Music Contacts and Songwriter Profiles
Use contacts to manage collaborators, clients, songwriter details, artist relationships, and sharing recipients in Songkeeper.
Contacts are the people and teams you work with: collaborators, clients, session musicians, engineers, managers, and anyone who may need credits, files, or follow-up. Use a contact for the person. Use an artist for the credited performer name.
Quick answer
A contact stores identity, communication, professional, social, and optional songwriter details. Contacts can be linked to artists, added to songwriter metadata, selected as contract parties, and used as sharing recipients.
What Contacts Store
| Area | Details |
|---|---|
| Identity | First name, last name, stage name, pronouns, notes, and tags. |
| Communication | Multiple email addresses and phone numbers, each with a type and primary flag, plus website and address fields. |
| Professional info | Company, job title, preferred contact method, and other context that helps you find the right person later. |
| Social handles | Handles for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and LinkedIn. Enter the handle, not the full URL. |
Songwriter Information
Mark a contact as a songwriter when that person should be available for songwriter metadata. The extra fields keep collection-society details with the contact record.
- PRO - Their performing rights organization, such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS, GEMA, SACEM, SIAE, JASRAC, or APRA.
- - Their collection-society identifier. Songkeeper validates the number format when you save it.
- Default role - Author, composer, or composer and author.
Where Contacts Connect
| Use contacts for | How it helps |
|---|---|
| Artist profiles | Link people to artist profiles, mark the primary contact, and record their role for that artist. |
| Song metadata | Reuse songwriter details when tracking writers, roles, and collection identifiers. |
| Sharing | Select contacts as recipients when sharing songs, files, projects, or playlists. |
| Contracts | Add contacts as contract parties with optional party roles. |
Creating and Maintaining Contacts
- Create quick contacts with a first name, optional last name, and optional primary email, then fill in the detail cards later.
- Use tags and company or job-title fields to keep large contact lists scannable.
- Keep the primary email current. Songkeeper can detect when a contact's verified email belongs to an existing Songkeeper user.
Deleting a Contact
Before deletion, Songkeeper shows the linked records it found, including activities, share links, songwriter profile details, and artist associations. Review that impact before confirming.
Related people docs
Artist profiles describe credited performer names. Contacts describe the people behind those profiles. For rights and identifier language, keep the glossary nearby.