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Gracenote announces Musicmetric alliance
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 6 March 2014
Music meta-data grabber Gracenote has announced a new alliance with Musicmetric. Under the partnership the former, now owned by Tribune of course, will include social data compiled by the latter in its internet radio and music recommendation service Rhythm.
Says Gracenote President Stephen White: “Music analytics is becoming a big business and the stronger the signal, the more valuable the insights. Musicmetric is showing us what music fans around the world are sharing, but, more importantly, their data is also providing the contextual information to help us filter and make sense of it all. Combined with our editorial expertise and proprietary analytics, I have no doubt that our music recommendation and discovery platform is hands down the best around”.
Meanwhile Gregory Mead, CEO of Musicmetric owner Semetric added: “Gracenote is already a backbone in the digital music industry and this partnership illustrates how Musicmetric’s data can strengthen recommendation and discovery products and services. Using Musicmetric’s data on real-time fan interactions and sentiment from social media and BitTorrent networks will further drive discovery by providing yet another ‘human’ element to Gracenote’s Rhythm platform”.
