Hundreds of thousands of songs thought deleted in huge MySpace mistake unearthed

Nearly half a million songs that were thought to have been lost when MySpace accidentally deleted its archive of tracks have been rediscovered. The files – which are now available to listen to – were kept by coincidence and have been shared with the world once again. But they only represent the tiniest sliver of the total number of tracks that were deleted during the accidental clearance. Together they amount to less than one per cent of the estimated 50 million tracks that disappeared during a server migration at MySpace. We'll tell you what's true.