Collect the publishing royalties your music is already earning.
If your music is being streamed, sold, performed, or used around the world, publishing royalties may be waiting to be claimed. Symphonic helps simplify the collection process so you can earn more from your songs without managing registrations society by society.
Publishing royalties should not be left unclaimed.
Register your songs once with our partner and help create a path for your publishing royalties to be collected across global territories, royalty types, and societies.
Countries/territories where we help collect publishing royalties.
One-time upfront fee to join the publishing administration service.
Submit your song information with our partner once instead of registering at multiple collectives worldwide.
Why It Matters
Your songs can earn more than streaming revenue.
Publishing royalties are generated when your compositions are streamed, performed, sold, reproduced, or used in different formats. Without proper registration and collection support, those royalties can sit with collection societies or go unclaimed.
Pub Admin can help artists:
- Collect mechanical, performance, sync, print, lyric, ringtone, and other publishing royalty types.
- Register songs once with our partner so information is sent to collection societies worldwide.
- Collect royalties in multiple territories and currencies.
How It Works
A simpler path to publishing royalty collection.
You focus on creating and releasing music. We help with the administration side, from song registration to society collection and royalty tracking.
1
Apply
Fill out the publishing administration form so our team can review your submission.
2
Get accepted
If approved, you’ll receive next steps by email and be directed to complete your setup through our partner, Songtrust.
3
Register songs
Submit your song information once and we help ingest and send those registrations to societies worldwide.
4
Collect royalties
As royalties are collected, you can receive payment while keeping ownership of your work.
Why Use Symphonic
Publishing administration without doing it all yourself.
You can try to register with societies worldwide on your own, but it often means managing multiple relationships, applications, fees, timelines, currencies, and reporting systems.
$100 upfront
One-time fee to join. We charge an administration fee of 15% for performance royalties and 20% for non-performance royalties collected on your behalf.
Potentially thousands
Sign-up fees, yearly fees, and direct registrations with PROs and mechanical societies can add up quickly.
Register once with our partner
Register your song once with our partner, and your song registration will be sent to societies worldwide.
12+ months
You may need to establish your identity, build accounts with dozens of societies, and register songs with each one.
215+ countries/territories
We help collect your royalties across territories and continue expanding global collection coverage.
It depends
You’ll need to establish and maintain society relationships that may involve different languages, rules, systems, and currencies.
Multiple royalty streams
We can help collect mechanical, performance, sync, print, lyric, ringtone, and other royalty types through the same service.
More digging
Societies do not always start paying immediately. You may need to research where royalties are held and how to claim them.
We handle the heavy lifting
You keep ownership of your work while our partner helps with administration, collection, and registration support.
You manage the process
You’ll need to become familiar with copyright administration, foreign collection, society rules, and registration requirements.
What You Keep
Keep ownership. Collect what you’ve earned.
Publishing administration is not about giving up your rights. It is about making sure your songs are properly registered and your publishing royalties have a path back to you.
Your ownership
You keep ownership of your work while using our service to help administer and collect publishing royalties.
Your share
The rest of the publisher’s share and the full writer’s share goes straight to your bank account after applicable admin fees. You will continue to collect your writer’s share of performance royalties directly from your PRO.
Your time
Spend less time trying to figure out foreign collection societies and more time creating, releasing, and growing your catalog.
FAQ
Publishing administration questions, answered.
Publishing royalties are royalties tied to the composition of a song. They can be generated from streams, downloads, performances, physical sales, sync uses, lyrics, and other uses of your music.
Yes, distribution and publishing administration are different. Distribution helps get your recordings onto platforms. Publishing administration helps collect royalties connected to the underlying composition. If you perform and write your songs, you generate both types of royalties.
There is a $100 upfront fee to join. Symphonic charges an administration fee of 15% for performance royalties and 20% for non-performance royalties collected on your behalf.
If you are not already affiliated with a PRO, you will need to do so before utilizing the publishing administration service.
No. The goal is to help you collect publishing royalties while you keep ownership of your work.
Resources
Learn more before you apply.
Publishing can feel complicated, but it does not have to stop you from collecting what your music has earned.
Publishing Administration 101
Explore educational resources on publishing royalties, administration, collection, and how the process works.
Publishing Administration Help Desk
Get more details about eligibility, setup, collection, registration, and common publishing administration questions.
Ready to collect your publishing royalties?
Turn your catalog into a stronger revenue channel with a partner that helps you register, manage, and collect publishing royalties with more clarity.
Upon acceptance, you will be redirected to a sign-up page provided by our partner, Songtrust.