Category archives: Lyrics

Pandora Adds Detailed Song Credits As Recording Academy Plots ‘Behind the Record’ Campaign

Pandora has added full detailed song credits to users across all tiers of its service on the web and on new desktop apps for Mac and Windows. Starting today, the first few credits are visible on a song’s Pandora details page. To view the full list of credits, users click…

Apple Music Has Team Of People Writing Down Song Lyrics

Apple is known for its attention to detail, but this revelation takes that to a whole new level. Instead of using less-than-perfect lyric services to provide lyrics alongside its music streams, Apple Music has "a team of people listening to music and transcribing the lyrics." The full quote from a…

‘If we want to build value in this industry, we have to tell the real stories of how music is made.’

Genius’ Director of Content Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Milch discusses music industry bugbears and addresses the Google dispute
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20 Most Searched For Lyrics Summer 2019

[UPDATED] “Old Town Road” may have been the surprise mega-hit of the summer, but the award for most searched lyrics of 2019 globally goes to another newcomer. While the most searched for lyrics of the summer in the US belong to “Old Town Road,” by the end of summer Billie…

3 Ways The Lines Between Songwriter, Music Producer Are Blurring

With technology advancements running rampant in the industry, it has become incredibly easy for any artist with a laptop to create and release their own music. In this piece, we look at three major ways in which songwriters are edging in on territory traditional held by producers. ______________________________ Guest post…

How To Add Lyrics To Instagram Stories [Have You Read Hypebot’s Most Popular Post So Far This Year?]

Move over Spotify and Apple Music, Hypebot’s most-read post of 2019 is about Instagram. Written by our friend Kevin Cornell, TuneCore Editor Content & Blog, Adding Lyrics To Your Instagram Stories offers practical how-to advice for a fairly new feature on one of social media’s fasting growing platforms, Instagram. Read…

Publishing Lawsuit Against Pandora From Wixen Music Raises Questions Regarding Lyric Licensing

Pandora is facing down a long-expected lawsuit from Wixen Music Publishing over the streaming platform’s alleged infringing of lyrics in songs represented by Wixen. This could be bad news for Pandora, what was made aware of the problem in early 2018 and has thus far failed to take corrective action….

Google To Add Attribution In Wake Of Lyrics Controversy

Google announced that it is adding attribution to the song lyrics it publishes in search results. The move came after Genius.com accused the tech giant and third party provider LyricFind of scraping lyrics off its site. "Here’s something you might not know: music publishers often don’t have digital copies of…

LyricFind Disputes Genius Lyric Theft Claim, Challenges WSJ Reporting

The blockbuster Wall Street journal piece in which lyric site Genius offered some pretty convincing proof that Google and its primary lyric providers like LyricFind had been stealing its lyrics is being strongly disputed by LyricFind. Here is the full statement (bold added: LyricFind Offers Corrections to Inaccuracies in Wall…