ACE Title Search

What is ACE?

ACE is a searchable database that contains information on compositions in the ASCAP repertory that have appeared in ASCAP's domestic performance surveys, including foreign compositions licensed by ASCAP for public performance in the United States, as well as most works registered with ASCAP since January 1991, whether surveyed or unsurveyed. ACE may also be used to determine whether a particular composer, songwriter or music publisher is a member of ASCAP.

Please note the following with respect to Writer information:

The ACE database contains the names of ASCAP writer members and the names of their co-writers who are either affiliated with other performing rights organizations, or not affiliated with any other organization.
ASCAP writer members' names may be accessed directly on ACE, appear initially in blue, and change to red when you click on the member's name; the names of writers affiliated with other U.S. performing rights organizations cannot be accessed directly using ACE.
When you click on the title of a song, the names of ASCAP writers, and writers affiliated with foreign performing rights organizations whose works are licensed through ASCAP for performances in the United States, appear in blue; the names of co-writers affiliated with other U.S. performing rights organizations, or not affiliated with any other organization, appear in black and only under the listings for their titles.
As noted above, the ACE database contains the titles of works written and published by members and affiliates of foreign performing rights organizations and licensed by ASCAP for performances in the United States under agreements between ASCAP and more than 90 foreign societies. The names of the writers of such titles also appear in blue and change to red when you click on the writer's name. The listing for the title may instruct you to contact ASCAP's Clearance section for additional publisher information if a publisher with an interest in the work that controls U.S. performing rights is also affiliated with a foreign society.
Occasionally, members resign from ASCAP and ASCAP continues to license performances of the resigned members' works — these resigned members' names also appear in black in ACE under the listings for titles of works that remain in the ASCAP repertory.

Please note the following with respect to Publisher Information:

ACE provides publisher information for ASCAP publishers when a work is co-published with a non-ASCAP entity.
ACE also provides direction to the affiliated society of the other entities.
The publisher contact addresses in the ACE database are intended for music users within the United States ONLY. Music users outside the U.S. should contact their local performance or mechanical rights organizations for publisher contact information applicable to them.
The publisher name and address that ACE provides as the result of a publisher address query or song title query is the contact publisher or administrator for a synchronization license, grand right, etc. This is not necessarily the copyright owner, who thus may not be represented on the ACE system.
THIS IS PUBLISHER INFORMATION, THUS SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR RECORD LABEL PURPOSES.

Notice of Limitations on Scope of ASCAP’s Authority to License New Media Services

An asterisk appearing at the end of a publisher’s contact information indicates that ASCAP may not have the authority to license “New Media Services” because the grant of licensing authority has been withdrawn by the controlling publisher. The withdrawal of these rights does not apply to current New Media Service licenses which have not yet terminated (“licenses-in-effect”). ASCAP will continue to license the public performing right in the interests in musical works that are owned or controlled by other ASCAP members who have not withdrawn their grant of rights for New Media Services. The definition of a "New Media Service" may be found in Section 1.12.9 of the Compendium of ASCAP Rules and Regulations, and Policies Supplemental to the Articles of Association.

In certain circumstances, ACE advises the viewer to contact ASCAP's Clearance staff 1-800-95ASCAP (1-800-952-7227) for additional information or assistance. This may occur if a work is not in the ASCAP repertory; if the publisher or administrator of a work is a publisher represented by a foreign performing rights organization; if the work is a collaborated work (that is, a work written by an ASCAP writer and a writer affiliated with another performing rights organization); if a publisher is a former ASCAP member; or if there is a dispute as to ownership or other rights pending with respect to the work.

Copyrighted arrangements of public domain works are listed on ACE.