Top 5 Music Administration Companies

Recently we wrote about What Is Music Administration?   It laid out in full detail what music administration was so artist who are ready to sign that type of deal can know what to expect. The gist of it is that a Music Administration Company handles the licensing and royalty collection of your music. A Performing Rights Organization does the same thing but only collects performing royalties.

An admin company takes things further by collecting streamed and download royalties of your music. A Publishing Administrator may also license and collect royalties for print, ringtones, and synchronization fees (for film and TV licenses).
 
 
Knowing this it is highly recommended that all artists register to both a PRO and a Music Administration Company Below we have listed the top music administration companies that we know of. It’s up to you to do your own research on them before inquiring about their artist admin services.

Top Music Administration Companies
I Musician

https://www.imusiciandigital.com/

The first company we’ve listed is iMusician, which is a Swiss based music start up offering musicians everything they need to sell, manage and monetize their music online. Run by a small, international team who are passionate about music, we like to think we do the hard work so you can concentrate on what’s important to you: making music!

 
 
Cd Baby

www.cdbaby.com

Artists like Macklemore, The Antlers, The National, and Bon Iver came up being distributed by CD Baby (their catalog titles remain there). Ingrid Michaelson and Gregory Alan Isakov have continued their partnerships with CD Baby throughout their decidedly independent and hugely successful careers.
Music Services

https://musicservices.org/about/publishing

As a music publisher administrator, Music Services provides a variety of ‘a la carte services’ to music publishers – song registration, licensing, royalty collections, royalty accounting to songwriters and co-publishers, sub-publishing through a network of contracted sub-publishers, and general music publishing consulting.

ION Music Administration

http://www.ionmusicadmin.com/

Third on our list is ION Music Administration. ION Music handles all aspects of copyright administration from the initial registration of a song to the collection of royalties, so your company can focus on song creation. We make sure all uses of songs are licensed and royalties paid. We help provide TV/Film placement and co-writing opportunities.

 
Kobalt

www.kobaltmusic.com

Kobalt’s pioneering collection technology platform bypasses the middleman and collects directly from societies, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and most major distributors resulting in 20–30% higher revenues for our artists and writers.