Burnaby’s Milun Tesovic – Not Your Typical 16-year-old

I’m sure everyone has, at least once in their life, tried to look for lyrics to that song on a search engine.  And about 90% of these people should have stumbled upon a lyrics site named MetroLyrics.

MetroLyrics is a subsidiary of MetroLeap Media Inc., a company started by then 15-year-old Milun Tesovic.  After already running a successful hosting company, he found that web users were constantly on the lookout for music and music videos, and lyrics just seemed to be the missing puzzle piece.  Describing how obvious a task it was for him,

“So I made a quick script with my own code and started a database of music lyrics. … It cost $9 a month to buy up the domain.”


Milun, with the help of his business partner and family friend Alan Juristovski, led the online lyrics industry and ventured on the pathway of providing free and public information through the funding of ads and sponsorship.  MetroLyrics has continued to pioneer partnerships, such as the licensing agreement with Gracenotes in 2008 (compensating songwriters and copyright holders).  The company is the world’s largest lyrics supplier and boasts 40+ million unique users every month.

At last year’s Enterprize conference, Milun was a guest speaker addressing a topic none other than Entrepreneurship.  Establishing a new business is no easy task, and this young and bright star is definitely one entrepreneur to watch.

Winner of the 2009 Global Student Entrepreneur Award