Lyrics Across Downtown Music's Portfolio

Downtown Music is a global independent rights management and music services company. Based in New York City, it has been composed of five divisions: Downtown Artist & Label Services, Fuga, Songtrust, Adrev and CD Baby. Downtown Music Holdings, the umbrella group handles distribution, publishing administration, royalty collection, neighboring rights, and label, publishing and artist services. They service over 20 million music assets from hundreds of countries across six continents.

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Lyrics Across Downtown Music's Portfolio

Working with AudioShake

Downtown Artist & Label Services has integrated AudioShake's technology across its operations to enhance artist services and expand global reach. With the launch of its Automated Lyric Transcription feature, powered by AudioShake's lyric transcription and time stamping service, Downtown's catalog music is automatically transcribed lyrics during the track upload process. This allows music and lyrics to be optimized for all digital service providers (DSPs), enhancing artists' reach and connection with fans worldwide.

One standout example of this partnership in action came following the release of Lala Sadii's "Murder My Feelings." Downtown Artist & Label Services leveraged AudioShake's lyric transcription and alignment for marketing and promotion. AudioShake isolates the vocal of a recording and then transcribes it in both the original and new languages, allowing customers to create lyric transcripts, word-by-word time stamps, and lyric videos in seconds. Providing quick and unprecedented access to international audiences.

With over 20M followers, Lala Sadii is no stranger to creating engaging content for her followers across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. For Sadii, who's bilingual in English and Arabic, the opportunity to share her lyrics in multiple languages was a natural fit.

"We were searching for an effective tool that would help us create lyric videos in multiple languages and reach new audiences for Lala, who already has an international fan base. We were amazed at how fast AudioShake could take Lala's song and turn it into multiple lyric videos that could help Lala connect with fans in their local languages. The fans are loving the results and already asking for more."

Channing Mitzell

Project Manager, Downtown Artist & Label Services.