SongTrust EXPOSED | What They Don't Want You To Know
8K views · Feb 3, 2026 · Education
Comments · 87
@rhythmmind · 7 months ago
Been following you and value your insights. I have good music, I create and produce my own content. Right now I'm getting my foundation and infrastructure solid.
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@djKleanMuzic · 7 months ago
Man you just Schooled me!
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@RehsorOne · 4 months ago
So happy that i ran into your channel i just hit my 66th song on song trust but we have a total of over 100 songs and it would of been so much more work if i didnt see this video now before i continued with them
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@proc577 · 7 months ago
I truly appreciate you taking the time to make this video. Feels like you peeped out my comment a week or two ago. Thank you for confirming my suspicions in this public setting and helping us all out with some golden info. I've been going through it with Songtrust, myself, trying to get answers out of them...obviously to no avail. ASCAP doesn't want to touch the subject no matter how generalized I pose questions. This is the first I've ever heard of Music Reports, so I really appreciate that info, as well. One last account to open, and I'm just fine with that. The feeling of going forward knowing your works are secure is a beautiful thing. Been watching your videos here and there for a year or two, but you got a new subscriber out of this...plus I gotta share this one with my people. Thanks, man, for all your knowledge and hard work to research and share via some high quality videos. Much love✌
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@michaelknight5589 · 1 month ago
God bless you man!
@aproducernamed2 · 7 months ago
Good info🤜🏾🤛🏾
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@michaellogozar · 5 months ago
I just audited my history of statements from all sources and found that Songtrust didn't even do their basic job on 77 out of 242 registrations -- I've got tracks 5+ years old and about 70+Million streams that never got performance royalties and/or mechanicals because they never were fully registered with my PRO or the mechanical royalty orgs. Support tickets with them often take many months to resolve.
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@JasmineMershon · 6 months ago
Thanks!
@creativegeenyus1819 · 7 months ago (edited)
I wanna say that you’re the second individual that I’ve seen that’s spoke on this matter. There’s a page called Make Music Income. The guy who runs it made a video titled “The real TRUTH about songtrust” two years ago and he interviewed a young lady who is an employee with them i don’t know if she is still there. But there is a short highlighting what this woman said in reference to songtrust not collecting all of the international royalties like that even though they are taking 15% of your royalties. I seen someone in the comments of the video advising in a list to sign up to several services. He said<br><br>Create an LLC<br>Create PRO account (like, ASCAP)<br>Create a Mechanical Licensing Collective account<br>Create a Harry Fox account<br>Create a Music Reports account<br>Create a Sound Exchange account<br>Create a distribution account like <br>Symphonic)<br>Create a Cosynd account<br><br>That’s to avoid to the deduction of 15% of your royalties getting taken away.<br>Just thought I share that.
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@kngran · 6 months ago
Wait what 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ sigh....
@penstar · 7 months ago
Wow, great info mate, thanks for your research!
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@KEYWARDJ · 4 months ago
I have several questions. 1. How do I handle international royalties? Would I need a sub-publishing service for the territories? If I have the MLC Music Report, Harry Fox, BMI Composers and Publishers, and the rest, what's the recommendation? 2. Can I release those services (MLC, Harry Fox, BMI Music Report) on Kosing? 3. Would it be advisable to release on Kosing? Or should I do it independently?
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