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Navigating the music business can be tricky for creators, especially when dealing with the minute details of rights management and music contracts. Entertainment lawyer/music business professor Karl...

Songtrust was founded by Downtown Music in 2021, and since then, the Downtown family of companies has grown to include CD Baby, FUGA, AdRev, and more. While these companies have distinctive roles...

In 2021, Songtrust’s staff onboarded hundreds of thousands of works, processed tens of millions of lines of royalty data, and signed on countless new clients to global publishing administration...

As Songtrust has entered our tenth year, we’ve come to better understand and appreciate our core values and our mission. We’re thrilled to launch a new visual identity and brand system that better...

The past twelve months since Pride Month 2020 have been unprecedented. The world has experienced enough to fill a lifetime, and the queer community has been impacted in countless ways. With the...

Women working as performing artists, songwriters, producers, and on the business side of the music industry have long bonded with each other over stories of sexual harassment, being scolded for...

On Sunday, March 14th, the 63rd GRAMMYs took place, celebrating musical achievements and creativity from the last year. Across the categories, six Songtrust songwriters were recognized for their...

Songtrust is a publishing administrator who is working to get all of your hard-earned publishing royalties collected and reported in one place, but what happens behind the scenes? How does Songtrust...

Songtrust's Collections Network Increases to 215 Countries, Covering More Than 98% of the Global Music Market

Songtrust Continues To Scale Its Music Publishing Administration Services Worldwide, With Its Client Base

The New Clients Include DMY Artists (Dummy), Fast Friends, Red Fish Music (Snapper Music), Tenwest, TRIBE Management, Jawdropper Management, and Kormac.

Dear members of the Songtrust Community,

This article was originally published in Music Ally. For the music industry, 2020 will go down in the history books as a very challenging year. With the impact of COVID-19 felt globally, everyone...

Songtrust Will Administer the Publisher’s Full Catalog For the World Outside of the United States and Canada

The 63rd GRAMMY Awards are taking place on January 31st, 2021 and the complete list of nominations have been announced. We are thrilled to share that 19 Songtrust songwriters contributed to 14...

A Lifelong Advocate for Women in Music, Neuman Wants To Empower Women and Marginalized Communities By Working To Model The Behavior We Need To See in Music

The Songtrust Team is excited to announce a new feature update to Songtrust Accounts: Song Registration Tracker.

Since 2018, More Than 95% of Songwriters, Producers, and Creators in Africa Are Unpublished, With This Number Increasing As The Continent Goes Digital Highvibes, the simplified music distribution and...

Former President and Chief Product Officer of Songspace, Darren Briggs, Joins Songtrust as the Company is Pacing for its Third-Straight Record Year of Growth Songtrust®, the world's largest global...

When you’re at the beginning of your music career, the music industry can seem like a giant fortress. You’re circling the walls looking for a way in, but the drawbridge is up, and the gates are...

A common misconception within our industry is that collection societies like ASCAP and BMI meet all of a music creator’s publishing needs. While essential, these organizations only account for a...

Today, we are excited to announce that Songtrust President, Molly Neuman, has been honored by Billboard on its 2019 Women In Music list. In an industry where women only make up 21.7% of artists,...

As many creators and industry leaders know, the music industry is ever-evolving and adapting with new technologies and legislation that affect the entire landscape. To truly progress, companies...

Today, we announced the recent addition to our team, Richard Aurigema, as Vice President of Copyright. Richard will lead our copyright administration team and continue to work to position Songtrust...

Neighbouring rights, an oft-misunderstood and commonly overlooked right type, has become increasingly relevant for performers, producers, and record labels. The neighbouring rights sector is a...

Songtrust, the world's largest technology solution for global music royalty collection service and publishing administration, announced a new business partnership with distribution company Symphonic...

Songtrust, the world's largest technology solution for global music royalty collection service and publishing administration, announced today a new business partnership with creator platform...

The Songtrust Team announced today new additions to its leadership team, with Brad Yuan joining as Global Head of Rights Management Operations and Noam Mantel as Songtrust’s Head of Product.

Shortly after I started at Songtrust and during the early conversations I had with candidates for roles on our team, we talked about how we would speak to the creative community about why it might...

Songtrust congratulates General Manager and Co-founder, Joe Conyers III, and Global Head of Business Development, Molly Neuman for being among this year’s Billboard’s Digital Power Players.

Songtrust, the leading technology solution for global music publishing administration, today announced its continued growth with the company’s first full-time representatives based in Atlanta, Los...

Since joining Songtrust in December of last year, I’ve been on a lot of planes. Visiting Austin, London, Tallinn, Toronto, Nashville, Los Angeles, Cannes, Sydney, Adelaide, Singapore – and our team...

Writer’s block happens to everyone — even the most passionate songwriters. It can be the most frustrating thing being unable to create new songs because you're unable to think of new ideas, stuck on...

Before I started at Songtrust, my knowledge of music publishing was very limited. In fact, the only real knowledge I had of the music industry was about music supervising and sync licensing, but the...

As an independent writer and musician, the words “music publishing” always gave me anxiety. Whenever it was brought up, it felt like someone was reminding me of an essay or test I had yet to start...

I've always believed that songwriters and musicians are some of our very best storytellers. Storytelling lends itself to visibility and representation, which fosters a sense of community. Community...

We’re in an awakening of mainstream LGBTQ representation in music where artists all across the spectrum can find success in their careers, but there is still a significant amount of work to be done...

I take delight anytime I’m at a tech gathering and no one brings up blockchain or bitcoin. It’s a buzz word and very few actually know what it means or what it entails. Blockchain is very fetch in...

The first day into my first job in music publishing, my boss took me aside and said, “Give it time, Mandy. It will take many years to master music publishing administration.”

We're excited to announce we now enable over 150,000 songwriters to collect their publishing royalties worldwide!

Studying healthcare and gender studies in college, with a focus in women's health, I didn't think that by working in the music industry I could bring so much of my college education into my job. But...

I had the privilege to moderate a panel last week at South by Southwest (SXSW) with Money Mark, Ted Leo, and Rebecca Gates on the need for the music industry to look to our artists and songwriters...

I spent Valentine’s Day digging through fourteen million digital streaming assets trying to match them to those from our clients in our system. Three weeks later and I’m still not done. I don’t say...