Spotify Acquires Music Database Whosampled

Spotify has acquired nan community-run database search sampled music, WhoSampled, nan company announced Wednesday. The streaming work had besides shared nan news arsenic portion of its Wednesday blog post astir caller song credits features.

Deal position were not disclosed, but Spotify confirmed to TechCrunch nan acquisition is for some nan WhoSampled squad and database. (The institution had only a fistful of employees, per information connected Pitchbook and LinkedIn, which some corroborate astir 10 staffers.)

Launched successful 2008, London-based WhoSampled offers an extended database of songs, samples, covers, remixes, artists, and more. According to its website, it’s now search much than 1.2 cardinal songs and astir 622,000 samples. That information is powering Spotify’s latest features, for illustration its upcoming euphony find instrumentality SongDNA, besides announced connected Wednesday.

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However, WhoSampled was known to Spotify for immoderate time, arsenic it had collaborated pinch nan streamer back successful 2016 to let its users to entree their Spotify playlists and saved tracks successful its app.

In WhoSampled’s announcement astir nan acquisition, nan institution said its standalone level and marque would stay aft nan deal’s closure, and it expected to connection immoderate user-facing improvements arsenic it becomes portion of Spotify’s larger business. For instance, nan institution said moderation times for submissions would beryllium sped up, nan tract will beryllium capable to region show ads successful nan weeks ahead, and its mobile apps will go free downloads pinch free subscriptions.

“Through our caller discussions pinch Spotify, it became clear that we stock a beardown belief successful nan powerfulness of philharmonic discourse – and a imagination for helping listeners spell deeper into nan songs they love,” nan station penned by nan WhoSampled squad reads. “Spotify has shown a genuine committedness to our mission, and we couldn’t person recovered a amended location for WhoSampled,” it stated.