https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/musixmatch-acquires-music-reports-songdex https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/musixmatch-acquires-music-reports-songdex The lyrics company has made its first acquisition in 16 years, buying the owner of the Songdex copyright registry, the Blokur matching platform and Cuetrak. Better matching could pay writers money they are owed today. It also puts a large share of the industry's rights data inside one private-equity-backed company. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industryroyaltiesmetadatamusixmatch