SONGS: Completion Report - Questbook Season 2
Project information
SONGS Protocol Docs
Open Music Distribution Protocol
Music vertical on Royalties Protocol
Project Links:
Deck
App (Private Beta)
Website
Masterplan
Codebase
Docs
One-liner
Own your music. All in one sovereign music platform.
Solution | Short Summary
Bring on-chain ownership in the full music creation and distribution process.
SONGS aims to enhance distribution efficiency and transparency in the music industry through creating the correct paths and life for song sovereign creation and distribution.
It will create new incentives and dynamics between artists, music professionals and fans, adding new habilitating layers beyond traditional ownership of music royalties.
Summary
SONGS aims to simplify the music creation process from idea to market. It acknowledges the current model’s deep layers and historic foundations, while aspiring to streamline the journey from an artistic idea to a final, consumable song. Efforts to improve this process have been made.
Our goal as participants of the current music model is to set the foundations for a deep simplification of it. Permitting a closer relationship between the artists (creators) and the fans (music consumers)
The intention is not to redesign the whole actual modu-operandi but to identify the value-adding stakeholders of the current model and making the rails to deeply improve all of them creating incentives via lowering costs and standardisation of procedures that were not possible before via the actual available technology. But, without assuming that the old procedures are going to fade away.
We are users of the actual model. We are building to use it now not in ten years.
Open Music Distribution Protocol
Goals:
- Enable artists to upload their music directly to streaming services without intermediaries, receiving the generated revenue directly in their wallets.
- Automate the distribution of song profits among creators.
- Improve the efficiency of label-artist relationships automating their conectivity and enforcing transparency.
- Allow artists to sell their digital phonographic distribution rights (we prefer to called it Songshares) to fans, enabling them to receive advances through their fans or any other entity with access to the protocol (a privilege traditionally reserved for record labels).
Grant impact
Arbitrum Grant has directly participated on the act of funding the initial steps from idea to reality of the SONGS Protocol.
Right now we have the version 0.1 of the protrocol up & running on testnets and cleaning it all the way round for the public launch.
We have the initial version of the SONGS platform active and up & running. (yet in testnet, updating pretty soon!)
We will start adding artists as soon as possible to the SONGS private beta:
Please if you are musician and you want to participate and start releasing your music directly with songs and receiving your earnings directly in your wallet, reach out here:
We hired two more teammates in addition to the proposed during the program milestones. Jean (blockchain dev) and Kinda (musician and mega influencer that will help us deliver our content strategy)
Program experience
In general the program experience has been really nice, organised and professional. I would totally recommend to other value adding projects in the ecosystem to participate out as the value provided out of the pure capital has been really nice and effective.
Great Kudos to @JoJo 
Contact info
Whatsapp: WhatsApp Group Invite
Telegram: Telegram: Contact @songs_protocol
Discord: SONGS