Music Royalties Explained - Collect Your Money

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In order to collect all your music royalties you'll need to sign up to a variety of royalty collection sites to get the music royalties you deserve. I wish music royalties were as easy as a 1-stop-shop but unfortunately not. However, after watching this video you'll be all set to go to collect all the money you deserve from your songs music royalties. Link us to your music in the comments for us to listen 🎵🎧

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[missingnumber]

First video I've found where someone actually breaks it down to the T. Much appreciated. New subscriber.

[Bigwoody]

Thanks man! Im 47 and releasing my first music via distrokid, ill do youtube separately as I heard that is better than letting distrokid handle it. So much info out there, so much to do.

[highsocietysongchannel]

Clear, concise, and informative. Thanks!

[petemikelic]

Thanks for this well presented useful and clear overview.

[GoTellJesusSaves]

It seems that a company who simply registers a person for all the different companies they need and gives them interactive info could really capitalize on this situation while helping people receive their royalties.

[PaulAdamssongs]

Please explain what Mechanical Royalty is. For example sale of physical product or DL

[CharlesCleyn]

Are you making music? Post links to your music in the comments so we can have a listen 🎵

[starhollywood]

I registered my first ever song 🎧 on ascap and I received the blue check mark ✔️!!!! From this point how will ascap know thats my song? In order to collect my royalties on my half ? I feel like I’m missing a piece to the puzzle 🧩 do they track it by the title of the song ?

[NigelTheBuddha]

Hi Charles. Thank you for your videos - very helpful. I'm a little confused about mechanical royalties though. According to Tunecore & another website I've just seen, a Rising Artist Tunecore Distribution account is enough to start collection mechanical royalties from streaming services such as Spotify etc. If I've understood it correctly, you mention in this video that I'd need (something like) Tunecore Publishing to collect mechanical royalties. Can I please ask you to clarify? I just want to get my (instrumental) music on the streaming services and get paid per stream. Thanks, Nigel

[MarcoLongoMusic]

I thought that non-interactive platforms like AM/FM radios were considered public performance royalties and that Soundexchange collected digital royalties.
I've been researching info on the music industry for the past two weeks and I feel like I'm more confused then when I started 😄

[elephantfeeet]

Hey, I'm sorry to call this out but I believe your information on Mechanical Royalties is incorrect. Unless my distributor is different than others, this was their reply:
In terms of the ways royalties work for streams/digital sales, there are two different kinds. 
-The royalty attributed to the sound recording. This is the royalty we are collecting and paying out to you.
-The royalty attributed to the songwriter/s (Mechanical royalty)Commonly called the publishing royalty and collected and paid out to songwriter's/publishers through a MRO (Mechanical Rights Organization).

Songtrust collects all publishing royalties and this includes both performance and mechanical.
These kind of false information makes it very difficult to understand the topic and believe what is correct and not for others.
I apologise in advance if I misunderstood anything but please don't repeat this mistake.

[Carla]

Thanks for this tutorial. I have a job interview for a music producer as a finacial controller and need to calculate royalties. Bytheway talking about South America, listen to 'Bizarrap Quevedo' an Argentinian producer who is first in Spotify global ranking this month..

[THEREALJUNEDAWG]

Hey brother what info what I need to give a another artist that I featured on his song so I can receive money from sales ? I’m with ASCAP

[momenthoomtv]

This was really helpful and very detailed, thank you… but please does anyone know a PRO in Nigeria???

[ghulamsakhi-vy]

I have a friend who sings old Hindi songs at weddings and concerts. The original artists are mostly dead and he some times he gets 1 million+ views on his videos, but he get no money for them because someone or some organization in India holds copyright to those songs and collects all his royalties. How is it possible? Looking forward to some answers.

Thanks

[JDotMauk]

do you have to split royalties when you upload to distro kid ect with the producer and if in agreement says split royalties with producer and bmi and Licensee do you half to file it through bmi or thats only if you hear it on radio tv ect and do i get 100% Royalties or do i still half to share regardless

[JosephineDeSmet]

My partner thinks there's work arounds for stores and dj's to lower the cost of certain music
- eg he thinks if a store plays a cover, the og artist doesn't have to be paid... I know the one with publishing rights still receives royalties but what's the benefit for coffeeshops of playing covers of commercial music?
- what about dj's? We saw a dj live who brought out a band and various artists, the artists also sang well known song, is this a work around for the dk to lower the cost for the performance? Idk I'm wondering how this works

[oscarmangini]

Ive had my music played on a few ad campaigns in the UK last year. Can i still get the money for these adverts or is that money gone now? If anyone knows how i go about this it'd be a massive help

[JosephineDeSmet]

It's so weird to me... Let's say I cover and perform an Ariana grande song. The Og writer gets the publishing right, but who has the master right?? Is that still Ariana or does that disappear when performing? And how about if I record that song with my own instruments and stuff, if that gets played... Who gets paid? Like why would it be cheaper to play a cover than the Og version
EG I will always love you. Doesn't withney have master right too for her own version??

[ayushkc]

How to create UMG ( on the behalf of Aftermath) like NepEmpire (on the behalf of someone)?