Lyrics and music data company Musixmatch has unveiled a new AI-powered music data tool it says will transform catalogs into intelligence, helping labels, publishers and artists to make better business and creative decisions.
The new AI agent, dubbed Music Lens, will roll out in the first quarter of 2026, with some select Musixmatch Pro partners eligible for early access. The tool will initially have four core capabilities:
- Matching catalogs to any creative brief, opening up new sync placement opportunities
- Turning global music trends into clear, actionable insights
- Generating release-ready visuals in seconds
- Giving publishers, labels, and independent creators clear visibility into royalties, splits, and DSP performance.
“Together, these features enable individuals and teams across the industry to identify creative and commercial possibilities, embrace cultural trends with more precision, and streamline production workflows, all within a secure, unified dashboard,” Musixmatch said in a statement on Tuesday (November 18).
Musixmatch stresses that the AI tool is ethically trained. Each dataset is permission-based and stored securely within the company’s data ecosystem.
The tool is not powered on training data, as most prominent AI products today are, but rather by “derived data”: new information is created by processing and combining existing data.
That existing data, in Musixmatch’s case, comes from a catalog of more than 100 million works that it has access to via a series of partnerships with music publishers.
Musixmatch calls it “one of the largest ethically licensed datasets ever assembled” for music analytics.
“It is built for – not on – the industry,” Musixmatch said.
“Music Lens represents a vision of how AI can empower, not replace, the people who create and manage music.”
Max Ciociola, Musixmatch
The company announced last month that it had signed AI licensing deals with the publishing arms of all three major music companies.
The deals with Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner Chappell Music gave Musixmatch access to catalogs of more than 15 million musical works, with which the company said it would develop new analytical tools and “non-generative AI services.”
“Music Lens represents a vision of how AI can empower, not replace, the people who create and manage music,” said Max Ciociola, CEO of Musixmatch.
“For over fifteen years, we’ve built the world’s richest lyrics and metadata ecosystem. With Music Lens, we’re taking the next step by giving the industry an intelligent, ethical layer of powerful tools and analytics that help it see music differently.”Music Business Worldwide
