Gracenote announces deal to publish music lyrics on the web

Gracenote, the company responsible for the CDDB database that helpfully grabs track and album titles from the Internet whenever you play a CD, has scored a major deal with dozens of music publishers. This deal will enable Gracenote to provide commercial song lyric services over the Internet.

Don’t get excited yet. When the service sees the light of day, it may be available only to those who purchase the song. Further details simply don’t seem to be clear right now. It would be great to see this used as a searchable database though, since current lyric sides are very pop-up and spyware ridden.