HFA's Song File
HFA, MENC, MTNA & MPA Welcome you to Songfile
The fast and easy way to obtain the right licenses for CD, cassette, LP and digital downloads of your students’ recordings. This means a school, studio, teacher, or booster organization can pay electronically by check or credit card to license recordings.
By using Songfile, you pre-pay for a set number of licenses so you do not have to report sales on an ongoing basis, and you can reorder more licenses as needed. You can obtain licenses for 25 to 2500 copies of each song. The royalty fee is set by law, 9.1˘ for songs five minutes or less or 1.75˘ per minute for songs longer than five minutes, rounded up. If you would like to see how much the royalties for your song would be, you can use our online royalty calculator. In addition to royalty fees, there is a per-song processing fee of $13 to $15 charged by HFA, depending upon how many songs are licensed at once. You can search for songs by title, and refine your search with writer or arranger information.
All Processing is done online.
and in most cases, you will have your license within 24 hours. Once processed, licenses are made available to you electronically for viewing and printing through your Songfile account. Please note that all Songfile license fees are non-refundable.