LyricFind signs a global deal with Music Story, deepening Music Story’s role as astrategic partner as LyricFind continues to expand in markets worldwide.

This deal expands their partnership to include Music Story’s ability to distribute LyricFind’s content to a wider audience.

Toronto, Canada | December 13, 2023 — LyricFind, the leading company in lyric licensing and data solutions, and Music Story, the global leader in music metadata, today announced an extension of their multi-year relationship, furthering Music Story’s role as a key partner of LyricFind’s continued growth in global markets.

The expanded agreement allows Music Story to help advance LyricFind’s commercial reach by selling the company’s services to customers in the United States and globally. Prospective customers can also tap into Music Story’s U.S. and international metadata services.

“After seven years of proven success, we knew it was the right time to expand our partnership and allow for new growth opportunities,” said Darryl Ballantyne, Founder & CEO, LyricFind. “By making Music Story an extension of LyricFind’s services, we’re taking a major step forward in unlocking the power of metadata to help more people discover and enjoy the music they love with lyrics while ensuring that songwriters and copyright holders are fairly compensated for their incredible work.”

Key benefits of the expanded partnership include:

• Integration Services - The collaboration combines the best of LyricFind and Music Story: specific data deliveries, coverage enhancement and catalog operations like disambiguation, matching, or enrichment.
• Customized Metadata - Essential to creating and delivering immersive, differentiated music experiences from Music Story, such as imagery, biographies and related licenses, performer, album, and recording metadata, as well as charts, credits and audio descriptors, fully integrated with the LyricFind content including word-by-word synchronized lyrics, lyric translations, and LyricIQ.
• Greater Confidence - The rights and clearances customers need to share content with greater assurance including LyricFind’s licenses for more than nine million lyrics.

“Today’s announcement is an incredible milestone in the evolution of our longstanding partnership with LyricFind,” said Jean-Luc Biaulet, Founder and CEO, Music Story. “The collaboration and co-innovation between Music Story and LyricFind pushes the boundaries of what both platforms can do, and benefits all our current and future customers.”

LyricFind’s primary purpose is ensuring that songwriters and rights holders are fairly compensated for their song lyrics, and driving innovation in the music experience through lyrics. The longstanding partnership between LyricFind and Music Story forged in 2016 is a demonstration of this promise.

About Music Story

Music Story is the ultra-responsive, quality and customer-centric global leader in music metadata. It provides both the deep engineering expertise and customized metadata essential to creating and delivering immersive, differentiated music experiences. Headquartered in Lille, France, Music Story's international team of engineers provide technical resources where and when they're needed. Its music editors and writers work in 40 countries to create compelling, differentiated content in 13 languages. Follow @music_story on LinkedIn and X and learn more at www.music-story.com