Musixmatch Adds Former Sony Music President Thomas Hesse To Advisory Board

The self-proclaimed IDMB of music lyrics, Musixmatch, has announced the addition of Thomas Hesse to its Advisory Board. Hesse is the former President of Sony Music Entertainment, and joins Nicholas Firth (Former Chairman & CEO of BMG Publishing) and Stefano Hesse (Head of Corporate Communications at Facebook) as Musixmatch advisors.

Lyric delivery is an increasingly important and competitive sector. Here are some Musixmatch milestones that illustrate the point:

• Musixmatch hit the market mobile-first in 2010 with an app which has since been downloaded over 30 million times
• Last year the company grew from 4 million monthly users to over 10 million active monthly users
• Musixmatch have secured licenses with all top publishers over 8,000 independent publishers across the world driving, revenues back to rights holders.
• At the end of 2014 they launched a stand-a-lone website - http://www.musixmatch.com and opened an office in Kings Cross, London