Type of site Music Website Owner Omar Ray Website naplyrics.com | Available in English Revenue Non-profit | |
Slogan(s) Hot lyrics and Music Videos | ||
Naplyrics.com is a licensed lyrics website that started its operations in late 2011 and was recently featured on killerstartups.com . As of August 2012, the website contains over 59,000 artists, 1,100,000 lyrics, 26,000 albums and has 84,000 Twitter followers and 6887 Facebook subscribers.
History
Naplyrics.com was created by Canadian graduate student Omar Ray . According to a recent interview, Ray quit his graduate school to pursue building a comprehensive lyrics website that was legal and supported lyrics publishers. The website has undergone numerous revisions and currently serves audiences music related content such as lyrics, videos, celebrity blogs etc.
In July 2012, Naplyrics.com joined lyrics licensing agency LyricFind to provide compensation for lyrics related content and the agreement makes the website one of the very few licensed lyrics portals.
Naplyrics.com is hosted from Vancouver, British Columbia, which is also home to the world's most popular lyrics website and recently acquired by CBS - Metrolyrics.com.