Songtrust

Songtrust is a New York City-based music publishing administration platform and a Downtown Music company. The service helps songwriters, producers, composers, and independent publishers register their compositions and collect global publishing royalties — including performance, mechanical, digital, micro-sync, and neighboring rights — through a network of 65+ collection societies and pay sources across 240 countries and territories. Songtrust's web-based dashboard provides song registration, catalog management, writer and publisher splits, royalty statement matching, metadata enrichment, weekly song monitoring, and quarterly payouts, while letting clients retain 100% ownership of their copyrights. The commercial model is a one-time $100 sign-up fee per songwriter plus 15% of collected performance royalties and 20% of non-performance royalties — positioned as a transparent flat-rate alternative to traditional publisher deals. As of this profile, Songtrust does not expose a public developer API, OpenAPI specification, SDK, or partner integration portal; the platform is consumed exclusively through the Songtrust client dashboard at app.songtrust.com. Integrations and data exchange with PROs, mechanical rights societies, DSPs, and Downtown sister companies are operated internally rather than through a documented public surface.

Songtrust is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Music Publishing, Publishing Administration, Royalty Collection, Performance Royalties, and Mechanical Royalties.

Songtrust’s developer surface includes signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, support, GitHub presence, YouTube channel, and 16 more developer resources.

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17.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

Music PublishingPublishing AdministrationRoyalty CollectionPerformance RoyaltiesMechanical RoyaltiesSongwritersComposersMusic RightsCopyrightPROCollection SocietiesMusic MetadataCatalog ManagementDowntown MusicEntertainment

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Login

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Support

Support

ContactSales

ContactSales

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Twitter

Twitter

LinkedIn

Instagram

Instagram

Facebook

Facebook

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Application

Application

PublishingAdministration

PublishingAdministration

MusicPublishing101

MusicPublishing101

ResourceCenter

ResourceCenter

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: songtrust
name: Songtrust
description: Songtrust is a New York City-based music publishing administration platform and a Downtown Music company. The
  service helps songwriters, producers, composers, and independent publishers register their compositions and collect global
  publishing royalties — including performance, mechanical, digital, micro-sync, and neighboring rights — through a network
  of 65+ collection societies and pay sources across 240 countries and territories. Songtrust's web-based dashboard provides
  song registration, catalog management, writer and publisher splits, royalty statement matching, metadata enrichment, weekly
  song monitoring, and quarterly payouts, while letting clients retain 100% ownership of their copyrights. The commercial
  model is a one-time $100 sign-up fee per songwriter plus 15% of collected performance royalties and 20% of non-performance
  royalties — positioned as a transparent flat-rate alternative to traditional publisher deals. As of this profile, Songtrust
  does not expose a public developer API, OpenAPI specification, SDK, or partner integration portal; the platform is consumed
  exclusively through the Songtrust client dashboard at app.songtrust.com. Integrations and data exchange with PROs, mechanical
  rights societies, DSPs, and Downtown sister companies are operated internally rather than through a documented public surface.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/songtrust.png
tags:
- Music Publishing
- Publishing Administration
- Royalty Collection
- Performance Royalties
- Mechanical Royalties
- Songwriters
- Composers
- Music Rights
- Copyright
- PRO
- Collection Societies
- Music Metadata
- Catalog Management
- Downtown Music
- Entertainment
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/songtrust/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/songtrust-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.songtrust.com
- type: Application
  url: https://app.songtrust.com
- type: Signup
  url: https://app.songtrust.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.songtrust.com/login
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/pricing
- type: Features
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/features
- type: PublishingAdministration
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/publishing-administration
- type: MusicPublishing101
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/music-publishing-101
- type: ResourceCenter
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/resource-center
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.songtrust.com
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.songtrust.com
- type: Support
  url: https://help.songtrust.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
- type: ContactSales
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/contact-sales
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.songtrust.com/privacy-policy
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://downtownmusic.com
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Songtrust
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/songtrust
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/songtrust
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/songtrust
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@songtrust
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/songtrust
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com