Updated July 2026
SyncRep Artist Member Guide
SyncRep begins increasing discovery as soon as your artist is verified and eligible tracks are certified. This guide covers additional, optional steps members can take to improve lyric visibility, licensing readiness, royalty collection, and their professional artist presence.
One of the most common questions we receive from SyncRep members is simple: “I certified my tracks. What happens now?”
Once your tracks are certified, they become eligible to surface within MusicAtlas discovery workflows used by music supervisors, filmmakers, production companies, agencies, and other music buyers.
MusicAtlas analyzes and organizes released music so it can be discovered through sound, sonic similarity, lyrics, lyrical themes, creative context, and licensing criteria. You do not need to repeatedly upload, submit, or pitch certified tracks to MusicAtlas.
Certification activates discovery. The steps below help strengthen it.
Certified tracks are not simply added to a public artist page and left there. They become part of a rights-ready discovery layer that MusicAtlas can surface when the music matches what an industry user is looking for.
A supervisor might search for a song that sounds similar to a reference track, contains a particular lyric, explores a specific emotional theme, fits a scene, or satisfies a combination of creative and licensing requirements.
SyncRep is primarily built around real-time search and discovery rather than sending every certified song through mass email pitches. Tracks may surface through searches, recommendations, playlists, partner tools, and other MusicAtlas workflows when they are relevant.
This significantly increases the number of ways independent music can be found without requiring artists to constantly submit the same songs over and over again.
SyncRep members do not need to complete a long list of additional tasks before their music becomes discoverable. Verification and certification are the steps that activate SyncRep discovery.
However, many artists have asked what else they can do to improve their chances, strengthen their rights and royalty infrastructure, and make their music easier for buyers to understand and act on.
The recommendations below are not requirements and cannot guarantee a placement. They are practical ways to give your music more searchable information, improve your readiness, and get more value from your lifetime membership.
It is natural to have one or two songs that you personally believe are the strongest candidates for sync. You may already picture a particular song in a commercial, television scene, trailer, or film.
Music supervisors, however, frequently search for very specific combinations of sound, tempo, lyric, story, energy, instrumentation, and emotional tone. The song that best fits a real production need may not be the one an artist would have predicted.
For that reason, we generally recommend certifying every eligible track for which you control the required master and publishing rights.
A broader certified catalog gives your music more opportunities to match the many different searches and creative needs that arise across film, television, advertising, games, trailers, and other media.
Many music supervisors do not begin with a genre or a specific artist. They begin with an idea.
They may need a song about growing older, falling in love, returning home, starting over, overcoming adversity, celebrating a victory, or saying goodbye. They may also be looking for a particular word, phrase, or lyrical image that supports a scene.
Musixmatch powers lyric search across MusicAtlas. When accurate lyrics are available through its system, your tracks have more opportunities to surface in searches involving lyrical phrases, subjects, stories, and themes.
If lyrics are missing, incomplete, or incorrect, a strong track may be harder to find through one of the most important paths supervisors use to discover music.
SyncRep members receive access to a Musixmatch member benefit. You can find the current details and access instructions inside the Membership Perks section of your SyncRep account.
Artists and songwriters should generally affiliate with the appropriate performing-rights organization, or PRO, in their country or region.
In the United States, the primary performing-rights organizations are ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. Other countries and regions have their own organizations.
Joining a PRO and registering an individual song are not always the same thing. After affiliating, make sure your compositions are properly registered and that songwriter names, publisher information, ownership shares, and other details are accurate.
A sync placement may create additional performance royalties when the resulting program is broadcast or publicly performed. Proper registration helps those royalties reach the correct songwriter and publisher.
Sync income is only one part of an artist’s broader royalty picture. The same preparation that helps you become more professionally organized for licensing may also help you collect revenue your existing recordings and compositions are already generating.
In the United States, artists and sound-recording owners should consider registering with SoundExchange, which collects and distributes certain digital performance royalties associated with sound recordings.
Artists who control their publishing may also benefit from working with a publishing administrator such as Songtrust, Sentric, or another appropriate service. Publishing administrators can help register compositions and collect certain publishing royalties across services and territories.
These services are not required to participate in SyncRep, and using them does not directly determine whether your music appears in MusicAtlas searches.
Before enrolling with any rights or royalty service, review its fees, territories, collection capabilities, contract terms, and cancellation policies to determine whether it is appropriate for your catalog.
Creative fit will always be the most important factor in a sync decision. However, when a buyer encounters an unfamiliar artist, a credible and easy-to-understand online presence can provide useful context.
A professional presence helps establish that the artist is active, legitimate, reachable, and prepared to participate in a commercial licensing process.
SyncRep includes several tools and member benefits that can help artists build that presence without requiring them to create an entirely separate promotional system.
Every verified artist receives a public MusicAtlas artist page that connects visitors with released music, streaming platforms, latest releases, similar artists, and MusicAtlas discovery tools.
Your artist page can also function as a professional link-in-bio destination at no additional cost. Instead of manually updating a separate page after every release, your MusicAtlas profile can provide a current place for fans and industry contacts to explore your catalog.
You can find and share your public artist page from within the Membership Perks section of your SyncRep account.
Independent editorial coverage can give listeners and industry professionals additional context around an artist, release, or song.
A published review may also provide useful material for an artist website, electronic press kit, social posts, release campaign, or other professional outreach.
Editorial coverage does not guarantee a placement and does not replace the need for a strong creative match. Its value is in helping establish a broader and more credible public presence around your music.
SyncRep members can find current editorial opportunities and other artist benefits inside the Membership Perks section of their account.
A standard streaming link shows people where to play a track. A MusicAtlas map can show them where the track sits within a larger world of sound.
Maps allow fans and industry visitors to explore sonic neighbors, similar songs, and connections between your music and officially released tracks from around the world.
MusicAtlas embeds can also be added to artist websites, blogs, electronic press kits, and release pages. They provide streaming links while giving visitors a more interactive way to understand the context around a song.
Members can access their artist maps and learn more about available embeds from their public artist page and SyncRep Membership Perks.
When you release new music, you can usually add it to MusicAtlas yourself directly from the MusicAtlas map. You do not need to wait for MusicAtlas Support to update your catalog.
Start by searching for your new track on the MusicAtlas map. Once you find the track, select it and use the Add Track button. This will automatically connect the new track to your artist account.
For singles, this usually means adding one track. For an EP or album, repeat the process for any tracks that are not already connected to your MusicAtlas artist page.
Once the new tracks appear on MusicAtlas, sign in to your SyncRep account and open Track Certifications. Review the new release and certify each eligible track for which you control the required master and publishing rights.
Adding a track to your public MusicAtlas artist page and certifying it for SyncRep are two separate steps. Adding the track connects it to your artist catalog. Certification confirms that it is eligible for representation and licensing discovery through SyncRep.
If you are unable to add a track through the MusicAtlas map, or experience any issues, contact MusicAtlas Support with your artist name, release title, and a link to the release.
You do not need to upload production files for every certified track in advance. However, it is helpful to know where your final materials are stored and be prepared to provide them quickly if interest develops.
Depending on the request, a buyer or production team may need:
Not every production requires every item. The goal is simply to avoid unnecessary delays if a track becomes a strong candidate for a real opportunity.
SyncRep was created to reduce the need for repetitive manual pitching and submissions. Once your eligible tracks are certified, you do not need to constantly resubmit them to MusicAtlas.
You also do not need to manually tag every song with dozens of moods, genres, scenes, or reference artists. MusicAtlas analyzes released music and builds the discovery data needed to support its search workflows.
Your role is to make sure the right tracks are certified, the available information around them is accurate, and you are ready to respond when a meaningful opportunity appears.
SyncRep can make eligible independent music substantially more discoverable inside MusicAtlas and provide buyers with a clearer view of which tracks are represented as licensing-ready.
No service can guarantee that a particular track will be selected, pitched individually, shortlisted, or licensed. Sync decisions depend on creative fit, production needs, budgets, rights, timing, client approval, and many other factors outside any single platform’s control.
The purpose of SyncRep is to create more opportunities for the right song to be found when the need arises and to reduce the structural disadvantages independent artists have historically faced in music discovery.
1. Certify every eligible track
Give your full rights-controlled catalog the opportunity to match different creative searches.
2. Add and verify your lyrics
Make accurate lyrics available through Musixmatch so your tracks can surface in lyric and theme searches.
3. Register your compositions
Affiliate with the appropriate PRO in your region and confirm that each song is properly registered.
4. Review your royalty collection
Consider SoundExchange and an appropriate publishing administrator where relevant.
5. Share your artist page
Use your MusicAtlas artist profile as a professional, automatically updated destination for your music.
6. Explore your membership benefits
Review available editorial opportunities, artist tools, partner benefits, maps, embeds, and other resources.
7. Add and certify new releases
Add new tracks through the MusicAtlas map, then certify each eligible track inside SyncRep.
8. Stay ready
Monitor your account email and keep licensing materials and ownership information organized.
Once eligible tracks are certified, they become available within MusicAtlas discovery workflows. They can surface when music supervisors and other buyers search by sound, similarity, lyrics, lyrical themes, creative context, and licensing criteria.
SyncRep is primarily built around real-time search and discovery rather than sending every track through mass email pitches. Certified tracks may surface through relevant searches, recommendations, playlists, partner tools, and other MusicAtlas workflows.
We generally recommend certifying every eligible track you control. Supervisors often search for highly specific sounds, lyrics, tempos, scenes, and emotional ideas, and the best match may not be the song you expected.
Search for the new track on the MusicAtlas map and use the Add Track button to connect it to your artist account. Then open Track Certifications and certify each eligible new track. If you are unable to add it or encounter an issue, contact MusicAtlas Support.
Music supervisors frequently search by lyrical phrase, subject, story, or theme. Accurate lyrics delivered through Musixmatch give your tracks more ways to surface in lyric-based MusicAtlas searches.
A PRO affiliation is not required to activate SyncRep discovery. However, artists should generally affiliate with the appropriate performing-rights organization in their region and properly register their compositions so eligible performance royalties can be collected.
These services are not required for SyncRep. They may, however, help eligible artists and rights owners collect categories of recording or publishing royalties that are separate from SyncRep and sync licensing income.
Editorial coverage cannot guarantee a placement and does not replace creative fit. It can help establish a more credible public presence and provide useful context when fans or industry professionals research an unfamiliar artist.
Sign in to your SyncRep account and open the Membership Perks section to find current artist tools, partner benefits, discounts, editorial opportunities, and additional resources.
No. Placements depend on creative fit, production needs, budgets, rights, timing, and buyer decisions. These steps improve discoverability, readiness, and royalty infrastructure, but no service or preparation step can guarantee a placement.
SyncRep starts working when your eligible tracks are certified. MusicAtlas can then make those tracks discoverable across real-time search and industry workflows without requiring you to repeatedly submit or pitch them.
The additional steps in this guide help strengthen what surrounds that discovery: accurate lyrics, properly registered rights, better royalty collection, a credible public presence, current contact information, and fast access to licensing materials.
Keep your catalog current, make your music as searchable as possible, and stay ready when the right creative need appears. MusicAtlas will continue working to help the right buyers find it.