Registering your works in your Soundreef Account is the first and fundamental step to ensure the proper management and collection of your rights.
To get the most out of your registration, it is important to complete it with all the required details during the process.
Here are some useful tips to optimize your registration and improve the tracking of your music.
📝 1️⃣ Full chain of ownership: include all rights holders
✔ Always indicate all authors and publishers involved in the full chain of ownership.
✔ If the track has multiple owners, make sure to mention each of them, specifying:
Role (Author, Composer, Sub-author, Publisher, Sub-publisher, etc.)
PER % Shares (performance rights)
MEC % Shares (mechanical reproduction rights)
✔ If you know each owner's IPI code, include it: it helps correctly identify your co-authors/publishers and simplifies rights management.
📌 Changes in the chain of ownership?
If the track undergoes changes, such as the entry of a new publisher or changes in shares, contact us to update the registration. Where rights holders are also registered with other collecting societies, the change should be communicated to those societies as well to ensure consistency in rights management.
📜 2️⃣ Registration and List of Works Acceptance: Confirmation of Work Details and Ownership Shares
✔ The registration becomes official only after all involved Soundreef authors/publishers provide digital consent (acceptance of the List of Works).
✔ Without consent, the registration remains incomplete and cannot be managed for royalty collection.
✔ Periodically check your Soundreef account to ensure there are no ongoing registrations still awaiting consent.
📌 Need to review the registration details before providing consent? No problem — you can go back to the previous steps and verify all entered information. After consent has been given, any modifications will require contacting Support directly from your Account.
🎧 3️⃣ Add metadata: MP3 and ISRC code
✔ The MP3 file is not mandatory to register the work, but it is strongly recommended in order to view Soundreef Monitoring results for Radio/TV broadcasters.
✔ The ISRC code is the unique identifier linked to your audio track, essential for tracking online and YouTube usage.
📌 Where to obtain the ISRC code?
Contact the ISRC Registration Agency responsible for your territory.
If you have a digital distributor (Tunecore, Distrokid, CD Baby, etc.) enabled to issue it, the code might be automatically assigned to you at the time of publication.
👉 If you don't have the ISRC at the time of the Soundreef registration, you can add it later without any issues.
📌 Why upload the MP3?
To enable free real-time radio and TV monitoring.
To obtain Blockchain Certification, useful for certifying the existence and authorship of the track, as supporting documentation in case of plagiarism disputes.
🔄 4️⃣ Upload alternative versions of the track
If your track has different versions, you can add them to your profile:
✔ Radio version, remix, instrumental, acoustic, etc.
✔ Same chain of ownership? Add them as Versions of the same track.
✔ Different chain of ownership? Register them as separate tracks.
📌 You can upload additional versions at any time, by selecting the track and accessing the Versions tab.
🏷 5️⃣ Use Song Tags to easily organize and find your tracks
✔ Song Tags are customisable labels that help you classify your tracks, according to a specific criteria.
✔ They are useful for easily searching the repertoire and filtering reports in your account.
✔ You can assign Tags based on:
Music project
Collaborations with specific authors/publishers
Type of track (singles, soundtracks, jingles, etc.)
Specific use (Live, Radio, TV, YouTube)
📌 Where to add Song Tags?
You can set them during the registration process or add them later directly from the Work’s Tag section.
✅ Conclusion
Include all rights holders with the correct ownership shares.
1️⃣ Accept the List of Works via digital consent to complete the registration.
2️⃣ Accept the List of Works via digital consent to complete the registration.
3️⃣ Upload MP3 and ISRC to optimize usage tracking.
4️⃣ If you have alternative versions, add them to improve monitoring.
5️⃣ Use Song Tags to better organize your repertoire and simplify report searchs.
🎵 By following these tips, you optimize your track's registration and improve its management and royalty collection 🎵