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Type of site | Music database |
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| Available in | English, French |
| Created by | Jean-Luc Biaulet, Loïc Picaud |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | yes |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | Online |
Music Story is a music service website and international music data provider. It curates, aggregates, and analyzes metadata for digital music services.
Music Story was launched in 2008 as an online musical encyclopedia inspired by AllMusic. It was founded by Jean-Luc Biaulet and Loïc Picaud, [1] the last of whom is the site's editor-in-chief and has authored books on David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Paul McCartney and Red Hot Chili Peppers. [2] Picaud also wrote L'Odyssée du Rock Français, a study of French rock music, [2] and contributed to the reference work Le Rock de A à Z. [3]
The site included artists' biographies, features on various musical genres, and album reviews. [1] Among the contributors and reviewers were music critic Christian Larrède, [4] who has written for the cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles ; [5] Stan Cuesta, a musician and journalist specialising in rock and folk, [6] who has also contributed to Mojo , Rolling Stone and Rock & Folk ; [7] and Guillaume Belhomme, [8] a jazz musician and author. [9]
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 application programming interface (API). [10] Titled, Music Story Pro, [1] 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 Radio France. [11]
In 2015, Music Story carried out a fundraising of €600,000 to further its international development. The initiative was supported by France's Institut pour le Financement du Cinéma et des Industries Culturelles. [12] As of May that year, the company's customers included Deezer, Fnac, Amazon, Radio France, Lagardère and Universal. [13]
Mouv' is a French youth-oriented radio station which began broadcasting on 17 June 1997. As part of Radio France, it is a public radio station. The station primarily plays youth-oriented music, centered on urban music and hip hop. Initially based in Toulouse, it moved to Paris in December 2001. It relaunched on 2 February 2015 with its slogan Mouv on it. Previously the radio station assumed an alternative rock identity, its slogan L'esprit Rock was a way of life and a style as well as a type of music.
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