For some time now you’ve been able to read the lyrics of tracks while playing them on Spotify, via a swipe-up panel on the Now Playing screen.
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Google wins latest round of its legal battle with Genius
In 2019, lyrics site Genius sued Google and LyricFind, alleging that they had copied and pasted its lyrics to use in Google ‘OneBox’ results.
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The RAP Act aims to limit use of music lyrics in US court cases
The Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act) has been reintroduced by Democrat congressmen Jamaal Bowman and Hank Johnson.
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BELEM seeks publishers and songwriters for lyric translations
BELEM is the European Union-funded consortium announced last December with €2m of funding to explore lyric translation.
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EU-funded project aims to ‘democratise and monetise’ access to lyrics
LyricFind has long been banging the drum for translated lyrics, especially in recent years when non-English tracks have become global hits.
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Stable Diffusion used to turn lyrics into AI-driven videos
Video Killed the Radio Star… Diffusion transcribes lyrics from YouTube videos and turns them into prompts for Stable Diffusion images.
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Apple Music for Artists gets new profile and lyrics features
Apple has added more features, including a profile section where musicians can create a customised bio by answering a series of short questions.
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Kobalt to launch a collection of music NFTs based on lyrics
While artists and labels have hogged the headlines when it comes to launching music NFTs, publishers are exploring how they can get involved too.
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Deezer adds in-app lyrics translation to its service
Real-time lyrics are increasingly standard across the major streaming services, but Deezer is hoping to steal a march on its rivals by also offering translated lyrics.
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Spotify takes lyrics feature global and reveals merch data
Spotify is taking its synchronised lyrics feature global, having launched it in 26 countries last year. As of yesterday, the feature is live globally in Spotify’s mobile, desktop, console and TV apps. The company’s partner is lyrics firm Musixmatch, which has a long (if not always harmonious) history with the streaming service.
Musixmatch was one of the launch partners when Spotify added external apps to its desktop client back in late 2011, and its app was one of the most popular on the platform. When the ‘App Finder’ feature was retired early in 2015, Spotify integrated Musixmatch’s lyrics into its service, but they were removed in May 2016 after the two companies fell out.
“We regret the end of this partnership… we will not allow anybody to ignore our business model,” was Musixmatch’s comment at the time. By June 2020, when Spotify launched its synchronised lyrics feature with Musixmatch – perhaps nudged by Apple Music having trumpeted time-synced lyrics as a USP for its service – the business models had seemingly aligned again.
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Lyrics-focused Musixmatch gets into the distribution game
We know music/tech firm Musixmatch mainly for its services relating to lyrics: it has worked with the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Instagram on various integrations of lyrics down […]
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LyricFind expands its Brazilian business with Abramus deal
Brazil is already an important market for LyricFind: in fact, it’s the fifth-largest territory in terms of business for the lyrics-focused company. Now it’s hoping to build on that with […]