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The Music Information Database (MID) is the world's largest resource for factual data on the history of popular music available anywhere in the world. Of interest to everyone from the casual music fan to the most devoted trivia buff, from a local radio station to a global television network, from a college magazine to a national newspaper, the MID can supply answers and solutions to all your music information needs.
Ever wanted to know where the members of U2 were born, what the best-selling record of all-time is? Need the complete chart history of every Creed record? Want to know Shania Twain's real name or how Marvin Gaye died? Perhaps you need the very latest global music news, a 'this day in music' history; or you simply want to know every conceivable fact about your favorite recording artist. Whatever your music information needs, the Music Information Database puts the world of music history, facts and trivia at your finger-tips.
The MID is divided into nine sections - each definitively researched with each piece of data held in separate database fields to enable infinite cross-referencing:
The most detailed factual artist bios ever assembled on the most popular and influential artists of all time from Abba to ZZ Top, Hank Williams to Moby - all genres, all eras
EVERY US and UK charting single, album and EP from 1952 to the present day for every artist, a definitive resource
A definitive 'This Day in Music' history for all artists for each day of the year; and a music history time-line detailing everything of importance that has happened in popular music history from January 1, 1950 to the present day
All major and minor music award nominees, winners, dates, locations, global, an all-time database covering all genres
All UK, US, Latin and pan-European Singles, Albums, EPs and videos sales certifications for all artists, ever
Updated daily, and collated by artist, the Daily Music News wire includes upcoming tour dates, single/album release news, important events and artist news from around the world
Comprehensively details over 16,000 artist birth/deaths with the day/month/year/location of their birth/death, the artists real, full name and band affiliation
Some 5,000 Top 10 lists, covering every music topic from seminal best-sellers to trivial music-related lists, (not charts), in all music genres and from all eras
Over 10,000 interesting, educational and trivial Q&As on music artists and hits, all genres, all eras
The Music Information Database has been assembled by Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, contemporary music historians, authors of over twenty music-related reference books and creators of entertainment programming for television and radio. Fifteen years in the making, it is the largest, most accurate and up-to-date popular music information database available anywhere.
Our clients include some of the top corporations in media and entertainment in Europe, North America and Asia, including book publishers, television networks, radio stations, magazines and newspapers.
To learn more about subscription services for contents of the MID, please contact:
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