Mike McCready

There are those who disagree, but I think Spotify has a real shot at winning the music game in both the US and Europe – if not beyond. It makes almost all the music in the world available to you on-demand, 24×7. That’s just going to beat any cloud service that requires you to pay [...]

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.

I truly believe this is an exception. In the past, artists were not required to pay to submit their music for professional consideration. Additionally, there have been numerous scams and shams where unscrupulous people have preyed upon the aspirations of emerging artists to take their money from them. I understand when I hear musicians say, “You shouldn’t have to pay people to consider your music”. And, “Music industry professionals already get paid by their companies to find talent.” Or, “Any professional that’s charging you to listen to your music is running a scam!” And, “Aren’t people supposed to pay me to hear my music and not the other way around?”

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.