Music royalties and money, resources apps and services
Software for managing music assets, rights, licensing and royalties. Synchtank offers a range of cloud-based SaaS solutions for managing assets, rights, licensing and royalties. Whether you’re a music rights holder or music user, Synchtank software is tailored to fit your business.
Songtrust’s Royalty Estimator uses available data to estimate what streaming royalties your songs may have earned in the US and Canada only. Note that to use the royalty estimator, your song must be available on Spotify, though the estimates cover all US/Canada streaming sources.
Tracklib is a subscription service for cleared samples. It gives producers access to a catalogue of 100K+ original songs from every music genre and decade from all over the world. Tracklib handles all the hassle of clearing copyright, so producers can focus on making music. Rec read: The State Of Sampling 2022.
Label Engine is a music distribution, monetisation, accounting, and promotion platform for independent record labels and artists. It provides a suite of tools that help labels and artists get their music heard, earn more money, and stay organised. Label Engine’s tools cover every aspect of label management and are divided into four main categories: distribution, accounting, […]
Songtrust is a global publishing administrator that monitors your work globally, with direct relationships with 65 collection societies and pay sources covering 215 countries and territories. Songtrust handles registering your songs worldwide so you don’t leave any royalty earnings uncollected and have more time to focus on making music. You retain 100% ownership of your […]
TuneSat is an independent audio monitoring service. TuneSat’s unique audio recognition technology monitors hundreds of TV channels, helping rightsholders collect millions of dollars that otherwise would have been lost. TuneSat is for anyone who wants to track their music or audio content on TV and the Internet, for any reason.
Many artists sign record deals they don’t fully understand. CreateSafe has created a record deal simulator to help artists, managers, and labels model deal options and forecast profits. It is designed to show how the math works when an artist signs—the path to profitability for creator and company alike, based solely on streams. You probably […]
Eddy is a royalty accounting solution for independent labels and artists. Automate your artists’ statements and reporting with fast contract and repertoire import and powerful and transparent analytics. Ingest your label’s repertoire, configure your contracts, import sales reports from distributors, and access consolidated revenue and royalty statement reports.
TuneRegistry is a comprehensive music and rights metadata management platform designed for independent music creators and rights-holders. It offers a secure cloud-based catalogue where users can collect, organize, store, and manage metadata related to their songs, recordings, and releases. One of its key features is the Registrations Engine, which simplifies the process of registering titles […]
Royalty Exchange matches creators seeking funding with investors seeking catalogs. This gives creators the ability to raise money and fund their careers debt-free, and investors access to a new, high-yield asset class.
Audiam is a digital music royalty collection agency. They work for music publishers and self-published songwriters and license and collect U.S. streaming mechanical royalties, all Canadian digital mechanical royalties and YouTube royalties.
This free short course, “How to Get All the Royalties You Never Knew Existed” is designed for DIY musicians, including performers and songwriters, who want to ensure they are receiving proper payment for their music. It caters to those interested in understanding Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), digital distribution partners, and monetizing their music on platforms […]
LabelWorx is the world’s largest independent digital distribution partner for indie electronic music labels. Label Worx delivery network includes major DSPs alongside emerging platforms that cater for specialist sounds, so whatever your genre they make sure your music gets heard by the right audience. A full suite of label services including royalty accounting, label management, […]
Free 50 page PDF written by TuneCore founder Jeff Price. The document explains how it all works in the United States for Spotify and all other interactive streaming music services like it, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon Prime, Pandora Interactive and more. Outside of the United States, many of the same mechanisms apply, but there […]
Stem is a distribution and payment solution for artists and their teams. Offering music and video distribution, visualised data, monthly royalty payments, simplified revenue splits, and advances on future earnings, Stem brings clarity to the complicated process of digital rights management and monetisation online.
The International Standard Musical Work Code was implemented to set up a uniform identification system for tracking the use of compositions, which in turn helps rights holders get paid. This guide, from Exploration.io explains how this foundational identifier works with the music business, its history, and how to get these codes for a composition.
Reprtoir provides an all-in-one workspace for record labels and music publishers that offers solutions for catalogue management, music sharing, release building, royalty accounting, and more. It helps music businesses of all sizes in the day-to-day management of data, and more specifically in the organisation of music content, contributors, rights, and royalties. Users can also benefit from […]
While Spotify has never revealed an official number, the estimated amount of royalties per 1,000 streams is roughly $4. Use the Spotify calculator to figure out how much you can estimate you will get from your Spotify streams.
We Are The Hits (WATH) is an official cover song video network that allows video creators and songwriters to get paid for their cover videos legally. They offer a library of over three million songs, including 95% of today’s Top Hits, for creators to choose from. WATH was the first video network to enable creators […]
Deborah Mannis-Gardner is the go-to expert for global music rights clearances, whether for samples for recordings; or song usage in movies, television, and video games. When you need music clearance, you need it done fast, you need it done affordably, and you need it done right. DMG is known for clearing difficult copyrights from artists […]
Fast Forward is a next-generation royalty advance service from distributor Amuse. Fast Forward analyses streaming data to calculate and pay out advances as low as $50 USD up to hundreds of thousands. Get access to your royalties earlier than ever, without signing away your rights.
BMAT is a music technology company that focuses on indexing all music usage and ownership data to support artists in getting paid for their plays. They provide valuable services to various companies in the music industry, enhancing their data operations. BMAT delivers a significant volume of matches and identifications daily to global entities like CMOs, […]
The Independent Alliance for Artists Rights was founded to tackle worldwide issues affecting the collection of artists’ neighbouring rights (NR). The aim is to collaborate with CMOs and other interested parties to ensure the collection of these rights are as efficient and streamlined as they can be. Membership benefits include helping get NR problems fixed […]
An overview from Songtrust on Neighbouring Rights, the oft-misunderstood and commonly overlooked rights type, has become increasingly relevant for performers, producers, and record labels. By some estimates, the Neighbouring Rights sector has been the fastest growing in the industry with income for artists swelling to over $2B per year.
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