The mystery of Music Publishing. These steps will secure your musical assets across key databases, ensuring your music royalties are accounted for. Agencies listed cover royalty streaming in select territories.

Before sharing your music:

1. Register your song metadata with a Performance Rights Organization (BMI, ASCAP, etc.) to obtain your ISWC codes and IPI number. https://bmi.com to collect publishing royalties

2. The Mechanical Licensing Collective https://www.themlc.com/ to collect mechanical royalties from streaming platforms

3. https://www.harryfox.com/ opt in for licensing agreements and more.

4. https://soundexchange.com obtain your IPN nunber and collect international royalties

5. https://soundcredit.com ISNI number

NOW YOU CAN HIT THE DISTRO:

https://soundcloud.com

Soundcloud is an efficient way to upload your tracks to social media/music platforms, assign songwriter splits, and collect additional royalties from instagram, youtube, and tik tok videos they even register your music on soundexchange. Please read their agreements accordingly.

Be sure to Enable YouTube content ID. Use your music for content and use the appropriate audio features to collect royalties.

Keep a spreadsheet database of all your music using our Google sheets publishing template.

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