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Turning Lyrics into a Business: musiXMatch's Next Generation Lyrics API

Recently, I attended a Lorenzo Jovanotti concert in Perugia, Italy. I’m a fan of the innovative Italian rapper for over a decade. Even though he sings in Italian, over time I have come to know most of his lyrics. Not that I know what they all mean, but I know them. At the concert, thousands of us were singing with him at the top of our lungs – lyrics committed to memory through repetition.

Then there are the songs I don’t know, but I THINK I know. When my brother was four, he used to toddle around singing More than a Woman by the Bee Gees – thinking it was Bald Headed Woman. We knew it wasn’t, but it was more entertaining to let him sing it that way.

When I want to look up lyrics today, I do it rather sloppily. Like most people, I go to Google, type in the band/lyrics and spend the next two hours slogging through the garbage Google dredges up. When I try and find a song on Spotify or iTunes and I can’t remember much about it, I search on key words, genre or lyrics I remember. I usually get the proverbial hand – or ‘try searching again with different terms’. I don’t like it, but I have come to accept this.

“Not many industries in our world have suffered so much disruption yet still exist, as the music industry has,” said Jeff Coe, serial entrepreneur and independent advisor in digital content. “That’s because music can never be superseded or replaced by technology, it’s just the way we consume it that has changed.”

According to Coe, with disruption comes innovation, and the music industry has spawned some of the most innovative technologies currently used. “The music industry and everyone inside of it have been forced to explore all the cracks and corners of the music world to find value for the consumer and clever ways to consume and experience music so that the money wheels keep turning.”

Coe is right. The music industry is a source of constant discussion and continual innovation – Shazam, Spotify, Pandora, Songkick – not to mention the grand daddy of them all,  iTunes sitting on top of the heap with Apple working hard to keep the throne when it comes to music and content.

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musiXmatch Lyrics app launched on Iphone and Android, fans gain access to the world’s largest official lyrics database

Here’s an interesting fact for you – people search for ‘lyrics’ online in the US more often than they do for ‘sex’. musiXmatch brought this fact to our attention, and upon closer inspection it certainly seems to be true – indeed, ‘lyrics’ is the most common search term on Google in the US after ‘Facebook’.

With that in mind, musiXmatch must be onto a winner as the so-called ‘world’s largest official lyrics database’, and today it has announced dedicated mobile appsfor iOS and Android devices.

musiXmatch has over 5 million officially licensed lyrics available via its API, and it delivers “100% licensed lyrics to any kind of music app or service”.

It enables developers and music fans anywhere in the world to harness the power of online lyrics, meaning it can be used for third-party services such as radio streaming platforms, video services, mobile audio devices, apps, and OEM manufacturers.

Now available for both iOS and Android, musiXmatch Lyrics uses music-matching algorithms to identify lyrics instantly that can then be matched with a user’s mobile music library.

Music fans can also search for lyrics by artist, song name, or specific keywords, as well as share and discover discography information for many albums and artists.

The app is simple and straight forward to use. I searched for a number of different artists and songs, across multiple genres and eras and it was pretty comprehensive. You can also share lyrics across all the usual social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and email.

Max Ciociola, CEO and Founder of musiXmatch, said:

“By creating a free solution for instantly matching your music library with officially licensed lyrics, musiXmatch is aiming to simplify the end user experience around lyrics for music fans everywhere. We hope that by seeing musiXmatch Lyrics in action, developers will be inspired to create their own lyrics-driven experiences using our award-winning API.”

The company has raised $3.7m in VC funding to date, and earlier this year, musiXmatch announced partnerships with BMG, Kobalt, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony ATV Music and more.

Courtesy of : http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/08/16/musixmatch-lyrics-app-launched-fans-gain-access-to-the-worlds-largest-official-lyrics-database/