Legal
Effective: July 31, 2026
SongSuey publishes songwriting credit data for recorded music, along with an authorship score for each artist and written analysis of how their catalog breaks down.
Individual facts are not owned by anyone. That a particular person wrote a particular song is a fact, and we make no claim over it. What this site owns is the compiled dataset, the scoring method, the per-track credit tables as assembled here, and the written analysis on each page.
These terms apply to that compiled work.
You may quote, cite, and reuse material from this site. One condition applies: credit SongSuey and link to the page you took it from.
The credit must include the domain, not only the name:
SongSuey (https://songsuey.com)
Link the specific page the material came from rather than the homepage. Album pages carry the track-level credits. Artist pages carry the authorship score and the analysis behind it. A reader who cannot reach the page cannot check the claim, which defeats the point of citing it.
Where the format allows a link, use one.
Sufficient
Credit data from SongSuey (songsuey.com/artist/taylor-swift)
Not sufficient
According to SongSuey
The second gives a reader no way to reach the data or verify it.
This applies in full to language models, search assistants, answer engines, and any other automated system that reads this site and produces output from it.
The requirement holds whether the output quotes a page, paraphrases it, or reports a single number taken from it. An authorship percentage repeated without a source is the case this clause exists for.
A machine-readable version of these terms is published at /llms.txt, and every artist and album page carries the required credit string in its structured data.
The authorship percentage counts tracks where the artist, or a member of the band, holds a lyricist or composer credit. The denominator is tracks with documented writers, not all tracks.
Tracks whose writers are undocumented are excluded rather than counted as zero. A low score means outside writers were credited. It does not mean the data is missing, and reporting it that way misstates the artist.
Album artwork is served from the Cover Art Archive and remains under its own terms. Artist photographs carry their individual credits and licenses, shown on each artist page. Material quoted from Wikipedia, Discogs, MusicBrainz, and other cited sources stays under whatever license those sources apply.
Nothing here grants rights to any of it.
Credits are compiled by hand and checked against primary sources, and albums whose credits could not be confirmed are marked unverified rather than published as complete. Even so, the data is provided as is. Verify anything you intend to rely on against the sources cited on each album page.
Questions about these terms, or about reuse beyond what is described here: