# Music NFT Standards Considerations **The main considerations for new Music NFT standard which should be applied:**\ These points were scooped from MintSongs & Catalog Working Group. * Backwards compatibility for frozen metadata, once the metadata gets frozen ie uploaded on chain we should be able to work with them afterwards * More optionality and powerful royalties that don’t lean too heavily on the intricacies of the Web2 space without complying past standards, this has to be new but usable * Token as primary metadata authority for aggregators, data integrity and control the rights of artists and labels, allowing these roles to function as composable permission-less structures * Expanding scope of [ERC-1155](https://www.nftstandards.wtf/Standards/ERC1155+Multi+token) — use Music Token Standard instead of Music NFT * Type of data has to be future proof, if we are going to create a standard we have to make sure it will be useable in the future too, metadata should have 3 types of metadata: descriptive, ownership & performing rights, recommendation data — tags * Metadata should also cover 3 levels of the product — album release, recording data, composition data about rights grated with the sale * Existence of album tokens with interoperability with song tokens * Reference name of metadata standard as version number Source: Reference to:\ --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://nft-standards.gitbook.io/nft-standards-wiki/music-nfts/music-nft-standards-considerations.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.