Genius
The world's biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.
Genius is a platform that hosts song lyrics, annotations, and music knowledge contributed by a large community of users. It provides charts, artist pages, and detailed lyrical breakdowns across genres. Genius also offers a public API for developers to build applications using its vast catalog of annotations and song data.
A community of contributors transcribes and annotates song lyrics, while Genius provides charts, editorial content, and a public API for third-party integrations.
music fans, lyric enthusiasts, and developers building music-related apps
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Genius Media Group
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