How to Find the Name or Title of a Song by Lyrics

Posted on September 25, 2007 at 3:07 pm

Most people listen to songs from bands they like and sometimes search for the lyrics of a song if they can’t quite make out what’s being sung. However, for those of us who happen to listen to the lyrics of a song and want to find out who sang it, there are some useful lyric search engines that do just that. Frankly, this happen to me all the time!

It’s amazing how many times I’ve jumped into my car and turned on the radio, really liked the song that was playing, but at the end of the song there was no announcement by the DJ of the artist or band! I understand the whole “back-to-back” song broadcasts on radios these days, but it would be really nice if there was a quick mention of the song name at the very end!

Anyway, so if you know some of the lyrics for the song you’re looking for, you can try out a few of these lyric search engines to try and find the band or song name. Actually, there are quite a few of them out there, but only a few really have large databases of song lyrics. So I put a couple to the test to try and find a fairly new song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers called Californication with the query “the sun may rise in the east”.

These are the search engines that actually found the song:

1. Get Lyrical – You can also search by Artist, by Song, or by Album.

find songs by lyric

2. Search Lyrics – This site also has some non-English lyrics and you can translate any of the English lyrics to another language on the lyric pages. Get Lyrical finds an exact match for your lyrics whereas Search Lyrics searches for those words anywhere in a particular song and will return a result even if the words are all not together.

song by lyrics

3. LyricsFly – Found my song also, but make sure you click on Lyrics first and then perform a search.

lyricsfly

The other web sites that I tried did not find the test song lyrics and so I’m not going to mention them here if they can’t find a fairly new song from a fairly popular band. If you know of any other lyric search engines, post a comment!

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6 Responses to “How to Find the Name or Title of a Song by Lyrics”

  1. Madhur Kapoor said on : September 26th, 2007 at 10:37 am

    Nice tools , never knew there were such things also


  2. Kay said on : August 17th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Honestly, I have amazing results using Yahoo and Google. Just type in the lyrics in quotes, and the word “lyrics:”

    “the sun rises in the east” lyrics

    Works great for me, and the results page itself will often give me the information I wanted. (Artist, title, album.)


  3. rockrob said on : December 28th, 2008 at 6:30 am

    Honestly, I have amazing results using Yahoo and Google. Just type in the lyrics in quotes, and the word “lyrics:”

    “the sun rises in the east” lyrics

    Works great for me, and the results page itself will often give me the information I wanted. (Artist, title, album.)

    Yeah, I tried this, and it was better than any other lyrics search engine. Gr8 work. thnx


  4. Jiaal said on : December 6th, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    Hi, there are a lot of songs that this service does not find when I type in the lyrics. It knows a lot of common or popular stuff, but nothing about niche music. Any niche music lyrics type site?


  5. Juann said on : February 18th, 2010 at 3:51 am

    What’s the best program to use to determine a song by actually playing it? I know there is Shazam for iPhone, but is there any program for Windows?


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