{"id":98233,"date":"2021-01-18T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98233"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:22:19","slug":"songtrust","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/downtown-music-holdings\/songtrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Songtrust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Songtrust is a global music royalty\u00a0collection and publishing administration company headquartered in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.songtrust.com\/songtrust-celebrates-10th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enables over 350,000 songwriters<\/a>, producers, and other rightsholders to collect their publishing royalties worldwide for over 3m copyrights.<\/p>\n<p>Songtrust also provides publishing royalty collection solutions for corporate clients including CD Baby, Distrokid, Downtown Music Publishing, \u00a0Secretly Publishing, Sub Pop Publishing, and Trap Nations&#8217; label LOWLY.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, Songtrust has relationships with 60+ performance, mechanical, and digital societies globally covering 245 territories.<\/p>\n<p>Songtrust is owned by Downtown Music Holdings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>Appointment of Molly Neuman<\/h6>\n<p>In October 2019, Downtown Music Holdings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/molly-neuman-promoted-to-president-of-songtrust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that Molly Neuman had been appointed President of Songtrust.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Songtrust, Neuman was Head of Music at Kickstarter and Interim President and Vice President of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).<\/p>\n<p>Downtown CEO, Justin Kalifowitz, said: &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justin Kalifowitz said: \u201cMolly\u2019s leadership has been an essential element in Songtrust\u2019s tremendous growth over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is genuinely invested in the success of our songwriters and publisher clients, having been both herself, and is driven to help achieve Songtrust\u2019s goals of delivering equity and innovation to the music rights ecosystem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royalty collection company now services over 300,000 songwriters and rightsholders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49912,"parent":86388,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98233","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98233\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/86388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}