Do I need a publishing administrator?
Royalties & publishing
Once your songs earn meaningful royalties — especially internationally — usually yes. A publishing admin registers your songs with collection societies worldwide and collects royalties your PRO and MLC memberships alone can't reach, for a commission.
PRO plus MLC covers the US baseline. But mechanicals and performance royalties are collected by different societies in every country, and no independent writer registers with all of them personally. Publishing administrators exist to do exactly that at scale.
The tradeoff is a commission on publishing revenue, so timing matters: negligible royalties mean the admin has little to collect, while a catalog with real streams almost always nets more with one. When you're ready, Musavise can connect you with a vetted publishing administrator — and your catalog export gives them clean data to onboard from.
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