Musixmatch is an Italian
music data company and platform for users to search and share song
lyrics
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with translations. Musixmatch has 80 million users (50M active users), 12 million songs with their respective lyrics, and 115+ employees.
In 2022, Musixmatch launched Musixmatch Podcasts, a platform for transcription that uses
artificial intelligence
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and community.
Overview
Musixmatch's mobile app displays lyrics 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.
Features
In October 2022, Musixmatch launched Podcast, a platform that generates transcription every day for podcast episodes across different topics and charts, using its
NLP base model architecture, Umberto, to tag keywords such as places, people and topics that are linked to topics on
Wikipedia
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.
History
Musixmatch was originally conceived in early 2007 by Massimo Ciociola, who later founded the company in 2010 in
Bologna
Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...
with Francesco Delfino, Giuseppe Costantino and Gianluca Delli Carri.
Musixmatch went live in July 2010, and by January 2015 had raised US$14.1 million in
angel
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and
venture capital
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funding.
Musixmatch has signed agreements with publishers such as
EMI Publishing,
Warner/Chappell Music,
Universal Music Publishing
Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) is a global Music publisher (popular music), music publishing company and is part of the Universal Music Group. Universal Music Publishing has been ranked the #1 music publisher in market share by Billboar ...
,
Sony ATV,
Kobalt,
Peer Music and
Disney Music.
The company provided
Spotify
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's lyrics
user interface
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on Spotify Desktop until this service was discontinued in May 2016, and again after November 2019 in certain regions. As of November 2021, this feature is available worldwide.
In June 2019, Musixmatch launched a partnership with
Instagram
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, allowing all users to add Lyrics Stickers to any Instagram Music Story.
In September 2019, Marco Paglia, a Senior Product Director at
Uber
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with past experience at
Google
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,
YouTube
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,
Nokia
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, joined Musixmatch as Chief Product Officer.
In July 2022, Musixmatch announced a strategic significant investment from
TPG. As part of the deal,
David Trujillo and
Jacqui Hawwa joined the Musixmatch's
board of directors
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The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulatio ...
. At that time, Gianluca delli Carri left the company to pursue his personal goals.
In February 2022 Giuseppe Costantino left the company to pursue his personal goals although remaining an investor.
On November 30, 2023, Musixmatch announced the appointment of Rio Caraeff, the former Founder and CEO of
Vevo
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, as its Chief Business Officer
On November 4, 2024, Musixmatch announced the appointment of Marco Paglia and Rio Caraeff as Co-Presidents, marking a significant leadership milestone for the company
On March 5, 2025, Canadian rival comppetitor
LyricFind filed an antitrust lawsuit against Musixmatch and its private equity owner TPG Growth through the
. In the document, LyricFind accused Musixmatch of eight federal antitrust violations and five state law claims after the latter service signed an exclusive partnership with
Warner Chappell Music
Warner Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company and a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. Warner Chappell Music's catalog consists of over 1.4 million compositions and 150,000 composers, with offices in over 40 countries.
...
.
[https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/lyricfind-sues-musixmatch-for-alleged-antitrust-violations]
See also
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Genius
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References
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Online music and lyrics databases
2010 software
Italian companies established in 2010
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Companies based in Bologna
Italian music websites