Songview Expected to Expand US PRO Data to 38M Musical Works

Songview, a public performance copyright database originally launched by ASCAP and BMI in 2020, is expanding to include data from all four major U.S. performing rights organizations: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and Global Music Rights (GMR). This expansion will provide a comprehensive resource featuring information for over 38 million musical works, offering the most authoritative view of public performance copyright ownership and administration shares from a single platform. The integration of SESAC and GMR data will start with fully owned works, while data on jointly owned compositions and publisher names for split ownership works will be added in the coming months, with ownership percentages planned for future updates. Songview aims to address long-standing issues of fragmented and opaque copyright data, improving transparency for licensees, venues, promoters, and artists by consolidating metadata including songwriter and publisher credits, performer names, and industry-standard identifiers. This collaboration has been praised by industry leaders and lawmakers, including Congressman Scott Fitzgerald, as a significant step towards greater transparency and more informed licensing decisions in the U.S. music industry. By uniting the data of all major PROs, Songview marks a major advance in the modernization of music licensing and copyright data accessibility.