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What is Musixmatch?


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 having 80 million users (50 million active users), 8 million lyrics, and 100+ employees

Musixmatch's mobile app displays lyrics time-synchronized with the music being played. Its native apps 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. The company also has global agreements with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Facebook, Google Search, and Spotify.

Features

Musixmatch has a public database where lyrics are displayed. Users can sign up and contribute lyrics, translations, and synchronization of lyrics to the audio of a song, for points that correspond to a user level. The points have no redeemable value, but are a marker of the users' contributions and impact made within the site.
Lyrics are distributed to digital (streaming) services, such as Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Facebook, Google Search, and Spotify. A number of these services exclusively use Musixmatch as their source for lyrics.

Notable users are given the role of a Lyrics Curator, where they take on the role of an editor. They are able to do specific tasks that Musixmatch requires assistance with, and are able to receive a reward for contributing. Exceptional curators are eligible to become a Specialist, where they receive higher rewards and have permissions similar to an administrator. Curators and Specialists are given extra rewards for quality-assurance work on users. In order to keep quality high, Musixmatch's employees or Specialists might lock lyrics to prevent edits when necessary, similar to Wikipedia.

History

Musixmatch was founded in Bologna in 2010 by Massimo Ciociola.

Musixmatch went live in July 2010, and as of January 2015 had raised $14.1 million in angel and venture capital funding. Musixmatch has signed agreements with publishers such as EMI Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Universal Music Publishing, Sony ATV, Kobalt, Peer Music and Disney Music.

The company provided Spotify's lyrics user interface on Spotify Desktop until this service was discontinued in May 2016. In November 2019, Musixmatch and Spotify reinstated their partnership, allowing Spotify's users to see lyrics (time-synced, or not) in certain regions. As of November 2021, this feature is available worldwide.


In June 2019, Musixmatch launched a partnership with Instagram, allowing all users to add Lyrics Stickers to any Instagram Music Story.
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