How Are Music Royalties Generated?
Basically if you have music anywhere on the internet, royalties have been generated regardless. Websites must legally acquire a license from you before they are allowed to use your music on their platforms. And for that license, royalties must be paid to you as the songwriter or rights holder.
Royalty Flow Chart
So what royalties could be I be missing?
* Check dropdowns for the type of music royalties and where they can be collected.
Distribution Royalties
We distribute your music on over 100+ streaming platforms including social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok as well as YouTube. Your music will be distributed with all the necessary codes and identifiers and live within 24 hours ready to monetize and generate royalties.
Get connected direct to your Artist profile page on most streaming platforms such as Spotify for Artist.
Performance Royalties
Performance Royalties can be generated from multiple sources such as radio airplays, online streaming, live performances, used at a business eg. retail stores, etc..
To ensure your a receiving these royalties, for the use of your music songwriters must affiliate with there local PRO. We can help musicians register and sign up with a PRO.
Mechanical Royalties
Your mechanical royalties are only collected by a publisher, if you aren't self administering your own copyrights. Note that your local publisher only claims royalties from the PRO they are affiliated with, which will include only the royalties generated within that designated country or territory the PRO/MRO controls.
To collect royalties generated internationally, you would need multiple sub-publishers one for every country. Find out more. However an administrator does the same duties as a publisher, but provides the role as a service instead of negotiating ownership terms to your copyrights and collects royalties for the entire world.
Neighbouring Royalties
Neighbouring rights royalties are payments earned by master rights owners (record labels) and recording artists when sound recordings are publicly broadcast or performed on platforms like terrestrial radio (outside the U.S.), satellite radio, TV, and in public spaces..
In the U.S., terrestrial AM/FM radio stations are not required to pay performance royalties to recording artists or record labels for broadcasting sound recordings, making it one of the only countries with this exemption.
Digital Lyrics Rights
Digital lyrics royalties are allocated to a songwriter for the public display of your music lyrics online. Publishers issue licenses to online platforms for the right to use your lyrics. Simply just adding your music lyrics to Spotify or YouTube when your song is played/streamed, automatically generate additional royalties paid in the form of a lyric license fee.
We work with Musixmatch and LyricFind to have your lyrics distributed to hundreds of paid sources from around the world.
YouTube Royalties (Micro-Sync)
Social Media (UGC)
Digital lyrics royalties are allocated to a songwriter for the public display of your music lyrics online. Publishers issue licenses to online platforms for the right to use your lyrics. Simply just adding your music lyrics to Spotify or YouTube when your song is played/streamed, automatically generate additional royalties paid in the form of a lyric license fee.
Digital lyrics royalties are allocated to a songwriter for the public display of your music lyrics online. Publishers issue licenses to online platforms for the right to use your lyrics. Simply just adding your music lyrics to Spotify or YouTube when your song is played/streamed, automatically generate additional royalties paid in the form of a lyric license fee.
We work with Musixmatch and LyricFind to have your lyrics distributed to hundreds of paid sources from around the world.
Digital lyrics royalties are allocated to a songwriter for the public display of your music lyrics online. Publishers issue licenses to online platforms for the right to use your lyrics.
