Music Reports

Rights Data

Music Reports maintains Songdex, a registry of music-copyright information. The company says the database covers publisher information, share splits, territorial rights, synchronization rights, mechanical rights, composer information, and IPI data across more than 180 million distinct sound recordings and compositions. That data is used to help identify the rights connected to a use of music.

For rights holders, the useful distinction is between identifying ownership information and administering a particular licence. Songdex supports both a reference-data function and, through its marketplace, a way for publishers to review offers. Rights holders should confirm the catalogue data and their ownership shares before accepting a licence opportunity.

Licensing Tools

The Songdex Marketplace is presented as a workflow for obtaining publisher licences. Music Reports says participating publishers can access an offer through an account, review the terms, download an agreement, and decide whether to participate. That is different from assigning a catalogue to a traditional publisher: the decision is tied to the particular offer and its terms.

The company also provides licence administration for music users. Its description includes reporting and royalty payments to publishers, PROs, CMOs, and labels, using direct or claim-based workflows. The public site identifies this as a service for businesses that use music as well as for the rights holders whose works are involved.

Reporting Systems

Music Reports describes royalty reporting, payments, and ownership matching as central services. It reports administering more than $400 million in annual royalties and producing more than 12 million royalty statements annually. Its product range also includes Cuetrak, a platform for creating, managing, and distributing cue sheets at scale.

Those services make the page most relevant to publishers, catalogue owners, and businesses that need to clear or report music use. Before accepting a marketplace offer or relying on a report, verify the applicable agreement, the covered uses, the relevant territory, and the payment schedule in the account materials.