Music XrayReviews of musicxray.com

We've been working with MusicXray as industry professionals for the past years. So we're one of the parties involved "on the other side" of the platform, not artists, but those where things end up that artists submit on their platform. It's always been a good opportunity to get in touch with singers, songwriters and producers of all kinds. We've been in a good relationship and it's always been a pleasure to seek talent on musicxray. This changed when they had a sort of company takeover, at least something changed behind the scenes. It went downhill in no time. As industry professional you're being paid a cut of the money that artists spend for submitting their music. They began to delay payouts, always excused it with the accounting would be working hard on it in order as requested payouts. Months passed upon requesting the payout over and over again, when we finally had enough and asked for our right. Just to make things clear; they earn money by artists submitting to opportunities of industry professionals, whilst those get a cut from the earnings. We're not talking about a couple of dollars but about a couple of hundrets of dollars. So it's a shared business and as industry professional who basically generates their own income, you have a right to demand the money you make. They delayed, delayed, delayed. Upon being sick of waiting for 4 and more months for the requested payout, asking to speak their CEO for further discussion, it was forwarded to Mr. Mike McCready (CEO) who without a comment kicked us out. We received our requested and rightfully earned money, and got banned from their platform after years of cooperation. That's how professional they are. They keep your earned money and if you ask for it, you're being delayed for months over months, if you dare to getting tired of the situation, you're 'fired'. Good job Musicxray, hopefully not too many artists will fall for this anymore. Highly unprofessional and inacceptable behaviour as supposedly serious company. You may kick us without leaving a comment to us, but we won't leave without making this public, not only here. If you're willing to talk about the situation, we're down to rethink this and further publications, for sure not everything went right but it really isn't great, you're acting like this, Mike. It would be great if we would find a way to solve this issue, instead of ending it like this.

I'm a musician who used Music X ray to get placements. Well, I will be cautious, but I strongly suspect that these are thieves. Paying $ 25 to send a song that is not reviewed and perhaps not even heard seems to me only a robbery. The funny thing is that 10 of these $ 25 are used to pay for an elusive feedback service. In practice the songs sent should be listened to by people who are paid to do so, and based on the number of plays a score is given to your piece. The ridiculous thing is that the listeners despite the promises received are never paid for it. Just go and see internet forums to see how many people complain about it. They attract artists with ads in which they look for songs in which the amount of compensation appears in plain sight, which can even reach 10,000 $ per song. So an artist thinks: "Ok, I spend 25 $ dollars but I have the chance to earn 10,000 $". What I think is that your money goes to the manager of Music X Ray (he is a well-known guitarist and I could call him by his first and last name) and the company making the selection. This does not mean that there are placements that have worked, but the amount of money they steal cannot justify this.

Maybe songwriters get discovered here, maybe MusicXray is not permitted to promote that good news. Or maybe it is a racket that doesn't want to admit it. Let's see...You've got a website with lower-grade user interface and functionality than Plenty of Fish (and that's bad). You've got MusicXray with its self-proclaimed legions of producers -- both charging fees to accept demo tracks. You find they reply, if they reply, much like a dude on POF, too, saying, "Just not what I'm looking for." Then, you have thousands of pretty solid songwriters, others I know, who have taken the plunge around the time I did, to see if this site will actually yield deals. MusicXray emails whenever rejected the same email, suggesting you do 20+ submissions before calling it quits. So, 20 submissions x $35 ea. ave. = $700. Average payout? They're not saying, but the majority of "opportunities" pay in the range of $500-$1,000; the next most are less than $500. You do the math. A skilled, diligent songwriter will net $0 ROI on this website, while losing money on thinking they should do better and better quality demos. I know, because I took them at their word, then as social experiment on this site, doing strong demos, submitting my best stuff (and yes, I'm pretty darn good). Guess what happened? Nothing. ADVICE: Write your songs and play them locally where you can make $150-$300 night. Enjoy your talents with family and friends. Then buy a PowerBall ticket. That's how this industry rolls. Case in point? Every lost soul on SoundCloud--which integrates with MusicXray. Hmmm.

I have used them on and off for several years. They were quite good early on and I had two legit signings with music supervisors. Early on they also had fewer listings and less of the obvious scammers. I stopped submitting earlier in 2018 because nothing was getting listened too. (At least they gave refunds) Recently, they just had a listing where the “company” wanted you to pay $20 to submit and their “genius listing” was to have people log into all the various streaming services that have the companies playlist, push play and leave it running all day!!!! Seriously!! What a joke! Even more of a joke is that X-ray allows this type of garbage on their site. It’s really disappointing because I don’t know where else to meet music supervisors or try to get my music heard other than stock libraries etc. I tried Taxi too once and it’s so expensive and the screeners are obvious amateurs. Signed, Just another frustrated musician!!

I have been a customer for more than two years . Since I do not have contacts in the music industry i decided to use their services. A word of warning CAVEAT EMPTOR: Save your money! Often the Music Industry Person does not even listen to song. I have signed two "deals" with these so called Music Industry people and have never heard back from them. Music Xray does not make it easy to leave negative comments on their fringe-dwelling MIPs. Music Xray purports to have a great tracking algorithm, however, the company refuses show a conversion rate, which would be sooo easy for them. It makes one have more than doubts about their veracity. SAVE your money. RIP OFF COMPANY!.