AOL Closes AOL Music and laid Off the employees

AOL now joins the “Service Shutdown” club along with Google Reader, Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Messenger‘s certain features. According to the tweets from AOL employees, the company is planning to shutdown AOL music & its properties and the employees worked on the division are laid off. AOL Radio program director Thomas Chau said “How sad it was to see the AOL Music teams go, but has announced AOL Radio will stay active in spite of these recent closures”. AOL has officially confirmed the service shutdown and didn’t reveal any information about its replacement. For now, it’s another lay off.

R.I.P! AOL Music!