Industry News October 19, 2026 Rights & Royalties Musixmatch acquires Music Reports, Inc. In its first-ever acquisition, Musixmatch is buying the Los Angeles-based rights administration company behind the Songdex copyright registry. The goal: grow from a lyrics and metadata service into a “full-stack rights and royalties platform.” Lyrics & Metadata → + Music Reports &
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The person who picks the song, clears the song, and sequences the album rarely gets a credit anyone remembers. Here is what the job involves, and how it shows up in five Sunset Music soundtrack and compilation releases. Between the Director and the Lawyer: How Music Supervision Really Works | Sunset Music Sunset Music Catalog
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This week’s sync requests, sorted by deadline. Read the brief, hit the reference, apply before the counter runs out. Two Fights, One Question: Who Gets Paid When a Machine Plays or Makes the Music | Sunset Music Sunset Music Catalog Sync Briefs Partners Journal Sunset Music Journal · Industry Watch Two Fights, One Question: Who
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Supernatural Steps Out on Its Own, and What Its New Music License Means for Songwriters — Sunset Music Sunset Music Catalog Sync Briefs Partners Journal Sunset Music Journal · Sync & Licensing Supernatural Steps Out on Its Own, and What Its New Music License Means for Songwriters A VR fitness service built around music leaves
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Licensing & Distribution Network Licensing & Distribution Our partner network Music, creative assets, and multimedia content — connected to filmmakers, broadcasters, advertisers, retailers, and creators worldwide, through the partners below. Network coverage Inside the Network: Every Partner Carrying Sunset Music Catalog Into the World — Sunset Music Sunset Music Catalog Sync Briefs Partners Journal Sunset
Why We Point Our Artists Toward Musicbed — Sunset Music Sunset Music Catalog Sync Briefs Partners Journal Sunset Music Journal · Partner Spotlight Why We Point Our Artists Toward Musicbed Less than one percent of submissions make it into their catalog. That rejection rate is exactly why supervisors trust every result they click, and why
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The Song Two Presidents’ Row Couldn’t Quit — Sunset Music Sunset Music Catalog Sync Briefs Partners Journal Sunset Music Journal The Song Two Presidents’ Row Writers Couldn’t Quit How a 1927 blues recording ended up scoring a Texas rib joint on House of Cards, a NASA monologue on The West Wing, and a spacecraft now
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Somewhere over the Pacific right now, a plane is taxiing toward a gate while a Sunset Music track hums quietly under the boarding announcements. Nobody in that cabin knows it. That’s the job. Good background music disappears into the moment it’s supporting, and that invisibility is exactly why the partnerships behind it deserve a closer
Anyone who has ever flipped through the track list of a genre compilation, a blockbuster movie soundtrack, or one of those long running franchise albums that seem to reinvent themselves every few years has looked at a piece of music history without realizing how much legal machinery had to turn behind the scenes to make
There is a particular sound that anyone who has spent serious time producing video content will recognize instantly, even if they can’t quite place where they first heard it. It is a flat, synthetic, almost bored-sounding voice that interrupts an otherwise polished piece of music to announce, plainly and without apology, the name of the
