Musixmatch Pro vs ASCAP

Musixmatch Pro is a platform designed by and for artists, empowering them to make the most out of their lyrics. Distribute your official lyrics to Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, Google, and more to enrich your fans' experience and reach new audiences worldwide. Verify your artist and start manage your lyrics. With Pro, you can add your official lyrics, sync them with your music, and enrich them with metadata like song structure, credits, and translations. You can do it yourself or save time by leveraging our AI transcription and synchronization tools. Effortlessly perfect your lyrics for distribution when you outsource to our expert curators, who will guarantee the best output possible. Leverage the creative potential of Lyric Video Maker to promote your music by generating high-quality videos with perfectly synchronized lyrics, professional templates, animations, and transitions. FEATURES LYRIC DISTRIBUTION • Verify your artist to take control over your official lyrics and create an artist profile on Musixmatch.com • Distribute your lyrics on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music and digital media platforms like Instagram, Google, Snapchat, and more. LYRIC TRANSCRIPTION & SYNCHRONIZATION • Add your plain lyrics and synchronize them line-by-line and word-by-word. • Enrich your lyrics with metadata like song structure, credits, and translations. SAVE TIME WITH OUR AI TOOLS OR OUTSOURCE THEM • Leverage AI tools and save time with automatic transcription and synchronization. • Purchase outsourcing services to have Musixmatch expert curators perfect your lyrics for all platforms. LYRIC VIDEO MAKER • Create captivating lyric videos in just a few clicks on our mobile web experience. • Effortlessly create video content to promote your music. • Access our easy-to-use video templates and existing assets, or customize and personalize videos. • Produce high-quality professional lyric videos with perfectly synchronized lyrics. • Play with transitions, font types, animations, graphic elements, filters, and more effects. • Unlock the power of generative AI to create videos from your lyrics, starting from your song's meaning. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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.