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Tidal releases songwriter services with catalog registration and tracking tools to ensure royalties are properly identified, attributed, and collected.
Starting today, US songwriters can claim and manage their works catalog through Tidal with the platform’s new songwriter tools. Songwriters have never before been provided a platform specifically to serve their full writing career cycle, but Tidal is changing that. Now songwriters can make sure their royalties, including mechanical royalties, are correctly identified, attributed, and collected.
“As a songwriter who produces my own music, the new Tidal songwriter tool makes a noticeable difference by giving me a straight-forward look at my catalog to make sure I’m getting accurate royalties,” says singer-songwriter Sabrina Song. “The ability to manage my works in one place really allows me to focus more on making music.”
Songwriters have to juggle a mix of collection societies, publishing platforms, royalty management services, streaming services, and more to manage their royalties and catalogs. With Tidal’s new tools, songwriters can sign up for the platform’s Artist Home and organize their publisher information in one place. Further, songwriters will be prompted to sign up for the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), and artists registering with a PRO for the first time can sign up with the PRO AllTrack.
“To begin collecting royalties on their songs, creators need to sign up with the proper rights organizations — altogether a confusing process for most,” says AllTrack Founder and CEO Hayden Bower. “We are proud to partner with Tidal to introduce new AllTrack technology that makes registering for performing rights and getting paid as simple as possible for creators.”
On Tidal, songwriters can view their works categorized into three groups: Completed Works, Works Without Recordings, and Unmatched Recordings. With collaborative split sheets, songwriters can unlock better rightsholder tracking and invite collaborators to sign off on their shares, enabling better documentation of ownership. Songwriters with teams can invite their managers and publishers to help manage their works with the team roles tool.
The existing process of managing music metadata is complicated at best and broken at worst, impacting the accuracy of royalty collection. Songwriters can now easily view and manage their credits and metadata in Tidal Artist Home to ensure their works are correctly matched and registered, helping them earn money.
“Creating music sustainably in today’s world is difficult, especially for songwriters who need to establish and manage their identities in order to receive recognition and fulfill their earning potential,” explains Agustina Sacerdote, Global Head of Product at Tidal.
“At Tidal, we’re committed to supporting early stage and self-managed songwriters with handling their careers independently. For songwriters, a Tidal profile is a simpler way to understand and confidently manage their credits to get compensated correctly.”
