We’re celebrating our unofficial birthday at Chordify HQ. Seven years ago we presented the beta version of our chord algorithm for the very first time to the public at the 2012 conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). Since then a lot of things have changed.
Our algorithm has chordified more than 15 million songs. We believe that everyone is a musician and that everyone can learn to play an instrument way easier than a few decades ago. Judging by the way people use Chordify, we are very happy to see that our vision is shared by many.
The 200 million unique visitors that found their way to Chordify since the very beginning are the living proof that our music learning platform is helping people to pick up an instrument and learn a song or two in a few simple steps.
Our content focuses on beginners, but we also like to help our more advanced visitors by showing them that chord theory isn’t that hard and enabling them to edit songs so they can tweak every chord to their own liking.
Chordify is a free platform with paid premium features. You just enter the name of a song and our algorithm searches the databases of YouTube, Deezer and Soundcloud for the song you want to play. The chords you see are for free. Since the official launch of Chordify to the public during Eurosonic 2013 - yes, that’s a few months after the beta launch at ISMIR 2012 - more than 3 million registered members have joined our community.
This year ISMIR celebrates her 20th birthday. After France, China and the USA, this year the conference takes place in Delft in our home country, the Netherlands. We will be there, so you can swing by and say hello. Hope to see you there.