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  • 2012-02-01

    Here we go with new musiXmatch web site

    Just 18 months young, and we’ve just returned home through the snow from our 2nd Midem. 

    We wanted to say how excited we are with the buzz around musiXmatch. With our 2,6 mln app users, we have built a damn good database of lyrics covering more than 30 countries and 18 languages. But size doesn’t matter if you don’t have quality and that’s why we love feedback, especially positive ones telling us how great our service actually is. Our mobile app is available on Android, iOS, Nokia, and Windows and our desktop app is available for both Mac and now Windows too. We’re adding thousand of new users every day, so we think we’re doing something right and making people happy…. but this is just the beginning…

    You may have noticed that we just launched our new website. The site features a fresh new look, easy navigation, and all the information consumers, partners, and developers need. 

    We received a lot of feedback in all this months on how to improve the site and one theme was for a more consumer focused approach. So, for all you non tecky geeks out there, less jargon to figure out! 

    We always said that musiXmatch is The world’s largest Lyrics Catalog so we have included a search bar where you can type in any lyric to any song and from our 6M large database and best in class matching ratios, we’ll display the song you’re looking for, instantly. No need to go Google and cross your fingers. LOL

    And as always, we continuously look to improve and everyone’s feedback is welcome.

    Thanks to everyone’s support and keep on singing!

    Max Ciociola
    CEO & Founder, musiXmatch

     

  • 2011-11-16

    Former BMG Publishing CEO Nicholas Firth joins musiXmatch’s Advisory Board as Chairman

    Nicholas Firth   musiXmatch has appointed former BMG Music Publishing CEO   and chairman Nicholas Firth as chairman of its advisory board.

      The move comes as the company announces it has signed    up all of the major publishers to its site after closing a deal    with Warner/Chappell and EMI Music Publishing earlier this  month.

    musiXmatch is building a fully licensed database of lyrics that  other websites and mobile apps can plug into via its API. It matches the metadata submitted by publishers to the 6m+ lyrics on its database and presents this to third parties as a white label solution. Lyric searches can be treated by these third parties as a standalone proposition or as a value-add on, an existing music service.

    Firth’s career in music publishing began in 1962, where he worked for the Chappell Group, then a division of PolyGram BV, culminating with simultaneous positions as President of Chappell International and Vice President of the PolyGram Publishing Division, which he held from 1981-1985. Subsequently, Mr. Firth was a shareholder and CEO of Music Theatre International.

    His grandfather and great uncle, Louis and Max Dreyfus owned Chappell & Company in New York and London.

    In addition to his duties at BMG, Firth is involved negotiating music publishing industry agreements in the U.S., Europe and the Far East.

    Nicholas Firth serves on the Boards of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), the International Music Publishers Association (IMPA) and the Third Street Music School Settlement.