MusicMight

MusicMight, formerly Rockdetector is a rock music website which provides artist and product information through a global website and an ongoing book series. Currently based in New Zealand, the site was founded by the late British writer Garry Sharpe-Young, and is backed by a small team of international writers who contribute to the site.

Database contents

The database covers many styles and ages of rock music, such as thrash metal, black metal, death metal, radio rock and nu metal. As of December 2007, the database has over 59,400+ bands listed. The site includes over 92,000 releases in the database and almost 659,000 songs. The site also has an international concert guide of over 300,000 concerts, archiving from 1965. The site also features extensive and unique band biographies, many of which are the result of direct, first-hand interviews with band members conducted by Sharpe-Young during his many years as a Heavy Metal journalist.

Additional features include extensive discographies, pictures of the bands, their logos and their albums covers, upcoming concerts and album reviews.

The site was without updates for some time, bearing a message that a new expanded version of Rockdetector is on its way. On 1 September 2008 the site started after more than one year of re-programming and testing with an improved concept, layout and a re-designed database under the new name Musicmight.com with 60,000 artists and 144,000 persons included in the database.

Sharpe-Young died in March 2010.^[1]

Growth of MusicMight and Rockdetector

Date	Artists	Persons	Recordings	Songs
March 2005	30 000[2]
26 October 2006	50 000[3]
July 2007	56 500	-	89 500	638 500
December 2007	59 400	-	92 000	659 000
September 2008	60 000	144 012	-	-
4 October 2008	60 774	145 825	-	-
15 March 2009	67 186	156 205 [4]	-	-
9 June 2009	70 814 [5]		-	-
11 February 2010	208 562	216 645	-	-

Rockdetector books

• Black Metal - September 2001
• Death Metal - September 2001
• Ozzy Osbourne - February 2002
• Thrash Metal - October 2002
• Power Metal - February 2003
• Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal - February 2003
• 80s Rock - July 2003
• Black Sabbath - Never Say Die - 2004
• New Wave of American Heavy Metal - November 2005
• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - The Battle For Black Sabbath - August 2006
• Thrash Metal - Amended - October 2007
• Death Metal - Amended - April 2008

References

1. ^ Roadrunnerrecords.com
2. ^ "ROCKDETECTOR Reaches 30,000-Band Landmark Tally - Mar. 5, 2005". Blabbermouth. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=33768. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
3. ^ "ROCKDETECTOR: 50,000 Bands And Counting - Oct. 29, 2006". Blabbermouth. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=61217. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
4. ^ "Person counter". Musicmight.com. http://www.musicmight.com/search?q=&t=person&x=13&y=8&page=1. Retrieved 2010-01-31. 
5. ^ "Artist counter". Musicmight.com. 2009-04-24. http://www.musicmight.com/search?q=&t=artist&x=12&y=6&page=1. Retrieved 2010-01-31. 

External links

• Official website
• Coleman, Jennifer (2006-10-26). "www.rockdetector.com hits 50,000 bands". World Metal News. Bloodstock. http://www.bloodstock.uk.com/news/archives/13-www.rockdetector.com-hits-50,000-bands.html. Retrieved 2007-09-30. 
• "Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com". Metal-Rules.com. http://metal-rules.com/interviews/Rockdetector.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-30. 
• "Rockdetector: A to Z of Death Metal; Garry Sharpe-Young". Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on 2007-10-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20070210162548/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/rockdetector_death.php. Retrieved 2007-09-30.