Music Xray is far from perfect and we’re working every day to improve upon existing features while we continue to develop new ones. At the same time, we work every day to live up to our commitment to music artists which can be found on our site and reads:

In building Music Xray our intention has been, and it always will be, to solve marketplace problems for artists.

No dream vultures. We will not permit users of our Interaction Engine to peddle false hopes to artists.

We are incorporating numerous mechanisms to ensure transparency and to encourage artist feedback.

We believe we are democratizing the ability to reach the people that can either teach you something, and/or potentially help you gain access to mass-exposure opportunities.

If you find otherwise, contact us and we will fix the problem.

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Get professional feedback on your music.
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Submit your music to real opportunities
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If you’re not getting placements or signed go back to step one.
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Upload all your songs here and Music Xray will alert you any time an industry professionals is seeking music like yours via ourS₂O Service.

You upload your original music here.
We analyze the acoustic properties and mathematical patterns in your music.
We send you an email telling you if any industry professionals are currently seeking a song like yours. (What? How does that work?)
For as long as your songs remain in our database (forever unless you remove it) we will alert you any time any professional is seeking songs with characteristics similar to your songs.
Put as many songs in the database as you’d like. It’s free.
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Upload any song for free by clicking here.

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Subscribe to the new Song Cat A&R Podcast to hear great Music Xray songs and discussion about the music business.

Don’t forget to join our LinkedIn group for a more business focused angle on all things music.

Music Xray is an A&R platform that helps people who professionally receive songs manage and make sense of them easier than ever before.

By creating a state-of-the-art, efficient and organized A&R Platform that the music industry can use for free, we enable many of the industry’s top companies and talent buyers to make themselves directly available to artists, songwriters, song owners and performers via song drop boxes. Even companies that previously did not accept unsolicited material have found that Music Xray enables them to open their doors. The platform is also a facilitator of communication and conversations between artists and industry professionals that makes the interactions rewarding for both parties.

Additionally, Music Xray has made it easier for top producers, coaches and even artists themselves to offer song critiquing and career coaching services, (sometimes for free), making Music Xray the easiest and fastest way to get advice, education and insights about music and the music business.

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We’ve all heard the old stories about the artist who submitted their song to someone in the music business and never heard back. Then, at some point in

the future they heard their song on the radio as a smash hit recorded by someone else and the whole thing ended up in a contentious lawsuit or simply

never got resolved. These days, some artists believe that when they put their songs “out there” they run the risk of it spreading virally and millions of

people will end up listening to the song but the artist never will never see a dime.

As in every industry, the music industry has its share of unscrupulous people so I’ll never go as far as to say that this won’t ever happen again but in my

opinion, the potential rewards of getting your songs heard far outweigh the risks. Here are four points that illustrate why:

• There are now over a million songs being created and digitally distributed EACH YEAR. There is no lack of great music and smash hits out there and an

  industry professional would rather do legitimate business with a willing artist than to steal a song. There’s just too much hassle involved in stealing a song

  and in today’s digital age. It’s pretty easy for an artist to prove a song is theirs.

• If you don’t get your song in front of the right people you have no shot. There are plenty of artists out there who understand that hiding their music is

  only going to lead to never getting a deal. In other words, competition is robust and if you don’t get your songs in front of the right people there are

  plenty of other artists who will.

• Right or wrong, most music business professionals believe that there is no song or artist that can’t be replaced. That is to say, no matter how good you

  are or no matter how good your song is it really doesn’t make sense for a music business professional to try to “steal” it from you. Why get embroiled in

  contention with an artist and damage your own reputation in the business when it’s so easy to find artists with great songs willing to do deals?

• Mass exposure gives you a better chance of achieving fame or reaching a deal than obscurity does. That is to say, if you are lucky enough to put a song

  out there and to have it take off virally you will do really well. The currency of the digital age is attention. If you get people’s attention you have a better

  chance of converting it into income than if you languish in obscurity. Unless you are a writer of hit songs with a proven track record, a network of

  contacts waiting for your next creation and top artists beating down your door for your songs you need to do whatever you can to establish yourself.

  Having one of your songs go viral will help you establish that.

There is one last issue you should understand. Most music professionals and companies will not accept music submissions if the music they receive is not publicly visible and streamable somewhere. There are a lot of complex legal issues surrounding this but explained briefly; industry professionals and their companies do not want to be put in the position of perhaps being the only people to have ever heard your music. If they were and someone were to copy your music, they could be liable. Industry professionals would prefer to never hear your music than to be put in that position. Therefore, one of the requirements of submitting music via Music Xray is that the music is streamable from the site. This is explained clearly in our terms of service. If you’re not comfortable with it, please don’t use Music Xray.

But again, there are lots of other reasons (see above) why making your music available is in your best interest.

Check out this article on The Huffington Post:

It covers some of the new opportunities and paths to success now open to artists in the emerging new music business landscape.

“… after years of drought, we may now be moving into the best time to be a musical act in decades, if not ever. A time when there is less incentive than ever before for any business person to prey upon the aspirations and naivety of artists and a time when artists can hire their own business teams and be off to the races.

“I am certain that we will see some very creative ways in which artists will become famous. There will be more paths to success than we’ve ever seen. I don’t claim to foresee them all but here’s one replicable way I think it can be done.”

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1. Get feedback on your songs from qualified industry professionals.

2. Submit your songs for roster consideration, song placements and much more.

3. Use your song presentation packs to promote your songs across the web while putting their best foot forward.

Subscribe to the new Song Cat A&R Podcast to hear great Music Xray songs and discussion about the music business.

Don’t forget to join our LinkedIn group for a more business focused angle on all things music.