Musixmatch
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Founded | January 21, 2010[1] |
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Headquarters | |
Founder(s) | Massimo Ciociola, Gianluca Delli Carri, Francesco Delfino, Giuseppe Costantino |
CEO | Massimo Ciociola |
Industry | Music |
Employees | 80+[1] |
URL | musixmatch |
Launched | January 21, 2010[1] |
Current status | Active |
Native client(s) on | Windows, Macintosh, Windows Phone, Android, iOS, Google Chrome, Spotify |
Musixmatch is an Italian music data company and platform for users to search and share song lyrics with translations. It is the largest platform of this kind in the world[2] having 73 million users (50 million active users)[3], 14 million lyrics and 80+ employees.[1][4]
Overview
Musixmatch's mobile apps displays lyrics synchronised with music being played.[5] On its native apps, it can scan all the songs in a user's music library, find lyrics, and be used as a music player. On Android, it also supports music streaming services like Spotify, Google Play Music, Deezer, Rhapsody, and YouTube.[6] The company also has global agreements with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Facebook, Google Search and Spotify.[7]
MusixMatch also allows users to contribute lyrics and synchronizations to lyrics in exchange for points that correspond to levels and badges.
If a particular user gets enough points, is a particular level or higher, has one of the highest ranking badges, and contributes enough high quality lyrics and synchronizations, they can apply for Curatorship and become a Lyrics Curator[8]. Curators have extra permissions and are able to get paid for their contributions. Specific curators can get the role of a Specialist. Specialists are Curators but have the permissions similar to an administrator or MusixMatch employee[8].
History
Musixmatch was founded in Bologna in 2010 by Massimo Ciociola,[9] Gianluca Delli Carri, Valerio Paolini, Francesco Delfino, and Giuseppe Costantino. In 2016 Andrea Gaudenzi joined also the company as Chief Revenues Officer and became Board Member in January 2019 [10]
It went live in July 2010 and, as of January 2015, Musixmatch has raised $14.1 million in angel and venture capital funding.[2] Musixmatch has signed agreements with publishers such as EMI Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music,[11] Universal Music Publishing, Sony ATV, Kobalt, Peer Music and Disney Music.[12]
The company previously provided Spotify's Lyrics UI on Spotify Desktop[13] until this was discontinued during May 2016.[14]
In November 2019, Spotify and Musixmatch launched a new partnership by allowing Spotify's users on mobile to see Time Synced Lyrics.[15]
In June 2019, Musixmatch launched a partnership with Instagram for allowing all users to add Lyrics Stickers on any Instagram's Music Stories.[16]
References
- ^ a b c d About musixmatch, musixmatch
- ^ a b "Musixmatch Wants to Be the 'IMDb of Music Lyrics,' Launches Lyric Video Messaging App". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- ^ "Press". about.musixmatch.com. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve. "Song Lyrics App Musixmatch Hacks Its Way To 50M Downloads/30M MAUs, Adds Spotify Support". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- ^ "Featured: Top 10 Karaoke Apps For Android - 12/3/15 | Androidheadlines.com". AndroidHeadlines.com |. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- ^ "Get floating lyrics on Android". CNET. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- ^ "Musixmatch Business Solutions". about.musixmatch.com. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ a b "Become a curator". about.musixmatch.com. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve. "Lyrics Database musiXmatch Raises Further $3.7M, Says Android Has Led The Way To 10M Downloads". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- ^ "Musixmatch's Company Information". Crunchbase.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Musixmatch (2016-10-20). "What is Musixmatch?". Musixmatch Blog. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- ^ "Musixmatch for Publishers". about.musixmatch.com. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ Wright, Mic (2015-02-26). "Spotify Desktop Update Adds Full Lyrics from MusixMatch". The Next Web. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
- ^ "Lyrics Are Gone From Spotify (For Now)". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
- ^ "Spotify confirms it's testing real-time lyrics synced to music". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "Instagram one-ups TikTok with karaoke lyrics". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-11-13.