Why is building a music credits ecosystem so complicated - and important? (And what are Niclas Molinder, Max Martin and Bjorn Ulvaeus doing about it?)

Music Ally Focus Ep. 99: Successful songwriter Niclas Molinder co-founded the music credits ecosystem Session along with two other Swedish songwriters, Max Martin and Bjorn Ulvaeus in 2019. Music Ally's editor Joe Sparrow asks him about what he’s doing to make sure that as much new music as possible has all the correct credits and metadata baked in from the start – and ask him why getting music metadata straightened out is taking so long.

Session aims to attach complete metadata is attached to all recordings and songs at the point of creation. Niclas has written and produced for artists such as Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Mary J Blige and The Jonas Brothers. Niclas also talks about the challenges that companies who have spent fortunes buying catalogues of decades-old songs – often with patchy metadata – can go about uncovering and attaching the correct credits to their catalogue of music.

Session: https://www.session.id

Niclas' music choices:

Sting – They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo) youtu.be/MS_bN5ECJTI

Monica Zetterlund – Waltz For Debbie

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