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About LyricFind
For over 20 years, LyricFind has been the trusted source for lyrics and data licensing. Since signing the first-ever lyric licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing (now part of Sony/ATV Music Publishing) in 2005, LyricFind has grown its product suite into the global premier provider of lyric data, sync, and translations, with innovative solutions for data analysis and video creation.
LyricFind has secured access to more than 200,000 catalogs and over 10 million song lyrics over the course of its two decades in business. Its client base has also grown to include an expanding list of top music platforms, including TikTok, Amazon, Google, Xperi, YouTube, Deezer, and more. Clients trust LyricFind to provide current, accurate, and fully licensed lyrics, and its in-house premium reporting infrastructure precisely tracks and pays royalties to songwriters and rights-holders on a song-by-song and territory-by-territory basis. LyricFind’s solutions also include LyricIQ, a set of innovative data analysis and filtering tools, and Videos by LyricFind, a platform that generates videos in seconds. Recently, LyricFind completed the acquisition of Belfast-based company Rotor Videos, strengthening LyricFind’s well-established portfolio of lyric-based solutions and expanding on its recent push into the video creation market.
For more information, please visit lyricfind.com.
Darryl Ballantyne – Founder & CEO
Darryl Ballantyne founded LyricFind in 2004 with Mohamed Moutadayne and Chris Book. The company pioneered the licensed digital lyrics space, signing the first mass lyrics licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing in 2005.
Darryl has overseen LyricFind’s growth into the world’s largest lyrics provider. LyricFind’s clients include the biggest names in the music and tech space such as Google, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, Xperi, and Pandora.
LyricFind has also established long standing licensing relationships with over 10,000 music publishers, such as The Harry Fox Agency, APRA/AMCOS, CSDEM, MCPS, CAPASSO, and many more.
As an authority on licensing and digital content, Darryl regularly speaks at industry events across the globe, including SXSW, Music Biz, Music Tectonics, Canadian Music Week, Trends Brasil, Wallifornia Musictech, NOLA Music Tech (now NOLA MusiCon), and NY:LON (now Music Ally Connect). He has also been featured in publications such as Music Business Worldwide, Yahoo Finance, Music Week, and The Globe and Mail.
Before launching LyricFind, Darryl was Manager of Digital Development & Distribution at EMI Music in Los Angeles, where he was involved in deals with companies such as Yahoo, Napster, and iTunes. Darryl earned a Bachelor of Mathematics with a Business minor from the University of Waterloo. He is based in Toronto.
