How is an ISRC constructed?
An ISRC is made up of four elements: • ISO Country, e.g. GB for the UK, or US for the USA, DE for Germany, etc • Registrant Code, a three alpha-numeric unique reference • Year of Reference, the last two digits of the current year, e.g. 03 for 2003 • Designation Code, a five digit unique number, e.g. 00013 The ISO Country Code and the Registrant Code are issued by the National Agencies or by the International ISRC Agency; the rest of the identifier is then allocated by the entity wishing to identify their sound or music video recordings.
