Symphonic Artists Will Be Able to Opt-In to SourceAudio’s AI Music Dataset Licensing Marketplace
February 18, 2026 (Los Angeles, CA and Tampa, FL) – SourceAudio, the music industry’s most widely adopted sync platform and the market leader in large-scale, fully cleared music licensing for AI training, today announced a new agreement with Symphonic, a leading music technology and services company for independent labels, managers, and artists. Under the agreement, Symphonic artists and labels will be able to easily opt in and participate in SourceAudio’s AI music dataset licensing marketplace, allowing them to earn incremental revenue from their songs when they are used to train approved third-party AI models and tools.
Symphonic artists and labels who sign up for SourceAudio’s AI music dataset licensing marketplace will join more than 14 million other opted-in songs aggregated from SourceAudio’s network of over 3,000 music catalogs, including independent labels and premium-quality production music libraries. These tracks are then used to deliver diverse, high-quality datasets tailored to real-world commercial use cases.
The agreement reflects a broader shift underway in the music licensing ecosystem, as media companies, platforms, and technology developers increasingly consolidate their licensing relationships. Now, instead of relying on fragmented intermediaries, these businesses can pivot to fewer, more robust partners that embrace technology to deliver music, rights, metadata, and reporting at global scale. SourceAudio is uniquely positioned to meet these needs and more as a result of its comprehensive infrastructure across TV, radio, film, advertising, digital media, and now AI. This in turn will provide more opportunities to monetize music for Symphonic’s opted-in artists. Importantly, this model ensures that music used in AI training is fully licensed and compensated, providing an ethical alternative to unauthorized scraping or unlicensed usage.
SourceAudio has emerged as the category leader in AI music dataset licensing, closing eight contracts since Q3 2025 worth nearly $10 million in annual revenue. It is also holding more than $20 million in new annual recurring revenue in term sheets and contracts expected to close by Q2 2026. The company’s partners include a rapidly expanding group of music and non-music technology companies such as ElevenLabs, Music AI, Native Instruments, Serato, and many other widely adopted tools and platforms. Each of these deals generates durable, transparent, recurring income for opted-in artists, labels, and publishers.
Revenue from SourceAudio’s agreement with Symphonic is distributed to participating rightsholders in accordance with agreed-upon terms, with reporting designed to provide transparency into licensed usage.
“As we continue to grow revenue for thousands of rightsholders through our AI music dataset licensing marketplace, SourceAudio’s role has increasingly become the connective infrastructure between music creators and the next generation of media and AI platforms,” said Drew Silverstein, President, Head of AI Strategy at SourceAudio. “This new collaboration with Symphonic helps us both accomplish our goals, bringing amazing new music from cutting-edge international artists into our marketplace while allowing them to take part in fully cleared AI models and unlock their piece of millions of dollars in recurring annual revenue.”
“We’re always looking for new ways to bring in more revenue for our artists, and SourceAudio’s AI music dataset licensing marketplace checks all the boxes,” said Jorge Brea, CEO at Symphonic. “Not only will our artists make more money if they opt in, but they have full control over whether to do so, as we fully believe that no one’s art should be used without their express permission and fair compensation.”
Launching soon on the Symphonic platform, artists or record labels signed to Symphonic will see a Dataset Licensing Agreement available for review and opt-in, with full control over whether to proceed. Participation is entirely optional, and artists retain full ownership of their rights. No music will be included without explicit opt-in consent. From there, this will enable the distribution of approved music that is eligible and cleared for licensing deals as they arise, provided only to approved partners under contractual agreements. Artists and record labels will then be able to collect from a new revenue stream, just as they do with their existing revenue streams that Symphonic administers.
This program is entirely separate from Symphonic’s core Digital Distribution Agreement and will not impact an artist’s existing distribution unless they actively choose to participate. It is a voluntary add-on, ensuring the choice always remains theirs.
“AI licensing is a rapidly evolving space, and our priority is ensuring our artists have a choice, clear information, and fair compensation if they decide to participate,” said Brea. “We believe no one’s art should be used without their express permission.”
To learn more about SourceAudio, visit sourceaudio.com.
To learn more about Symphonic, visit symphonic.com.
About SourceAudio
SourceAudio is the music industry’s leading platform for fully cleared music licensing, operating at unmatched scale across sync, commercial media, brands, and AI. Serving more than 700,000 users and aggregating over 34 million fully cleared songs from thousands of rightsholders, SourceAudio connects licensors and licensees through a single, reliable pipeline for music discovery, curation, licensing, delivery, tracking, and payments. Increasingly relied upon as a single point of access for music and rights at scale, SourceAudio reduces fragmentation and complexity for partners while expanding large-scale licensing opportunities across TV, film, radio, advertising, digital media, and AI while unlocking durable, recurring revenue for artists, labels, and publishers. For more information, visit sourceaudio.com.
About Symphonic
Symphonic is a leading music technology and services company, offering a proprietary content management and distribution platform, global royalty collection and split payments, and robust label services to independent labels, managers, and artists. Founded in 2006 by music producer Jorge Brea, Symphonic is 100% independent and proud to be “by artists, for artists.”
Headquartered in Tampa, FL, Symphonic has a significant presence in key U.S. markets—including Nashville, Los Angeles, and Miami—as well as internationally in Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Europe, the UK, and Africa.
Symphonic’s current roster and alumni include Imogen Heap, Sublime, OK Go, Sixpence None the Richer, New Radicals, Jon Batiste, Tokischa, Doechii, Surf Mesa, DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill, Stick Figure, El Alfa, Juan Luis Guerra, Onyx, GRiZ, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Filter, Ani DiFranco, Sister Hazel, Melissa Etheridge, CloZee, Odesza, Eddy Herrera, The Midnight, LSDREAM, Sarah McLachlan, Reel Big Fish, and Matisyahu—among many others.