Comparison

Songstats vs ASCAP

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Songstats

Monitor music performance across streaming services, social media, and download stores. Gain insights into popularity, trends, and audience engagement. Track radio airplay worldwide and optimize promotion strategies with data-driven analytics.

Highlights
  • Performance tracking across platforms
  • Real-time activity feed
  • Audience insights and demographics
  • Detailed PDF/CSV reports
  • Social media sharing tools
  • AI-driven radio airplay monitoring
  • Royalty collection service
Features
Currently charting
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Songstats gives artists, labels, managers, and music industry teams one place to track streaming stats, playlist placements, chart positions, radio airplay, audience growth, and social momentum across major music platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Shazam, SoundCloud, and Beatport. With real-time music data and cross-platform insights, Songstats helps you understand release momentum, monitor fan growth, spot promotional opportunities, and make smarter marketing decisions from one mobile dashboard. Track performance across Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Shazam, 1001Tracklists, Beatport, Traxsource, iTunes, SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter / X, Bandsintown, Songkick, and more. Radiostats expands Songstats with AI-driven radio airplay monitoring across more than 50,000 radio stations and TV channels worldwide. Get real-time radio play updates, detailed airplay analytics, and access to a Royalty Collection service that helps you claim potential royalties from plays on SiriusXM. KEY FEATURES • Cross-Platform Music Analytics: Track streams, listeners, followers, views, playlist adds, chart positions, radio plays, and social growth across major music platforms. • Real-Time Activity Feed: Get notified when your tracks enter charts, land on playlists, reach milestones, receive comments, or generate new radio airplay. • Playlist & Chart Tracking: Monitor playlist placements, chart movement, supporter activity, and release momentum across global platforms and territories. • Audience Insights: Understand where your listeners and fans are growing with audience demographics, city-level trends, geographic reach, and engagement data. • Radio Airplay Monitoring: Use Radiostats to track radio and TV plays across more than 50,000 stations and channels worldwide, including SiriusXM royalty collection support. • Shareable Milestones: Turn playlist adds, chart entries, radio plays, Shazams, and social achievements into custom artworks for Instagram Stories and other social channels. • Reports & Exports: Create PDF and CSV reports for your team, label, management, artists, or clients. • Music Marketing Tools: Discover playlist, creator, artist, label, and venue recommendations to support smarter promotion and release strategy. • Widgets & Apple Watch: Keep key artist and label stats visible from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. WHY GO PREMIUM? Unlock deeper analytics, full-catalog tracking, real-time activity alerts, advanced audience insights, detailed reports, marketing recommendations, and premium radio monitoring with Songstats Premium. Subscribe to an individual artist or label to track their full catalog and receive push notifications for key activity across streaming, playlist, chart, social, and radio platforms. For teams, labels, managers, A&Rs, and industry professionals who need broader access, the Songstats Professional Plan provides comprehensive music analytics across the wider industry in one subscription. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually at the rate selected depending on the subscription plan. Subscriptions auto-renew at the cost of the chosen package, unless canceled 24-hours in advance prior to the end of the current period. The subscription fee is charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Per Apple policy, no cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Once purchased, refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Terms of Service & Privacy Policy: https://songstats.com/terms-of-service

About

ASCAP

This app helps ASCAP members manage their music catalog, register new works, and track royalty distributions. It also offers tools for finding collaborators, accessing educational resources, and discovering industry events.

Highlights
  • Manage music and metadata
  • Register new music
  • Scan catalog for data health
  • Check royalty distributions
  • Find collaborators
  • Access music industry education
  • Discover events
Features
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If you're an ASCAP songwriter, composer or music publisher, you've come to the right place. The ASCAP app connects you to your ASCAP account, with innovative tools to help you get the most out of your membership, and boost your music career. Think of it as a music manager in your pocket. With the ASCAP app you can: - Manage your music and metadata to make sure you’re set up to get paid for your creative work - Add to your ASCAP catalog with our step-by-step guided or quick registration options - Take a work registration quiz for guidance on how to register your new music - Scan your entire catalog with our data health check, and quickly add any missing metadata to help ASCAP get you paid - Check up on your latest ASCAP royalty distributions - Find new collaborators and mentors with the ASCAP Connections messaging platform - Educate yourself on how the money flows in the music industry, and learn how to sustain your music career, whether you’re an experienced creator or just starting out - Find workshops, competitions and networking events near you What is ASCAP? ASCAP is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, a performing rights organization (PRO) representing over 1.1 million of the greatest songwriters, composers and music publishers in the world. We’re the only PRO in America operating on a not-for-profit basis, and the only one that puts creators first. We get you paid when your music is played ASCAP’s main job is to pay you royalties when your music is played publicly by the businesses we license. And we’re really good at what we do! In 2024, we achieved revenues of $1.835 billion, and distributed $1.696 billion to our songwriter, composer and publisher members. We put music creators first We pay our members all of the music licensing revenue we take in, minus our operating expenses (among the lowest in the industry). Our governing documents require us to pay music creators first – a claim that only ASCAP can make. We’re led by music creators like you ASCAP is the only PRO in the US founded and governed by songwriters, composers and music publishers. Every decision about how we operate is made by music creators like you – not broadcasters, corporations and investors, like our competitors. We innovate ASCAP offers the most advanced data processing systems of any PRO, to ensure that you get paid fairly and accurately. Our ASCAP Lab explores how new technologies and new business approaches can drive value for our members and the businesses that use their music.

Screenshots

Songstats4 screens
ASCAP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ASCAP at none against Songstats's 10. Songstats's advantage is review sentiment (89% vs 69%) and ratings volume (733 vs 35). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Songstats sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. ASCAP asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Songstats against 4.5 for ASCAP. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Songstats has 733 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Songstats's written reviews are positive against 69% of ASCAP's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Songstats ships an update every 10 days, ASCAP monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Songstats versus ASCAP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSongstatsASCAP
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (733 ratings) — better4.5 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews — better69.2% of reviews
Number of ratings733 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#116 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB67 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperThe Stats CompanyASCAP

Customer experience

Songstats

All ratings719 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews542 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral3.5%
Negative7.9%

ASCAP

All ratings35 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative15.4%

Bugs and requests

Songstats

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login issues
  • Delayed data updates

Requested features

2 requests
  • Integration with more platforms (e.g. Pandora)
  • Customizable sharing options for social media

ASCAP

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Songstats

Subscriptions10
  • Artist #1 (Monthly)7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Artist #3 (Monthly)7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Artist #2 (Monthly)7 Days trial$11.991 Month
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  • Artist #4 (Monthly)7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Label #1 (Monthly)7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Artist #2 + Radio (Monthly)7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Artist #1 + Radio (Monthly)7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Professional Plan (Monthly)7 Days trial$99.991 Month
  • Artist #1 (Yearly)7 Days trial$119.991 Year
  • Artist #1 + Radio (Yearly)7 Days trial$199.991 Year
None

ASCAP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Songstats free?
Songstats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ASCAP free?
ASCAP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Songstats or ASCAP?
Songstats is rated higher. Songstats averages 4.6 out of 5 from 733 ratings, while ASCAP averages 4.5 from 35 ratings.
Do Songstats or ASCAP have ads?
Neither Songstats nor ASCAP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Songstats or ASCAP?
Songstats ships an update every 10 days, and ASCAP monthly. Most recently, Songstats was updated on November 11, 2026 and ASCAP on November 3, 2026.

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