LyricWiki

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LyricWiki.org is a site run by a wiki server. The site's sole purpose is to post lyrics of singers. It is the 11th largest MediaWiki wiki, according to the list of largest wikis.

[edit] History

The site was created in April 2006 and soon after won the DreamHost Site of the Month award for April 2006 [1]. LyricWiki has received a great deal of press coverage around the world including an article on Wired Magazine's blog [2] and the popular blog Lifehacker [3]. As of August, 2006, LyricWiki became the official lyrics provider of social playlist-sharing FIQL.

[edit] Features

Lyrics to over 240,000 songs
Song of the Day / Album of the Week featurettes
No-banner, no-popup policy (site currently sports a small, unobtrusive AdWords banner)
Feed of top iTunes songs for quick access on Main Page
SOAP Webservice [4]
Media player plugins and extensions for Winamp, Amarok, Windows Media Player, musicCube, foobar2000, etc. [5]