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We act as the Operating System for music rights — so music, and everyone behind it, thrives.

Over the last 20 years, BMAT has built a global network of data and technology that identifies, tracks, matches, claims and distributes music rights from play to pay. Today, BMAT is trusted by thousands of music companies and copyright organisations, including some of the industry’s leading players, across 249 territories.

At its core is the industry’s most comprehensive database of recordings and works, comprising 320 million sound recordings, 130 million musical works and 260 million links between them. Together, this infrastructure supports the processing of €3 billion in royalties every year.

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Yesterday’s papers

Yesterday’s papers

El Periódico – Puede llegar a haber artistas de IA populares, pero no creo en un reemplazo

Creative Industries News – BMAT starts partnership with Denmark’s KODA to provide data services

SportsPro – Music cue sheet compliance is getting tougher in sport – here’s how broadcasters can adapt

Creative Industries News – BMAT Music Innovators joins data standard organisation DDEX as Charter Member

MBW – IFPI rolls out Official Southeast Asia Charts, including new charts for Philippines and Vietnam

Billboard – Voice-Swap and BMAT Launch New Technical Certification for AI Models

Music Ally – Voice-Swap and BMAT to certify AI music models’ training data

Via Empresa – BMAT, la tecnologia que dignifica la indústria musical

France Digitale – LETS 2023, the mapping of 135 Leading European Tech Scale-ups that are succeeding globally

Emprendedores – Las 10 ‘scaleups’ españolas que más se valoran en Europa

Barcelona City Council – Dismantling myths surrounding the transformation of working time

Info Barcelona – 3 Barcelona companies win awards for work-life balance

 

Variety – Use of Production Music on Broadcast and Cable TV Reaches New Heights: Study

La Vanguardia – El ocio nocturno y BMAT ponen en marcha un sistema para reconocer la música que suena en discotecas

A&R WORLDWIDE – Manage Ad Music (MAM) has been acquired by BMAT Music Innovators

Noudiari – Las discotecas dispondrán de tecnología para identificar la propiedad intelectual de toda su música

Music Ally – Commercial tracks are only 7% of music used for US television

medianews4u.com – The rising importance of production music

360 upf. – Inteligencia artificial (IA), enseñar a las máquinas a pensar como los humanos

MusicTech – This Royalties Calculator lets you know what your favourite artists are earning from streaming

RouteNote – Use this new royalties calculator to work out how much your music streams are worth

Hypebot – Free streaming royalty calculator estimates what any artist earns

Music in Africa – BMAT backs new music streaming royalties calculator

Billboard – India Launches International Singles Chart

Credits Due – Worldwide support for creators

RouteNote – BMAT offers scholarships to IMB for the next generation of talent in the music business

Music Instrument News – BMAT Offers 30 talent Scholarships to Aspiring Music Biz Innovation Leaders

Platform & Stream – BMAT to Help Aspiring Music Biz Leaders

Music Connection – Apply to BMAT Music Innovators Scholarships

Billboard – India’s Music Industry Charts Its Future as It Eyes Bigger Share of Global Market

UPF MTG – LoudSense – AI system for automatic audibility estimation of background music in audiovisual productions

MBW – IFPI Launches ‘Transformative’ Shared System for Performance Rights Revenue Distribution in Asia

El Confidencial – Estos algoritmos cuentan las veces que suena una canción para pagar derechos de autor

EurekAlert! – Artificial intelligence to determine which music broadcast on TV is subject to copyright

Music Ally – IFPI’s SoundSys tackles performance rights revenue distribution

Forbes – Blockchain Powered Initiative Pays Musicians In Two Hours Rather Than Two Years

Radio World – Relationships Are Why Radio’s Future Promises to Be Strong

DJ Mag – Producers are losing millions in royalties every year – here’s what you can do about it

BMAT hosts SUMMUS

Summus is a Latin word that describes the greatness of things. In our case, it’s a summit we organise every year to honour the greatness of music.
It's a place where we meet with friends and share the lessons we learnt or discuss today’s challenges.

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Awards

Mirex

In 2018, MIREX -the most important international competition of MIR (Music Information Retrieval) algorithms- recognised our music detection algorithm as the best in the field, with accuracy 10 percentage points higher than the algorithm in second place. In 2019, our first position was reestablished as we presented 2 new algorithms and they both obtained better results in comparison to the algorithm submitted in 2018.

Awards

Bloomen

BMAT was appointed as ‘Key Innovator’ by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar for the developments in the H2020 Bloomen project: Blockchain technology will be used to provide copyright protection of media content.

Publications

Bloomen

Kapsoulis, Nikolaos; Psychas, Alexandros; Palaiokrassas, Georgios; Marinakis, Achilleas; Litke, Antonios; Varvarigou, Theodora; Bouchlis, Charalampos; Raouzaiou, Amaryllis; Calvo, Gonçal; Escudero Subirana, Jordi. 2020. “Consortium Blockhain Smart Contracts for Musical Rights Governance in a Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) Use Case“

Future internet 12, no. 8: 134.

Publications

Industrial Doctorates

Meléndez-Catalán, B. Molina, E., and Gómez, E. (2017). “BAT: an open-source web-based audio-events annotation tool“.

3rd Web Audio Conference

Meléndez-Catalán, B. Molina, E., and Gómez, E. (2019b). “Open broadcast media audio from TV: A dataset of TV broadcast audio with relative music loudness annotations“.

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

Meléndex-Catalán, B. Molina, E., and Gómez, E. (2020). “Relative music loudness estimation, using temporal convolutional networks and a CNN feature extraction front-end“.

In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-20), volume 5, pages 273-280.

Meléndez-Catalán, B. (2021) “Relative Music Loudness Estimation in TV Broadcast Audio Using Deep Learning: An industrial perspective”.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

G. Cortès, Álex Ciurana, Emilio Molina, Marius Miron, Owen Meyers, Joren Six and Xavier Serra. “BAF: An Audio Fingerprinting Dataset For Broadcast Monitoring”.

In Proc. of the 23rd Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR), Bangalore, India, 2022 [dataset, Github]

Publications

Covers

F. Yesiler, E. Molina, J. Serrà, and E. Gómez., “Investigating the efficacy of music version retrieval systems for setlist identification”, in Proceedings of the 46th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021), 2021.

Publications

LoudSense

Roser Batlle-Roca, Perfecto Herrera-Boyer, Blai Meléndez, Emilio Molina and Xavier Serra. “Towards a Characterization of Background Music Audibility in Broadcasted TV” in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Special Issue Speech Communication in Complex Auditory Scenes and Effects on Voice Behaviour and Health, Listening Comfort, Well-Being, and Learning.

Awards

LETS

In 2023, we were recognised as one of 135 Leading European Tech Scale-ups (LETS) that are succeeding globally to stand out for our international reach and the sustainability of our business model.

Our Scientific Publicactions and Awards

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Founded in 2006, BMAT is a music innovation company that acts as the Operating System for music copyright. We make advanced music technology accessible, helping the industry navigate complexity and unlock untapped value across the global copyright lifecycle. Born in Barcelona and engineered by people who love music, BMAT gives the entire music ecosystem the alignment, speed and scale it needs today.

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