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LyricWiki in the old sense of the word has shut down. However, the entire contents has been contributed to this new wiki which is run by Wikia. Wikia has a licensing deal with music publishers, so the project will be able to survive and thrive!

Read more about these changes in The Announcement.

Unfortunately, licensing agreements with the biggest publishers in the music industry require us to no longer offer the ability for programmatic access to LyricWiki's collection of lyrics.

We tried to arrange some way to let API Developers license through us, but this was not possible.

While this is not something we are happy about, it is a necessity in order to finally secure licensing for LyricWiki from the major publishers which will allow the project to survive indefinitely.

For more info, please see the letter to API Developers

Thanks to the concentrated efforts of all the editors who took this project on board, there are now just 54 songs needing language identification. So how's about we give it our best shot over the next few weeks to reduce this figure to zero?

For the benefit of all our new editors, here's what needs doing: the language of the lyrics of all the songs found in the above category need to be identified and entered in the language parameter of the SongFooter (N.B. using the English language name).
Happy editing!

After a long programming session, we now have watchlist feeds! These feeds are opt-in only. To get the URL to your watchlist feed, go to Special:WatchlistFeed and enable the feed. After doing so, links to RSS and Atom feeds will appear. Add to your favorite feed reader/news agregator.

On the morning of April 12th 2009, we upgraded to the latest version of MediaWiki. The upgrade has some bugfixes and a couple of really neat new features, but as with any upgrade, there may be some new problems introduced. If you see anything strange, please let us know on the upgrade problems page.

Another year has passed... All the best wishes to all LyricWiki.org users; may 2009 bring you health, happiness and many beautiful lyrics!

Happy new year!
(and guess where you can find the lyrics?).

Last.fm has released their list of the most listened-to songs, albums, and artists of 2008. We've compiled them into a single list of the most popular music of 2008.

On July 15th, the API celebrated its two-year anniversary! It has been used by dozens of plugins and to make countless sites and applications.

We have just released the LyricWiki Challenge facebook app. It is a game which shows you a random section of a song's lyrics and gives scores/trophies when you guess the right song. Addictive & fun... check it out

All the best wishes to all LyricWiki.org users; may 2008 bring you health, happiness and many beautiful lyrics!

Happy new year!
(and guess where you can find the lyrics?).

You may have already notices the user Janitor adding a bunch of songs to the 'Other Songs' section of your favorite artist(s). I've been using this bot to add orphaned pages to their artists. Before you delete the links, please either redirect the pages to the correct page or mark the page for deletion.

Cyber Sinh has released his LyricWiki v1.1 software which connects to many popular media players to fetch the lyrics for the currently-playing song. It uses the .NET framework and can be downloaded here.

To see this and other plugins that make use of our API, visit the plugins page.

Speckmade has saved us all a ton of time and created an OpenSearch plugin for LyricWiki which will go directly to the target-page if it is available! If you use FireFox 2 or Internet Explorer 7, you should be able to choose an option from the search-bar in the top-right of your browser to add "LyricWiki".

Another site created by Sean has been unleashed upon the world. Pedlr is a site for artist and music fans to meet and to sell music. And contrary to the beliefs of some users, we didn't sell out, were are still here. Pedlr will, however, provide Motive Force with a revenue stream to support this site.

Pedlr - the site that I've been hard at work on since before October - is now up and running in a "soft launch" meaning that it works, but we haven't told the press yet. Please check it out and give me feedback, it's going to be a crucial part of LyricWiki's future!

To prepare for the full launch of Pedlr, we got a blazingly-fast database server and separated it from the web-server, and now the site is flying! I knew it would speed up LyricWiki, but this is phenomenal!

Thanks to everyone who filled out our 3-question survey over the last week or so. The results are now on the Official Blog so that everyone can see what's going on here at the site. There is also a mySQL file of all of the data available from the blog post.

To get a better idea of who is using our site, we made a quick 3-question survey that we'll run for just over a week.
Please take a second (or three) to fill it out.

We would like to wish all users of LyricWiki.org a peaceful, joyful and happy 2007, with lots of songs to be sung.

(and guess where you can find the lyrics?)

Kiefer has been hard at work adding a ton of End-Of-The-Year Lists of the best albums and songs from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and more. There are 9 lists already... check them out.

We're on a dedicated server now which should be able to handle the increased traffic!
Sorry for all of the dropped pages we were getting before.

Frontway and myself have been hard at work designing a new main page for the site.

ÜberBot has completed the second batch of automated lyric insertions. However, we need help checking these lyrics for accuracy. You can find the list of pages at Category:Review Me.