Cover Song Licensing

Why choose soundrop to distribute cover songs?.

Soundrop simplifies the process of licensing & distributing cover songs.

For just 99¢ per cover song, soundrop covers:

  • SECURE YOUR COVER-SONG LICENSE­–FOREVER
  • NOTIFY PUBLISHERS AND RIGHTS HOLDERS
  • AUTOMATICALLY PAY MECHANICAL ROYALTIES TO THE SONGS' PUBLISHERS – ALSO FOREVER

Publishing Information

Cover song licensed approved.

How Soundrop cover-song licensing works

Release

Make a release with metadata, audio, and artwork, ensuring everything needed for distribution is included.

Publishing Information

Add original song copyright details which can help to secure license more quick and efficiently

Payment

Pay $0.99 per license. Ensure compliance and support artists while enhancing your content.

Approval

Soundrop team checks release metadata, if release covers the licensing eligiblity requirements

Licensing

After release metadata is approved, it goes into licensing which usually takes 2-3 weeks.

Release live

Great news! The release is now live on your favorite stores after completing the licensing process. Hooray!

Distribution

Distribute your music beyond youtube and facebook. Soundrop will distribute your cover songs to the world’s top platforms.

  • Get your cover songs on the world’s top music platforms
  • Properly license those cover songs — for life
  • Automatically pay mechanical royalties to the composers
  • Split revenue with all your collaborators (at no cost)

Reporting & analytics

Accounting with Soundrop is easy.

Every month without fail soundrop collects your revenue from digital music services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and more — and we pay it to you quickly!

  • Total monthly earnings
  • Earnings by platform, song, artist, etc.
  • Mechanical royalties paid to publishers/songwriters
  • Charts & graphs to visualize data based on format, platform, territory, track, album, artist, or time period

Soundrop handles the collection of your earnings, mechanical royalty payments, revenue splits, and accounting.
For you, it’s simple: You get paid monthly.

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