“Yahoo Inc. is expanding its online music section to include the lyrics of 400,000 songs, hoping to strike a chord with Web surfers looking for a more reliable alternative to Internet sites that publish the words without the permission of the copyright owners,” Michael Liedtke reports for The Associated Press.
“The Sunnyvale-based company is touting the free service to be unveiled Tuesday as the Web’s largest legally licensed database of lyrics,” Liedtke reports.
“The database and licensing deals were cobbled together over the past two years by Gracenote, a digital media management specialist. The Emeryville-based company, formerly known as CDDB, is best known for developing technology that automatically recognizes the tracks on compact discs – a feature that is included in Apple Inc.’s widely used iTunes software,” Liedtke reports.
“The 400,000 song lyrics included in Yahoo’s database span about 9,000 different artists, ranging from old standbys such as The Beatles and Bob Dylan to more recent stars like Radiohead and Beyonce,” Liedtke reports. “Nearly 100 music publishers are contributing song lyrics, including industry heavyweights BMG Music Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner/Chappell Music.”
Liedtke reports, “Yahoo is hoping its database stimulates even more traffic on its music service, which is already the most popular on the Web. Yahoo music attracted 22 million U.S. visitors last month to rank it ahead of AOL music (17.5 million visitors) and MySpace music (14.8 million visitors), according to comScore Media Metrix.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Adam W.” for the heads up.]
We’d like to see lyrics available via Apple’s iTunes Store. Would you?
Yahoo! is Apple Mac friendly, right? So any move they make, I am suppose to be kinda OK with…right?
I’d like to see lyrics displayed on the iPod screen (or AppleTV) as the song plays, similarly to karaoke.
To answer MDN’s question, not really.
“hoping to strike a chord”
That joke was flat. Naturally, he’s not too sharp and his writing is in big treble.
Apple can top that by not only including lyrics, but Garageband files and song sheets.
Then we can have all sorts of wacky fun altering the songs.
Make vocals sound like Mickey Mouse for instance.
Tripp:
If you have lyrics entered for a song within iTunes (Get Info -> under the Lyrics tab), then you can view them while a song is playing on your iPod the same way you cycle through the slider and album art – press the center button a couple of times.
– Jeremy Avalon
who cares?
if you can’t understand the lyrics, then just pull the plug, you’re just taking up space.
Hey, now we can read Hillary’s favorite Timbaaland lyrics….
MW:low, as in ‘yes, that was’
MDN
Didn’t there use to be emoticons?
Or did I just misplace them……
PR flackery at it’s best: 400,000 lyrics by 9,000 “different” artists?
Whod’a thunk each of them wrote 44,000-and-change songs.
This must be the same moron who extolls the virtures of a new house that features bi-directional stairs.
Hmmmm, Yahoo is a L…o……s…..e…..r again. Found this on their internet radio section.
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They just have NNN OOOOOO clue.
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Dashboard and Yahoo! Widgets widget coders: Start your engines.
I’m with ya, Think Different, you are no doubt a kindered spirit, but do the math again.
Whoops.
I think you mean 44 and change.
“Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the… uh, no that’s not it”
“Excuse me while I kiss this guy… hmmmm, doesn’t sound right”
“There’s a bathroom on the right… oh forget it! I’m going to Yahoo”
(yeah right).
If you can understand the lyrics you’re too old.
I mean, if it’s too loud, youre too old. That’s it.
I like that Creedence Clearwater Revival song that says, “there’s a bathroom on the right”. Catchy tune.
It’s called being prolific. Jerk.
Thorin! Dang it!
“B-B-B-Bennie is in debt.” BENNY!
Yahoo music service is the most popular om the web? Am I missing something? Isn’t it iTunes?
Jesus.. can this font possibly be LARGER!? Yikes. Looks terrible.
@Buster: iTunes is the most popular music store on the “internet”, but since you can’t browse to the iTunes store it isn’t on the “web”.
@MDN: I just keep the Pear Lyrics dashboard widget running at all times.
Yahoo has been coming out with some really nice software for the Mac.
Let’s not gforget my fav Marvin Gaye song….
Ain’t no shoe shines in this mall.
It’s like war when she’s away
Without a doubt! This is why I love competition – the lyrics SHOULD HAVE been a no-brainer, but Apple needs urging forward just like everyone else to keep pushing the bounds. I’m glad to see Yahoo keep trying to bring the fight – but I hope Apple responds soon, as they’re who I actually use for music.
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