Music Story is a music service website and international music data provider. It curates, aggregates, and analyzes

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for digital music services.

History

Music Story was launched in 2008 as an online musical encyclopedia inspired by

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...

. It was founded by Jean-Luc Biaulet and Loïc Picaud, the last of whom is the site's editor-in-chief and has authored books on

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Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg (; born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative rel ...

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and

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. Picaud also wrote ''L'Odyssée du Rock Français'', a study of French rock music, and contributed to the reference work ''Le Rock de A à Z''. The site included artists' biographies, features on various musical genres, and album reviews. Among the contributors and reviewers were music critic Christian Larrède, who has written for the cultural magazine ''

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''; Stan Cuesta, a musician and journalist specialising in rock and folk, who has also contributed to ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''; and Guillaume Belhomme, a jazz musician and author. Music Story later developed as an editorial enrichment service for digital music platforms, such as artist biographies, and processing and qualification of metadata. In 2013, the company launched an

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(API). Titled Music Story Pro, it offers integrated digital music search engines, access to third-party content (audio/video streams, photos, lyrics), and music recommendations. In October 2014, the company's products were featured in Radio 2.0 Paris' music technology event, hosted by

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. In 2015, Music Story carried out a fundraising of

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600,000 to further its international development. The initiative was supported by France's Institut pour le Financement du Cinéma et des Industries Culturelles. As of May that year, the company's customers included

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, Radio France,

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and

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References

External links

* {{Official website , http://www.music-story.com/
API documentation
Online music and lyrics databases American music websites French music websites Entertainment companies based in California Internet properties established in 2008