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# TuneCore Takes On Songwriter Royalties With New Game Changing Service
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/tunecore-takes-on-songwriter-royalties-with-new-game-changing-service/
- Published: 2011-11-02T12:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-11-02T12:56:00.000Z
- Description: (UPDATE 2) With today's launch of a new service, TuneCore hopes to help revolutionize songwriter royalty collection as it did digital music distribution. The company's Songwriter Publishing Administration Service helps. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/11/tunecore-takes-on-song
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

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(UPDATE 2) With today's launch of a new service, **TuneCore** hopes to help revolutionize songwriter royalty collection as it did digital music distribution. The company's **Songwriter Publishing Administration Service** helps navigate the confusing world of **global performing rights organizations** (PROs) and speeds often slow payments directly to the creator. Tunecore has also cut **direct deals** with **iTunes**, **Spotify** and some other digital music services that eliminate PROs and other middlemen entirely.

**DETAILS & THE COMPETITION**

  
Tunecore's new royalty collection arm charges a **$49.99 plus 10%** of funds collected. That's typically much less than the traditional combination performing rights organizations and publisher's charge, and far less hassle for the artist. But the percentage is **a major departure** from Tunecore's touted flat fee music distribution model.

The new service will **collect funds for anyone** – brand new songwriters and established ones. Nine Inch Nails front man **Trent Reznor**, who has used TuneCore to distribute his music since 2008, has signed on to the new songwriter servIce. In fact, with a distribution customer base which the company says includes more than 100,000 active users, TuneCore could rapidly become a major force in royalty collection.

> **UPDATE:** According to a Tunecore spokesperson: "At the moment **you do need to distribute through TuneCore to use the new service**. But plans are in the works for that to change so that any rights holder could sign up."

Tunecore's **[Songwriter Publishing Administration Service](http://www.tunecore.com/songwriters?ref=hypebot.com) will:**

- globally register copyrights
- collects money that is due
- protect and police copyrights
- issues licenses

As Nine Inch Nails and No Doubt manager Jim Guerinot, told the [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203707504577012253235420394.html?ref=hypebot.com), Tunecore founder and CEO Jeff Price has once again "managed to **find a very inefficient part of our business that's nontransparent and created an opportunity.**" The new songwriter service continues to deliver on Price's oft stated promise to deliver "more money, more quickly, with transparency" to artists.

**FLAT FEE COMPETION: SONGTRUST**

But Tunecore's Songwriter Publishing Administration Service has competition and at least one has adopted Tunecore's original flat fee model. **[Songtrust](https://www.songtrust.com/?ref=hypebot.com),** a division of established independent publisher Downtown Music launched a similar service several months ago with a **flat fee structure** ranging from **$50 – $100 a year per album** plus optional monthly add-ons.

Songtrust says the company just **issued its first royalty distribution** to beta customers, which they say came from 15 different income types ranging from radio and Internet streaming to plays on digital jukeboxes.

**Here's the official TuneCore Songwriter Publishing Administration Service intro video:**

[TuneCore Songwriter Service](http://vimeo.com/31220150?ref=hypebot.com) from [TuneCore](http://vimeo.com/user7289734?ref=hypebot.com) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=hypebot.com).