I’ll just say it. Music Xray is hands down, far-and-away, no contest the best early stage song and talent discovery platform for music industry professionals. It’s not even close. If you are an industry professionals genuinely seeking to discover new, high-potential songs and talent and you aren’t using Music Xray to help you do it, [...]
That’s right. I don’t think you should spend any more than it absolutely takes to achieve your goals (land the sort of deals you’re pursing). The shorter we can make the path and the more we can reduce costs, the more invaluable Music Xray will be to our community of musicians. Ultimately, we care most [...]
Music Xray has been getting a little buzz recently. Given that I’m the public face of the company and that I’m the one out there doing a lot of the evangelizing, I get personified with the company. That’s my job and it humanizes a business organization which by its definition is just a legal entity. [...]
Since February alone, more than 3500 songs and acts have been selected for opportunities on Music Xray. From my understanding, the ratio of submissions to deals is more than 10 times better than at online submission sites. Music Xray distinguishes itself by being an A&R platform – a site dedicated to finding the most appropriate [...]
Announces release of API to enable music sites everywhere to offer song-to-opportunity matching feature to their users SoundCloud to manage all Music Xray audio June, 22 2011 – New York / Berlin Over 1200 music industry professionals use Music Xray to discover high-potential songs and emerging talent, a task referred to as A&R (artist and [...]
A new fund will be making small ($30k to $50k) investments over the coming months in bands & acts sourced and de-risked via Music Xray. To be elegible for these funds, industry professionals must have sourced their project on Music Xray, present data (such as results from Music Xray’s stats page, Music Xray focus group results and other information) to support the potential of a viable business opportunity that will begin to generate returns within 6 months.
More than 850 songs have been selected for real industry opportunities in the past 60 days alone! These deals include placement in major Hollywood movie soundtracks, major TV network theme songs, major and cable network series placement, reality show auditions and placement, radio station playlist adds, magazine features, blog features, publishing deals, management deals, production deals and sample deals.
We’ve been enabling industry professionals to divert their money to charity for over a year. Honestly, not all of them send their money to charities. In fact, a lot don’t but we’re seeing increasing numbers of them do it. At some point we may display a badge on the profile pages of those that send their fees to charity. For now, we just quietly suggest it as an option and it seems to be working.
Layers is seeking an experienced executive to serve as our company’s Chief Product Officer.
The job’s responsibilities’ will include interfacing with PR companies, marketing staff, US company investors and US clients, defining the marketing and monetization strategy for the US market, and leading its execution.
Failure is a necessary step on the path to success. As I once heard it put, good judgement comes from making mistakes. Making mistakes is the result of bad judgement. That’s has also been my experience.
