Why join Song Central ?

As a Member of SongCentral, you become part of an online community of new and established songwriters, composers, lyricists and members of industries that use original music. Song Central is a platform that puts professionalism and resources right at your fingertips. Membership fees start from $15 per annum (excl. gst).

What can membership of this site do for you?

By becoming a financial member of Song Central you can upload, back-up store and play your MP3 or demo files. You can manage your material and find co-writers and other creatives and performers to help you develop and/or record it. You have access to the non-public areas of the site where you can find out about news, competitions, industry briefs and tenders.

Fees are based on the number of songs/music you wish to store over a period of a year. And, as your song back-log grows you can increase the amount of material you store.

What’s the Membership Process?

1. Register your personal details and submit your email address together with a password.
2. Then login into the site and you will be taken to the ‘Members area’ section where you can click on a link that will enable you to complete your membership as a songwriter/composer member.
3. Select your membership level - based upon the number of songs you anticipate wanting to store and develop in the first year (see details of fees below)
4. You’ll then be taken to the PayPal website to pay your first annual subscription
5. You’ll be sent a confirmation email that our payment has been processed
6. Next time you login, you’ll go straight to your personal Home Page and be able to access all membership areas of the site. Click here to begin by registering your details.

What can I do once I’m a member?

From a personal Home Page, you are able to store and develop your music, add to and manage versions of your material, access ‘insider’ news, announcements, information and commercial opportunities, including industry tenders or briefs.

Coming (very soon now) you’ll be able to post requests for co-writers, singers, lyricists, musicians, producers etc. via an online noticeboard. Stay tuned for details.

You now also have the opportunity to elevate your selected material to our SHOWCASE database. This is the area of the site where songs/music can be searched and streamed-on-demand by industry browsers (see showcasing details below). Please note - only registered industry user members of Song Central can access the showcase database.

Membership Fees

When to Showcase Your Songs or Music

Showcased material should be at the point where you believe it's ready for professionall consideration and for investment in marketing via the showcase database.

It is your choice which songs or music to showcase and when, but it is in your interests to showcase only your best material in a good demo format. Industry users will tire of listening to unfinished, poor quality and/or poorly recorded songs/music that have been showcased opportunistically. So select your material for showcasing wisely.

There are many benefits to showcasing your best songs and music:

• Showcased songs & music become accessible to large numbers of potential users from a wide range of industries. Your material does the walking and talking for you - you don't have to know someone or be known. Someone will contact you if they are interested in your material.
• Showcased songs and music can be submitted to industry tenders/briefs and/or submitted for review by a professional
• Showcased songs and music can be found by potential professional co-writers or collaborators for further development

Showcasing Professionally Recognised Material:

All songs and music are stored in Song Central’s showcase database. However, material that has been written by a professional songwriter/composer or that has received professional recognition is distinguished by a P symbol.

Professional recognition means that the material has:

• achieved a successful result in a known songwriting/music competition
• been jointly composed with a professional or had professional input
• been deemed to have commercial potential by a professional song/music reviewer

What is a Professional Songwriter?

Songwriters/Composers are considered to be Professional Songwriters if:

• their major source of income is derived from writing songs and/or
• they have, or have had, songs released commercially by record label/film or other and/or other commercial entity and/or
• they are listed as a professional in a published music directory

Fees for Showcasing

There is one standard fee for showcasing songs/music. There is one fee for showcasing lyrics only (no sound file).

the annual showcasing fee is based upon $30 per song/music (incl. lyrics & MP3) however with the new member special offering generous discounts - showcasing fees can start from $15 per song...(see below)

SPECIAL OFFER…!

(As mentioned in membership table above) more details regarding the special showcasing offer for new members is tabled below:

Lyrics only?

Songwriters wishing to submit lyrics only for showcasing are subject to different pricing - please contact admin@songcentral.com.au for details of this pricing and how you can

Click here to register

Benefits of Authenticating Yourself

Industry Users like to have some assurance they are dealing with people who ‘are who they say they are’. So, if you provide us with the requested proof of identity and we will add to your songwriter profile which will be visible to industry users as they sample your song(s). See FAQ for more details.

Songs/Music Classification.

Click here to view Song/music genres & sub-genres