Publishing with Stanza
Your songs deserve to be sung.
Each year, countless shape note gospel songs go unsung because they aren’t widely published or are difficult to find in old and obscure songbooks. Stanza changes that.
We partner directly with you—whether you’re an author, the estate of an author, a publisher, a copyright holder, or a copyright administrator—to license and preserve gospel sheet music. Our digital library makes your songs easy to discover and provides a simple, legal way for singers around the world to use them.
Whether you’ve written a handful of songs or manage a catalog of thousands, we’d love to help bring them to a new generation of singers.
Existing Music
With Stanza you get:
- Ongoing royalty income from digital usage and licensed printing.
- Copyright protections through legal digital and print usage.
- Optional Professional typesetting and engraving services.
- Detailed quarterly usage reports showing how your songs are being used.
- Optional copyright administration with hassle-free royalty tracking.
- The opportunity to preserve your music for future generations.
Our goal is to help great gospel songs continue inspiring believers for decades to come.
New Music
Have you written new gospel songs you’d like to share with others? Stanza can help you publish your songs. We look for songs that are Biblically sound, singable, and that edify singers and listeners alike.
If your song passes review, it becomes available to thousands of singers through Stanza while you retain full ownership of your work and receive royalties when it’s used.
How Royalties are Calculated
Stanza pays 51% of net subscription revenue to publishers based on how much use their material has each quarter.
The view royalty calculation is as follows: Stanza’s net revenue × 51% × copyright holder's digital view % of total.
Digital View:
A Digital View is any instance a work is viewed for a minimum of 30 seconds in digital format such as on screens and projectors.
Stanza pays 51% of net subscription revenue to publishers based on how many views their work has in each quarter.
Physical Print:
Any instance when a user chooses to print the song. Users can print individual copies or as part of a collection, and the print rate remains the same.
Stanza pays a flat rate to copyright holders for each time a user chooses to print a copy of any of their songs.