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Account Registration
Manage your account, Register your works
Account Setup
- Do I Need to Add My Name as a Songwriter After I Open a Songtrust Account?
- How Long Does it Take for a PRO Application to Process?
- What If I'm Not Affiliated With a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)?
- Songtrust Account Setup Demo
- YouTube Tool Demo
- Do I Have to Upload My Past Publishing Statements?
- How Do I Know Whether to Submit Tax Forms as a Business or Individual?
- Can My Band Join Songtrust?
- Why Does Songtrust Need My W-9 Information?
- How Can I Make the Most out of Songtrust's YouTube Tool?
- What Happens When I Claim A Video in My YouTube Tool?
- Why Do I Have to Choose U.S. Representation If I Am Affiliated With a Foreign PRO?
- Why Would I Register My YouTube Channel With Songtrust?
- Can I Merge Songtrust Accounts?
Account Settings
Adding Songwriters
- Can You Affiliate Writers and Publishers?
- Can I Access the Performing Rights Organization (PRO) Application Through My Account on the Songtrust Site?
- Adding a Songwriter Demo
- Where Can I Put My Artist Name?
- What is an IPI Number?
- Who is Considered an Outside Writer When Adding Songs to My Songtrust Account?
- Should I Include My Publishing Company When Adding Myself as a Writer?
- What is the Difference Between an IPI Number and a CAE Number?
- What If I Have Multiple Artist Names and One Writer?
- Do I Need to Add Stage Names or Aliases to My Songtrust Account?
- What If I Already Registered with a Performing Rights Organization (PRO) Under Another Name?
- Are Producers Considered Songwriters?
- How Many Songwriters Can I List on My Song?
- What Happens if I Have Two Publishing Entities?
- Under Which Name Should I Register My Works?
- Can I Be Represented by a Publisher That is Not Affiliated With the Same Performing Rights Organization (PRO) as Myself? (United States PROs)
- Can I apply to become a member of a PRO through Songtrust?
Song Registration Process
- Are there any types of compositions Songtrust will not administer?
- What Are Common Mistakes Creators Make When Registering Music?
- Which of My Songs Can I Register With Songtrust?
- Can I Register a Cover Song with Songtrust?
- Can I Register a Song With Samples?
- Adding A Song Demo
- If I No Longer Control My Publisher Share, Can I Still Submit That Song to Songtrust?
- How Do I Register My Songs If I’ve Belonged to More Than One PRO?
- Can I Register Songs With Co-Writers Who Are Not Songtrust Clients?
- How Many Songs Can I Register With Songtrust?
- Can I Register Any Remixes or Alternate Mixes of My Songs?
- Why Is Songtrust Listed as Controlling All of My Publishing?
- How Do I Upload Recordings In My Account?
- Why Do You Ask About Ownership for a Song’s Music and Lyrics?
- How do I find my ISRCs if my music isn’t on Spotify?
- Do I Have to do Anything With My Performing Rights Organization (PRO) Anymore?
- Can I Register an Arrangement of a Public Domain Song?
- Do I Need Separate ISRCs For Video and Sound Recordings?
- Can I Register a Spoken Word Piece?
- Can I Switch My Performing Rights Organization (PRO) Affiliation?
- Can I Register a Musical Parody?
- How Do I Register a Song Where I Control All of the Publishing But I Am Not the Only Writer?
- Should I Add a Song to My Account If My Co-Writer Already Registered It?
- Can Songtrust Register a Song Without an ISRC?
- How Do I Register a Song If I Am In a Co-Publishing Deal?
- Where Do I Add Publisher and Writer Splits?
- How Can I Add ISRC Information To My Catalog?
- How Do I Decide on Splits?
- Should I Register Songs Directly At My Performing Rights Organization (PRO) As Well As With Songtrust?
- Do You Need a Universal Product Code (UPC) for My Songs?
- How Can I Add My ISRC If a Song is Not on Spotify?
- Can I Register Instrumental Versions of My Songs?
- How Do I Register a Song That Uses My Beat With Songtrust?
- How Is Registering a Song With Songtrust Different From BMI?
- When Should I Submit Alternate Spellings to Collection Societies?
- Everything You Need to Know About ISRCs
- Everything You Need to Know About ISWCs
- Do You Need Release Information If I Put Out My Own Record?
- If I Perform My Own Songs, Do I Need to Add Release Information?
- If Someone Covers My Song, Do I Need to Create a Separate Registration?
- I Made an Arrangement of a Classical Work that is in the Public Domain. Should I Register it as Classical?
- Do I Need to Make Separate Registrations if There Are Multiple Recordings of My Song?
- Why do you Need Recording Information?
- I Scored A Film With Orchestral Music. How Should I Register It?
- If the Ownership of a Song Changes, Would I Need to have a new ISRC Assigned?
- How can I add Additional Recordings to a Song that is Already in My Songtrust Account?
- A Song I Co-Wrote is in My PRO Account, but I am not Listed as a Co-writer. How can I get added and begin Collecting Royalties ?
- Can I Assign ISRCs for Recordings Owned by Others?
- What if I Wrote the Song with Other People who do not have Songtrust?
- Do I Register Arrangements as "Classical"?
- How do I register an album or EP in my Songtrust account?
- What does the Monitoring Song Status mean?
Troubleshooting
- How Do I Delete a Songwriter From My Account?
- How Do I Edit Song Information After I’ve Added a Song?
- What if I Am Having Trouble Adding My Songwriter?
- How Can I Delete/Cancel a Song from My Account?
- Why won't You Accept the ISWC Information I Am Trying to add to My Song?
- Why Won't you Accept the ISRC I am Trying to add to my Song?
- What if I Encountered An Error Message Signing Up?
- Why Are There Duplicate Registrations Showing Up At My Performing Rights Society (PRO) & What Can I Do About It?
- Why am I seeing the error "Something went wrong with this writer’s LOD Application"?
- How Do I Transfer My Registrations From Another Publisher To Songtrust?
Identity Verification
- Is My Information Safe?
- What If I Don’t Complete the Identity Verification Process?
- What Information Do I Need to Complete The Identity Verification Process?
- Why Do I Need to Go Through an Identity Verification Process?
- What is Identity Verification?
- What Should I Do If I’m Having Trouble Verifying My Identity?
- How Long Will the Verification Process Take?