Takeoff of the Artist Commons for Numbering Artist IDs!

 ■Takeoff of the Artist Commons for Numbering Artist IDs!

Artist Commons Corporation was started up.

It will assign a unique ID for each artist for smooth linkage between media and content services.

This project that was being advanced based on the CiP Council is becoming independent and turning into a company.

Artist Commons (AC) was formed jointly by 8 organizations and 2 companies in music and entertainment, including the Japan Association of Music Enterprises, the Federation of Music Producers Japan, and the All Japan Concert & Live Entertainment Promoters Conference (ACPC).

In the media environment focused on smartphones, users tend to fall into a small world called the filter bubble, decreasing the number of opportunities for them to encounter various content produced by artists.

Insufficient linkage between services, such as online transmission, tickets, news, ranking, and broadcasting, and the difficulty of obtaining authorization for rights are considered to be the causes.

Under these circumstances, music and entertainment organizations and academic research institutes have repeated research and experiments since 2016 in an attempt to jointly develop and produce the “AC-ID” common artist ID and the “AC-API” linkage program in order to build out information infrastructure to increase added value of artists by making it easier to link services.

In addition to linkage with services such as for tracks on the air on the radio and for concert tickets, the “AC-ID” artist ID is expected to be useful in various scenarios, such as simultaneous transmission of TV, accurately grasping usage situations in catch-up options, and the improvement of user convenience.

Numbering has already begun, with musical artists coming first, and subjects will be expanded to celebrities, actors, athletes, intellectual and others moving forward.

Users can jump to songs and videos from artist names.

Users can also easily access concerts, tickets, social networking accounts, and merchandise.

Businesses can grasp performers in video transmission and the usage of music easily.

It provides a foundation that easily links various services, such as for concerts, subscriptions, news, charts, social networking sites, broadcasting, and video transmission.

We have run tests with radiko, Ticket PIA, E Plus, Lawson Tickets, and others to make it possible to jump directly to ticket agency websites from tracks on the air and purchase tickets.

We have become a company to finally complete implementation and begin our services.