Music Business Resources

ASCAP - The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services.

BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc. is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music from BMI's repertoire

SESAC - the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers is a for-profit performance-rights organization in the United States.

The Mechanical Licensing Collective - The MLC is a nonprofit organization that administers blanket mechanical licenses to DSPs in the United States and collects the royalties and pay songwriters, composers, lyricists, and music publishers.

The Harry Fox Agency - HFA is a provider of rights management and collector and distributor of mechanical license fees on behalf of music publishers in the United States.

SoundExchange - SoundExchange is an American non-profit collective rights management organization founded in 2003. It is the sole organization designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings.

The Recording Academy - The Recording Academy aka is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is famous for its Grammy Awards, which recognize achievements in the music industry of songs and music which are popular worldwide.

The Recording Industry Association of America - The RIAA is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

Copyright Office - The United States Copyright Office, a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that maintains records of copyright registration, including a copyright catalog. It is used by copyright title searchers who are attempting to clear a chain of title for copyrighted works.

Spotify for Artist - Spotify for Artists gives you and your team the tools to build a following that makes anything possible.

Apple for Artist - Understand your audience, promote your music, add lyrics, and customize your Apple Music artist page. Find out how your fans react to songs and albums, as well as where you’re getting the most plays all in an easy-to-use interface. 

The Nashville Songwriters Association International - NSAI is a 501(c) not-for-profit trade organization that works to help songwriters in three ways: through legislative advocacy, through education and advice about the actual craft of songwriting, and through teaching about the music industry, and how to best position a song for success within it.

Songwriters Guild of America - The SGA is an organization to help "advance, promote, and benefit" the profession of songwriters.