How to sign a song with a music publisher is answered by simply marketing your work, the real question is why you should sign a song to a music publishing company.
The most common way to get your song to an artist such as Tim McGraw or Martina McBride is to sign with a song publisher. Once signed, a good publisher will explore every possible avenue for your song to earn income. This frees your time to write more songs and has many other benefits.
The music publisher will pitch the song to major artists, try to secure additional remakes by other artists, seek out foreign artists to record the song, try to place it in a movie, ensure it’s represented on i-tunes, Amazon.com etc. Few songwriters have the connections a publisher has and all these things earn income for your songs.
Besides freeing up your time there is another big reason to hand off the non-creative end of your business. Most artists who accept “outside material” (songs not written by them or someone in their camp) look for songs only from song publishers, not directly from songwriters.
And if you need a third reason, guess what? There’s a super-compelling one! Once a song is recorded chances are it won’t be a hit on the first try. A publisher will keep working that song to find additional artists to record it, place it in a movie or on television, and promote it in other countries. This process would overwhelm the average songwriter leaving no time for songwriting.
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