Artist discovery platform Meddling launched a new version of its service for music publishers to discover songwriters.

“There are more than 20 unpublished songwriters in the US Top 100 right now,” says Travis Rosenblatt, founder and CEO of Meddling. “Publishers have not yet had access to the same set of tools to discover songwriters that labels have been using for years to find new artists. There is a huge opportunity here for frontline publishing A&R.”

The tool allows publishers to view trending published writers and data by unaffiliated songwriters, filtering them by geography, genre(s) and prolificacy. It is currently being tested by top independent publishers like Concord, Downtown and Riptide.

"Travis and Meddling are always driving innovation in the marriage of music and data,” says Mike Caren, APG CEO. “Meddling for Publishers furthers this and opens the door for publishers to get quick and easy visibility of available songwriters."