> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.musixmatch.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get a recording's administrators

> Up to 25 recordings by ISRC in, the publishers administering each one out.

An administrator is a commercial answer, not a CWR role code: the publishers on the recording's chosen works, deduplicated by IPI across those works. A recording we hold no publishing for answers with an empty `administrator_list`, never an error - a coverage gap is a finding, not a failure.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /enterprises/publishing/openapi.json post /ws/1.1/recording.musicalwork.publishers.search.post
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Musixmatch Publishing API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Read the publishing side of the Musixmatch catalog: given a recording, who
    administers and owns its musical works; given a musical work, which
    recordings exist of it; given a writer, which works are credited to them.


    Every method answers over HTTP 200. The outcome of the call is
    `message.header.status_code`, and a 4xx carries a prose `hint` beside a
    machine-readable `hint_code`.
servers:
  - url: https://api.musixmatch.com
security:
  - apiKey: []
paths:
  /ws/1.1/recording.musicalwork.publishers.search.post:
    post:
      tags:
        - Sound Recording
      summary: Get a recording's administrators
      description: >-
        Up to 25 recordings by ISRC in, the publishers administering each one
        out.


        An administrator is a commercial answer, not a CWR role code: the
        publishers on the recording's chosen works, deduplicated by IPI across
        those works. A recording we hold no publishing for answers with an empty
        `administrator_list`, never an error - a coverage gap is a finding, not
        a failure.
      operationId: recordingMusicalworkPublishersSearchPost
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordingList'
            example:
              recording_list:
                - isrc: USRC17607839
                - isrc: GB-ARL-10-01600
      responses:
        '200':
          description: One entry per submitted recording, in request order.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdministratorsEnvelope'
              example:
                message:
                  header:
                    status_code: 200
                    execute_time: 0.284
                  body:
                    - title: Rolling in the Deep
                      isrc: USRC17607839
                      artist_list:
                        - Adele
                      administrator_list:
                        - name: Universal Music Publishing Group
                          ipi: '00052210040'
                        - name: Warner Chappell Music Inc
                          ipi: null
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
components:
  schemas:
    RecordingList:
      type: object
      required:
        - recording_list
      properties:
        recording_list:
          type: array
          minItems: 1
          maxItems: 25
          description: >-
            The recordings to look up, 1 to 25. An ISRC is accepted hyphenated
            and in lower case. A row carries `isrc` and nothing else: any other
            property is a 400 on the whole request.
          items:
            type: object
            required:
              - isrc
            additionalProperties: false
            properties:
              isrc:
                type: string
                description: The recording's ISRC, e.g. `USRC17607839` or `GB-ARL-10-01600`
    AdministratorsEnvelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: object
          properties:
            header:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Header'
            body:
              type: array
              description: One entry per submitted recording, in request order.
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  title:
                    type:
                      - string
                      - 'null'
                  isrc:
                    type: string
                  artist_list:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: string
                  administrator_list:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Administrator'
    Header:
      type: object
      properties:
        status_code:
          type: integer
          description: The outcome of the call. The HTTP status is always 200.
        execute_time:
          type: number
          description: Server-side execution time in seconds
    Administrator:
      type: object
      description: >-
        A publisher entity we report as administering the recording's
        publishing, deduplicated by IPI across the recording's chosen works.
      properties:
        name:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        ipi:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: >-
            The party's IPI, 11 digits. `null` where none is on file or the one
            on file is a placeholder.
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: object
          properties:
            header:
              type: object
              properties:
                status_code:
                  type: integer
                execute_time:
                  type: number
                hint:
                  type: string
                  description: What is wrong with the request, in prose
                hint_code:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    A stable slug for the same fault. Part of the contract; the
                    prose is not.
                  enum:
                    - invalid_request
                    - unknown_property
                    - too_many_items
                    - invalid_isrc
                    - invalid_iswc
                    - invalid_ipi
                    - page_unreachable
            body:
              type: array
              items: {}
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: >-
        The request is not usable. Returned over HTTP 200 with `status_code` 400
        in the header, alongside `hint` and `hint_code`. Any fault fails the
        whole request: there is no per-row invalid state.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    Forbidden:
      description: >-
        The API key is not entitled to this method. Returned over HTTP 200 with
        `status_code` 403 in the header.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    ServerError:
      description: >-
        A read failed. Returned over HTTP 200 with `status_code` 500 in the
        header. A failed read is never an empty result.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      name: apikey
      in: query

````