Music Xray is a music tech company based in New York City. The company's official name is Platinum Blue Music Intelligence Inc but it began operating under the name "Music Xray" in July 2009.
The company is billed as "an online platform where artists submit their songs to industry professionals". Its technology, Quant Metrics, and predictive analytics help industry talent hunters, songwriters and performers find each other. The tech tools allow good songs as measured by what industry executives tend to prefer, rise to the top. Musicians pay a fee to submit their music to industry professionals, often more than $10, in exchange for a guaranteed listen and response. Some professionals offer in-depth critiques. Others provide a simple selection or rejection notice. Musicians, songwriters, and fans can join the site for free. Professionals can join the site either by being invited by the company or through an application and approval process.
Music Xray's list of claimed success stories is found on their site.
The firm uses
statistical software
Statistical software are specialized computer programs for analysis in statistics and econometrics.
Open-source
* ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management
* ADMB – a software ...
to analyze musical compositions. According to an article in ''
The New Yorker
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'', the firm claims to be able to predict hit songs with eighty-percent accuracy.
[Malcolm Gladwell, "The Formula", '']The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...
'', October 16, 2006 After analysis, the firm sometimes offers broad suggestions for improvement of a song's chances to be offered a deal by the industry. Music Xray was founded by
Mike McCready
Michael David McCready (born April 5, 1966) is an American musician who serves as the lead guitarist for the rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of the band. McCready wa ...
and Tracie Reed both formerly of
Polyphonic HMI in
Barcelona
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, Spain.
On June 5, 2010, the company launched a song to opportunity (S
2O) matching system that uses advanced music analysis software to alert musicians when their songs contain the musical characteristics that an industry professional is seeking.
See also
*
List of music software
This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For streaming services such as iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, ...
References
External links
Platinum Blue Music IntelligenceMusic XrayMusic Xray Song to Opportunity Matching
Music companies of the United States
Companies based in New York City
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