Founded in 2011, Texas.
An Independent Music Company
Watershed Music Group is an independent music company working across publishing, administration, and recorded music — through Watershed Music Publishing and Watershed Label Group. Music is a long business. Catalog is treated as an asset, and songs are given room to hold their value over time.
Featured Video
Yahweh (Holy) - Chris Burns & Danielle Burns
Watershed Music Publishing
Publishing & Administration
Watershed Music Publishing is the company's publisher. The work is creative: signing songwriters, developing catalog, and building relationships with the writers and repertoire owners whose songs become part of the publishing catalog over time. Ownership is treated as a long-term position, not a transaction. The work is operational: registering songs, tracking usage, collecting royalties, and managing the systems that keep the catalog accurately reported across territories and platforms. Administration is the infrastructure underneath a modern publishing business — and the modern music business demands precision.
Featured Songs
Top favorites and deep cuts from our writers and publishing catalog
Official Playlists
Discover fresh music every week on our official Spotify playlists
How We Work With You
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Managing your music assets and royalty collections can be complex, from navigating metadata to understanding how money flows.
We simplify the process by ensuring your song copyrights and sound recording neighboring rights are properly registered, licensed, tracked, and monetized across all territories.
Our expert administration team oversees every detail—maximizing worldwide revenue collection and delivering accurate payouts to all stakeholders—so you can stay focused on creating music.
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Our professional label infrastructure and advanced content management system streamline your entire digital supply chain, delivering your music and video to an industry-leading network of platforms.
With preferred partner status with all major DSPs, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube, we ensure your content reaches the widest audience possible with the highest technical standards and industry-leading licensing terms.
Our platform provides real-time analytics and supports even the most complex catalog setups, giving you complete control over catalog management, release planning, and global distribution.
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We combine proven industry experience with powerful data insights to guide our artists’ marketing—from best practices to customized strategies and targeted paid campaigns.
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We ensure that every track and asset we deliver is fully cleared for distribution, securing all necessary publishing licenses for both your owned copyrights and any third-party rights. This protects your music and guarantees that every release meets industry standards and legal requirements.
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The music business can be complex, unpredictable, and slow. That’s why we use industry-leading, cloud-based software to process massive amounts of data in minutes, giving you fast, accurate, and transparent insight into your earnings.
We provide quarterly statements and electronic payments to all rights holders—songwriters, producers, featured artists, and other participants—along with annual tax forms. Our streamlined process ensures you get paid promptly and clearly, so you can stay focused on making music.
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We partner with our clients to navigate every stage of their music career, combining deep industry experience with powerful technology and market intelligence.
We—and our trusted partners—provide actionable insights, data-driven guidance, and hands-on support—empowering you to make informed decisions and focus on what you do best: creating music.