptly be laughed off the site by both Biggle supporters and Biggle haters). Bigglestein declares war on BTS.

08-11-20 - Sinternet announces his surrender, marking the end of the Great War. The Biggle Boys are the victors.

08-13-20 - Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek accused of rape, drama ensures when Toolpeth182 and DoofDoof start a victim blaming crusade, saying its the rape victims fault for being too scared to fight back. The thread gets bombarded with so many comments in a row that it causes the site UI to glitch.

08-14-20 - Mods nuke the Mark Kozelek thread, DoofDoof account banned.

10-06-20 - The 2020 Sputdown. Sputnik goes offline for 36 hours due to server issues.

10-10-20 - JefferyBiggglestein's 2/5 review for Converge - Jane Doe is deleted by mods. Review was 10/27 pos's and 200+ comments in just 4 hours. This led to the creation of the "THEY TRYNA SILENCE ME" thread which would be feature and see 550+ comments.

10-11-20 - Pink Floyd wins the Sput Royale, beating out Unwound in the final.

10-13-20 - JeffreyBigglestein announces the creation of a second Sputstitution and the Sputnik Writer's Union. Bigglestein announces a strike.

10-17-20 - SowingSeason pos's Bigglestein's review of Deftones - Ohms, the strike ends after 4 days.

11-07-20 - Troll account "DeadGeorgeFloyd" spams racist comments in several threads, and harrasses/threatens the user Darius The Imposter. "DeadGeorgeFloyd" is clowned on by the user DavezillaMP3 before being banned (along with two other alt. accounts).