Platinum Blue Music Intelligence
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Music Xray is a digital music company based in New York City. The company's official name is Platinum Blue Music Intelligence Inc but it began operating under the name Music Xray in July 2009. The company bills itself as "a platform that enables musicians to interact directly with top music industry professionals" and "an enhanced A&R platform". The professionals on the site provide a range of services to artists from considering songs for specific opportunities to offering song critiques and career coaching. For artists, Music Xray provides a conduit to top gatekeepers and professional feedback at a fraction of the time and expense it would require via any other means. For industry professionals Music Xray is a tool that helps them receive, manage, share and make sense of the music submissions"
The firm uses statistical software to analyze musical compositions. According to an article in The New Yorker
, the firm claims to be able to predict hit songs with eighty-percent accuracy. After analysis, the firm sometimes offers broad suggestions for improvement in a song. Music Xray was founded by Mike McCready
, formerly of Polyphonic HMI
of Barcelona
, Spain and Tracie Reed formerly of Polyphonic HMI
of Barcelona
.
On June 5, 2010 the company launched a song to opportunity (S2O) matching system that uses advanced music analysis software to alert musicians when their songs contain the musical characteristics that an industry professional is seeking.
The firm uses statistical software to analyze musical compositions. According to an article in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, the firm claims to be able to predict hit songs with eighty-percent accuracy. After analysis, the firm sometimes offers broad suggestions for improvement in a song. Music Xray was founded by Mike McCready
Mike McCready (music entrepreneur)
Mike McCready is an entrepreneur in the music industry, CEO of Music Xray, a blogger on Huffington Post and musician. He is most known for having pioneered the science of hit song prediction using acoustic analysis software to analyze the underlying mathematical patterns in music...
, formerly of Polyphonic HMI
Polyphonic HMI
Polyphonic HMI is a music analysis company jointly founded in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain by Mike McCready and an artificial intelligence firm called Grupo AIA...
of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain and Tracie Reed formerly of Polyphonic HMI
Polyphonic HMI
Polyphonic HMI is a music analysis company jointly founded in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain by Mike McCready and an artificial intelligence firm called Grupo AIA...
of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
.
On June 5, 2010 the company launched a song to opportunity (S2O) matching system that uses advanced music analysis software to alert musicians when their songs contain the musical characteristics that an industry professional is seeking.