Created in 2002 by the couple Ana Letícia Torres and Daniel Lafraia, they used the PHP language with MySQL database to initially create a small base of lyrics of songs.
Over time, other content was added including autographs, biographies, and discography.
In April 2006 the magazine Info Exame classified the plugins as a 206 of the best software on the planet.
Since mid-2012 the site is partner of R7 the news portal of Rede Record.
[2] In 2016, Vagalume launched Vagalume FM, a Brazilian music streaming platform to compete with Spotify and Deezer, and the application has already been downloaded more than 10000 times on Google Play, and the site's own application has already been downloaded more than 10 million times.