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by bballer 3242 days ago
Where did the initial seeding of all the lyrics & bands come from? Also, are most of the new lyrics contributed by users and if so how do you handle authenticating that the lyrics provided are accurate?
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My license provider has a database of over 1.2M lyrics.

But matter of fact is that Directlyrics hosts only around 10k. A decision made early on to focus on less pages compared to competitors that needed to rank 1M+ paghes.

So where did the lyrics come from when you started the site? Did you type them out yourself, take from some other site in the same niche, etc?