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Opportunities Opportunity Alerts Success Stories Company FAQs Contact Opportunities Opportunity Alerts Success Stories Company FAQs Contact The Music Xray Blog technology enhanced identification of high potential songstalent Blog Winding Down Music Xray Posted by Mike McCready | May 7th, 2024 | No responses Dear Friends, It’s with a mix of emotion that I announce the decision to wind down Music Xray. Despite our ambitions and the groundbreaking work we achieved, it has become clear that our full vision for the company will remain unrealized. Our aim was to transform the pay-to-submit model by fully integrating technology to streamline the process for both artists and industry professionals. This would have allowed us to eliminate submission fees altogether, making it simpler for decision-makers to find the right music without friction. We have come close to achieving this vision several times throughout our journey. However, despite these near successes, we now face the reality that our mission may no longer be viable. Thus, it is time to pass the torch to the vibrant community of innovative entrepreneurs continuously emerging in the music industry. I wish to extend my deepest gratitude to our vast community—over 450,000 artist users, 1,200 industry professionals, and more than 1.4 million music fans—who trusted Music Xray as their platform of choice. Your engagement and trust fueled our efforts and achievements. Key Milestones: Music Xray was pioneering in creating a marketplace where new music could directly find its way into the hands of industry shapers. We facilitated countless connections, such as the placement of songs in major films and TV shows, and successful partnerships like our collaboration with SoundCloud, which resulted in thousands of artist successes. Our platform was instrumental in launching careers, securing contracts, and creating unique opportunities in every genre imaginable. Music Xray will cease accepting submissions effective immediately, with the last day being today, Tuesday, May 7th. Our industry professionals will have an additional week to review their inboxes and manage pending submissions before final payouts are processed. The operational closure of the site will occur on May 15th, followed by a few months dedicated to finalizing payouts and officially winding down the company. While this chapter closes, the reflections on our journey and thoughts about the future will be shared on my personal blog at a later date. Thank you for being a part of this incredible adventure. Your faith in our platform and the music you’ve shared and discovered here will forever be a testament to what we’ve built together. With gratitude and hope for the future of music innovation, Mike McCready Co-founderCEO How COVID-19 Spreads and impacts the body – From Yale School of Medicine Posted by DJ A | April 3rd, 2020 | No responses Music Xray is in a unique position to understand the impact COVID-19 is having on the music industry due to the relationships we have with industry professionals across the board and the unique insights we have into the activities and business functioning of our industry professional and artist users. We will have some info to share with everyone next week, but in the meantime, the important thing is for everyone to stay safe and healthy and to limit the spread of this virus. Norman Dolph has shared this video with us that comes from Yale School of Medicine. It’s an excellent explanation of how the virus works. It’s the best explanation we’ve seen. Please have a look and share it with as many people as you can. Music Xray is Suspending Its Fan Product Posted by DJ A | August 6th, 2018 | No responses After several years of testing our fan product, we have decided to suspend it indefinitely while we consider updating and revamping the service. In short, the product has fallen short of our expectations and we haven’t been able to dedicate the necessary resources to insuring it is a best-in-class product. Until we can do that, we have decided to suspend it. If you are an artist and you have a fan campaign currently in process, we will be issuing you a store-credit refund. If you are a music fan, we will unfortunately not be accepting new fan sign-ups until further notice. If your account balance is greater than $20 you can write in to support@musicxray.com to request a payout of your account. All balances under $20 are not eligible currently for a payout and those will be addressed and the products re-launch. Thank you for your interest in this product. -The Music Xray Team Regretfully, We’ve had to remove an industry professional from Music Xray Posted by Mike McCready | April 10th, 2018 | No responses We regret that some Music Xray artist and professional account holders have may have received an email in the past few days from someone named Doug Diamond. In his email, he makes a few false allegations and declares he is ending his relationship with Music Xray. Our issues with Mr. Diamond: For the past year, Mr. Diamond has been posting opportunities on Music Xray while not disclosing his employment role as the Vice President of Music Licensing at a company which holds itself out as a competitor to Music Xray. The principal partners at the said company had already been removed from Music Xray several years ago. By not disclosing this, he violated specific terms of service. We are investigating whether his activity was fraudulent to Music Xray but more importantly, to the users who paid to submit to his posted opportunities. We believe that false statements he made in his email to recipients meet the legal standards for libel. Music Xray will begin refunding all affected users this week and we will do better to prevent these types of users from slipping through our review and approval process. You can read about our approval process here or watch the short video below explaining our policy. This message continues below the video. Music Xray removes industry professionals from the site when we detect mischievous activity. One sign an industry professional may be using Music Xray for the wrong reasons is that their business and livelihoods depend upon the collection of submission fees. In other words, we only work with industry professionals and companies whose primary source of income is earned through the great music deals they get for our musician users and others. This is the reason Mr. Diamond’s business associates were removed from the site and it is a contributing factor for removing Mr. Diamond. He has been locked out of his account, which of course, impedes him from reviewing further songs. We are very sorry this occurred and offer our sincere apologies. Music Xray is an efficient platform which uses a combination of music analysis software, crowd-sourcing of industry professionals, fan reactions, and machine learning to identify high potential songs and talent for the industry. We are obsessed with being best-in-class and with making it faster, more transparent, and less expensive for artists to have their music discovered by legitimate industry professionals. We act with integrity as do the professionals on the site. If we discover otherwise, they are removed. How to Earn Money by Inviting Artists to Music Xray Posted by Mike McCready | October 23rd, 2017 | No responses See the number of affiliates you have in account settings, found by clicking on your profile name in the upper left part of the site, once you’ve logged in. No matter what type of account you have on Music Xray, be it a fan account, an artist account, or an approved industry professional account, you can earn money when you invite artists to open an artist account. To invite other artists, just log in to your account and then click this link . Each artist will receive an invitation, on your behalf, to join Music Xray. Their account will become an affiliate of your account and you will receive 15% of Music Xray’s margin on...