Music Ally

Today sees the announcement of the 15 startups chosen to showcase their wares in the MidemNet Lab initiative at MIDEM in January. They were chosen by Music Ally and a team of industry judges from entries for the contest, with the nominees all getting space in the MidemNet Lab section of the show.

And the 15 selected startups are… *rustles envelope*

Aviary, Awdio, BandCentral, Band Metrics, DigiClef, GoMix, Kickstarter, Pops Worldwide, Radionomy, Silence, Media, Songkick, Streamjam, Thesixtyone, Tracksandfields, TuneWiki.

Full details can be found further down this post, along with links to their websites.

“The first edition of MidemNet Lab is extremely encouraging,” says MIDEM director Dominique Leguern. “Thanks to a selection process designed by MIDEM, involving a call for entries and selection by a jury of entrepreneurs, we have succeeded in unearthing some very innovative projects from all around the world. It is extremely exciting to put these 15 companies in contact with the wider music industry.”

Congratulations to the 15 selected companies. In case you’re wondering, they’re not all on our Startups of 2009 list, which was published yesterday. To avoid blabbing anyone’s stealth project, I was waiting for this announcement – those that are missing will be added this week.

THE FINAL 15

Aviary/Myna (USA) – www.aviary.com/tools/myna
Myna, the new audio editor by Aviary, is a free online artists’ tool. This creative suite allows users to create, arrange and remix music tracks and audio clips, composed from Aviary’s library of 3,000 loops and beats and/or user-recorded tracks. They are currently working with artists, like Major Lazer, to run remix contests, allowing musicians to engage with their fans on a creative level.

Awdio (France) – www.awdio.com
Awdio is the first internet platform enabling you to listen to clubs and venues in real-time from all around the world. With more than 5000 events broadcasted every month from more than 150 clubs and venues worldwide, Awdio aims to become an alternative to music piracy by offering a real-time music experience, with both an ad-supported model, and a premium-paid model.

BandCentral (UK) – www.bandcentral.com
BandCentral is revolutionising band management for a new music industry by helping bands to manage themselves online. BandCentral gives bands their very own online ‘Band HUB’ with all the tools they need to communicate with each other, store files and music, merchandise, manage gigs, money, fans and contacts, and everything else associated with their band in one central, secure and instantly accessible place.

Band Metrics (USA) – www.bandmetrics.com
Band Metrics is a data analytics and decision support system for the music industry that provides comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analytics with in-depth geographical reporting on social, radio and fan segmentation.

DigiClef/Release Consulting (UK) – www.digiclef.com
DigiClef is a brand new way of retailing sheet music via Smartphones. Our mobile apps display legal professional quality tabs with touch-sensitive controls that allow musicians to adjust the tempo of the music easily. DigiClef unlocks the value held in sheet musical arrangements, packages it in state-of-the-art technology, and then delivers it directly to musicians on their iPhones.

GoMix (UK) – www.gomix.com
GoMix is an interactive music format that lets users create personalised remixes of major artist’s songs. Distributed via social networks and digital album bundles, GoMix brings labels new revenue and promotional opportunities through advertising and digital retail products. In 2009 GoMix has been adopted by a succession of major artists and advertisers. 2010 will see very significant evolution, adding virtual goods, a mobile platform and a game changing User Generated Content approach.

Kickstarter (USA) – www.kickstarter.com
Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects that is radically different from traditional funding channels. Kickstarter is not about investment or philanthropy. The aim is to let creative people raise money for their projects by connecting directly with fans who receive exclusive access and rewards in exchange for their patronage. Kickstarter launched in April 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Pops Worldwide (Vietnam) – www.pops.vn
Pops develops, aggregates and distributes media content, delivering it through cross-media platforms in Vietnam. They offer digital music to mobile users through a range of wireless value-added services (WVAS) platforms over mobile networks and the Internet. Pops markets its services online and offline through telecom operators, as well as through non-operator channels, such as online stores, handset vendor partnerships and mobile retail chains. Pops launched the first digital music kiosk throughout Vietnam.

Radionomy (Belgium) – www.radionomy.com
With Radionomy, everyone can create their own web radio for their community. It’s easy, free and fun. It’s easy because Radionomy provides free software to create and manage the radio, vast music, jingles and content libraries. The radio creator can integrate his own music, creations & audio content. It’s free. Radionomy covers streaming and rights, and inserts 4 minutes of advertising in the radio to cover its costs.

Silence Media (UK) – www.silence-media.com
Silence is a new advertising network for the entertainment industry. It offers its clients a media-buying model for video banner-advertising called cost-per engagement, which means they only pay when people rollover and expand their ads. Silence works with leading European and American websites. Its clients include major record labels Sony, Universal, and EMI, and leading independent record labels the Beggars Group and PIAS.

Songkick (UK) – www.songkick.com
Songkick is the home for live music online. Fans can track their favorite artists and we email them tour alerts with links to buy tickets. After the gig, they can see and share photos, videos, posters and setlists. Songkick is the largest database of concert information in the world with over 1.2 million concerts from 1960 to the present day.

Streamjam/The Electric Sheep Company (USA) – www.streamjam.com
The Electric Sheep Company’s latest product, StreamJam is a free application for putting live concerts and music events online. Fans need no plug-ins or download to enter 3D virtual clubs, meet other fans, dance, watch, hear and interact with their favorite artists. Event holders, at no cost, generate new revenue from virtual goods, tips and tickets.

Thesixtyone (USA) – www.thesixtyone.com
Thesixtyone is a fun way to explore new music: artists submit their work, but rather than allowing a boardroom to decide what’s cool, the listeners do. Thesixtyone helps to discover new artists, earn reputation and unlock achievements for recommending songs that other may enjoy. On Thesixtyone, experiencing new music becomes spontaneous, engaging and trackable.

Tracksandfields (Germany) – www.tracksandfields.com
Tracks and Fields is the web service that connects musicians, producers and the music industry to work on new projects. Artists from all over the world find the right people to write produce or remix music and collaborate through dedicated tools. Companies post briefings for remixes, film, game scores or production jobs, receive custom-made pitches and hire professionals with a few clicks. Tracksandfields.com has been in beta through 2009 and officially launches on the MIDEM 2010.

TuneWiki (USA) – www.tunewiki.com
TuneWiki is the internationally award-winning social media music player with the largest legally-licensed lyrics database in the world. TuneWiki is revolutionizing the mobile music experience by combining subtitled lyrics with music and music videos, lyrics translations into over 40 languages, real-time mapping, geographical charting and social networking. Our lyrics centric mobile games create new music monetisation opportunities to music owners.

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