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AllMusic

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AllMusic
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AllMusic Logo.svg
AllMusic's logotype and logo since July 2013
Type of site
Online database for music albums, artists and songs; reviews and biographies
Available inEnglish
OwnerRhythmOne (since 2015)[1]
Created byMichael Erlewine
URLallmusic.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched1991; 32 years ago (1991) (as All Music Guide)
Current statusOnline
This article is about the online database. For the album by Warne Marsh, see All Music (album).

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994.[2][3] AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne.

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Online database

Online database

An online database is a database accessible from a local network or the Internet, as opposed to one that is stored locally on an individual computer or its attached storage. Online databases are hosted on websites, made available as software as a service products accessible via a web browser. They may be free or require payment, such as by a monthly subscription. Some have enhanced features such as collaborative editing and email notification.

Album

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at 33+1⁄3 rpm.

Musical ensemble

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra. Other music ensembles consist solely of singers, such as choirs and doo wop groups. In both popular music and classical music, there are ensembles in which both instrumentalists and singers perform, such as the rock band or the Baroque chamber group for basso continuo and one or more singers. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles. Some ensembles blend the sounds of a variety of instrument families, such as the orchestra, which uses a string section, brass instruments, woodwinds and percussion instruments, or the concert band, which uses brass, woodwinds and percussion.

RhythmOne

RhythmOne

RhythmOne plc, previously known as Blinkx, and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel.

History

AllMusic was launched as All Music Guide by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash".[3] Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide.[4] In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded All Music Guide with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost".[2]

The first All Music Guide, published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music.[5] Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based Gopher site.[2][6] It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly.[3]

Erlewine hired a database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov, to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine, to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music".[3] 1,400 subgenres of music were created, a feature which became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium, Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which the music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore."[7]

In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $3.5 million. He left the company after its sale.[3] Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Equity Fund.[4]

In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor, where the staff expanded from 12 to 100 people.[3] By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors".[8][9]

In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of the sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016).[10]

In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams' info from the site per a request from the artist.[11]

In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX (later known as RhythmOne).[12][13]

The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB.[14]

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Michael Erlewine

Michael Erlewine

John Michael Erlewine is an American musician, astrologer, photographer, TV host, publisher and Internet entrepreneur who founded the music online database site AllMusic in 1991.

Compact disc

Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as Digital Audio Compact Disc.

LP record

LP record

The LP is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of 33+1⁄3 rpm; a 12- or 10-inch diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl composition disk. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it remained the standard format for record albums until its gradual replacement from the 1980s to the early 2000s, first by cassettes, then by compact discs, and finally by digital music distribution.

Little Richard

Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman, known professionally as Little Richard, was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. Described as the "Architect of Rock and Roll", Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his charismatic showmanship and dynamic music, characterized by frenetic piano playing, pounding back beat and raspy shouted vocals, laid the foundation for rock and roll. Richard's innovative emotive vocalizations and uptempo rhythmic music also played a key role in the formation of other popular music genres, including soul and funk. He influenced numerous singers and musicians across musical genres from rock to hip hop; his music helped shape rhythm and blues for generations.

Metadata

Metadata

Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:Descriptive metadata – the descriptive information about a resource. It is used for discovery and identification. It includes elements such as title, abstract, author, and keywords. Structural metadata – metadata about containers of data and indicates how compound objects are put together, for example, how pages are ordered to form chapters. It describes the types, versions, relationships, and other characteristics of digital materials. Administrative metadata – the information to help manage a resource, like resource type, permissions, and when and how it was created. Reference metadata – the information about the contents and quality of statistical data. Statistical metadata – also called process data, may describe processes that collect, process, or produce statistical data. Legal metadata – provides information about the creator, copyright holder, and public licensing, if provided.

Big Rapids, Michigan

Big Rapids, Michigan

Big Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,601 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Mecosta County. The city is located within Big Rapids Township, but it is politically independent. Big Rapids is home of the main campus of Ferris State University, a four-year public university, well known for its College of Pharmacy and the Michigan College of Optometry, as well as its NCAA Division I hockey team, the Bulldogs, and their Division II football and basketball teams.

Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles (74) from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso made 247 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920, which made him an international popular entertainment star.

Gopher (protocol)

Gopher (protocol)

The Gopher protocol is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to HTTP. The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the fifth-largest city in Michigan. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Washtenaw County. Ann Arbor is also included in the Greater Detroit Combined Statistical Area and the Great Lakes megalopolis, the most populated and largest megalopolis in North America.

Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams FRPS is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and photographer. He has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in each of the US, UK, and Australia.

MySQL

MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database organizes data into one or more data tables in which data may be related to each other; these relations help structure the data. SQL is a language programmers use to create, modify and extract data from the relational database, as well as control user access to the database. In addition to relational databases and SQL, an RDBMS like MySQL works with an operating system to implement a relational database in a computer's storage system, manages users, allows for network access and facilitates testing database integrity and creation of backups.

MongoDB

MongoDB

MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and licensed under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) which is deemed non-free by several distributions. MongoDB is a member of the MACH Alliance.

The All Music Guide series

The All Media Network produced the All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide),[3] which includes a series of publications about various music genres. It was followed by Required Listening series, and Annual guides. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president and the main editor of the series.[15]

  • All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music (1st edition: 1992, 2nd ed: 1994, 3rd ed: 1997, 4th ed: 2001, 5th ed: 2008)
  • All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music (2004)
  • All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country Music (1st ed: 1997, 2nd ed: 2003)
  • All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music (2001)
  • All Music Guide to Hip-hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop (2003)
  • All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music  (1st ed: 1994, 2nd ed: 1996, 3rd ed: 1998, 4th ed: 2002)
  • All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (1st ed: 1995, 2nd ed: 1997, 3rd ed: 2002)[16]
  • All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul (2003)
  • All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (1st ed: 1996, 2nd ed: 1999, 3rd ed: 2003)
  • All Music Guide Required Listening: Classic Rock (2007)
  • All Music Guide Required Listening: Contemporary Country (2008)
  • All Music Guide Required Listening: Old School Rap & Hip-hop (2008)
  • All Music Guide to the Music of 2002: Your Guide to the Recordings of the Year (2003)
  • All Music Guide to the Music of 2003: Your Guide to the Recordings of the Year (2004)

Reception

In August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its "Top 100 Classic Websites" list.[17][2]

Source: "AllMusic", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 13th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic.

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Sylvia (singer)

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

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References
  1. ^ "BLINKX ACQUIRES ALL MEDIA NETWORK, LLC – Newsroom – RhythmOne". Investor.rhythmone.com. April 16, 2015. Archived from the original on November 3, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Wolf, Gary (February 1994). "All Music". Wired. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Bowe, Brian J. (January 24, 2007). "Make it or Break it". Metro Times. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  4. ^ a b Herbert, Daniel (January 24, 2014). Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0520279636. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  5. ^ Formats and Editions of All Music Gude. World Cat. OCLC 31186749.
  6. ^ Nosowitz, Dan (January 30, 2015). "The Story of AllMusic, Which Predates the World Wide Web". Vice. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  7. ^ Smith, Ernie (September 20, 2016). "The Big Data Jukebox". tedium.com. Tedium. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  8. ^ Weisbard, Eric (February 23, 1999). "Conjunction Junction". The Village Voice. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  9. ^ Powers, Ann (June 3, 2015). "Digital Underground Who Will Make Sure The Internet's Vast Musical Archive Doesn't Disappear?". NPR. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  10. ^ "Focus Article: Rovi Corporation". insidearbitrage.com. Inside Arbitrage. October 1, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  11. ^ "FAQ". AllMusic. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  12. ^ Unsted, Sam (April 16, 2015). "Blinkx Acquires Website Owner All Media Network For Undisclosed Amount". London South East.
  13. ^ "BLINKX ACQUIRES ALL MEDIA NETWORK, LLC - Newsroom - RhythmOne". investor.rhythmone.com. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  14. ^ Smith, Ernie (September 16, 2016). "The Story of AllMusic, the Internet's Largest, Most Influential Music Database". Vice. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  15. ^ Bruno, Anthony (February 28, 2011). "AllMusic.com Folding Into AllRovi.com for One-Stop Entertainment Shop". Billboard. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  16. ^ Toon, Jason (July 21, 1999). "Rock Stock: A book report on the best tomes to consult before buying tunes". Riverfront Times. Archived from the original on April 30, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  17. ^ Heater, Brian (August 13, 2007). "Top 100 Classic Websites – AllMusic – Slideshow from pcmag.com". PCmag.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
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