📋 How Royalty Splits Work
🎼 Song money (2.1 Song Payouts)
Paid for the song itself — the lyrics and melody.
- Songwriters & composers (writer share)
- Publishers (publisher share)
- Administrators (admin share — paid, not an owner)
Linked to ISWC
🎙️ Recording money (2.2 Recording Payouts)
Paid for the actual recording — the .WAV/.MP3 file.
- Artists, labels & master owners (entitlement)
- Producers (producer points — paid, not an owner)
Linked to ISRC
💡 Enter each person once. The Ownership Summary at the end of this section
is built automatically from the writer, publisher and entitlement shares, so who owns
the work and who gets paid can never disagree.
When your music is licensed for film, TV, or advertising (sync license),
how should the fee be split between recording money and song money?
Add everyone who is paid from the song — including yourself (you appear as (you) in the list).
Writer + publisher shares also become the Song Owners in the Ownership Summary;
admin shares are paid but are not ownership.
Add Composition Rights Participant
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Demo external payees are unverified and will lock live payout execution.
Define how this participant is connected to the composition
All percentage fields accept increments of 0.01. Use these to describe the participant’s composition-side interest.
Select whether this party is a writer, composer, lyricist, publisher, or administrator.
Add this participant to the composition ownership list.
📊 Composition Payees Total
0.00%
Add at least one composition payee to begin
📋 Composition Participant List — Songwriting & Publishing Details
No composition owners added yet
📊 Composition Payees Total
0.00%
Add at least one composition payee to begin
Combined writer + publisher + admin shares across all payout-eligible participants must total exactly 100%. This is the payout list for song money — these wallets get paid every period, forever. The Submit button stays locked until this reaches 100%.
Add Recording Entitlement Participant
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Demo external payees are unverified and will lock live payout execution.
All percentage fields accept increments of 0.01. Use these to define recording-side royalty participation.
Select the participant’s role on the sound recording.
Add this participant to the recording entitlements list.
🎙️ Recording Payees Total
0.00%
Add at least one recording payee to begin
📋 Recording Participant List — Recording & Performer Details
No recording entitlement participants added yet
🎙️ Recording Payees Total
0.00%
Add at least one recording payee to begin
Combined entitlement + producer points across all payout-eligible participants must total exactly 100%. This is the payout list for recording money — these wallets get paid every period, forever. The Submit button stays locked until this reaches 100%.
Add Commercial Participant
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Demo external payees are unverified and will lock live payout execution.
Percentage fields accept increments of 0.01. Use this to define commissions, ownership shares, fees, or recoupment interests.
Select the business participant category.
Choose whether this is commission, ownership, recoupment, or a fee.
The percentage rate applied to the selected revenue scope.
Choose which revenue streams this participant should affect.
Add this participant to the commercial and business participants list.
No commercial participants added yet
This section tells the royalty engine what kinds of revenue to expect and which payout paths should be used when usage reports are ingested.
Collection Source
Choose where income is expected to be collected from.
This matrix tells the royalty engine how to route money from each income source into ownership, participant, and waterfall logic.
💡 Recording money vs song money: for each type of income, the share that is recording money (2.2 Recording Payouts) and song money (2.1 Song Payouts). Each row must total 100%.
🔒 Some rows are fixed because the type of income decides the right: performance and mechanical royalties are always song money; neighbouring rights are always recording money. Money from a PRO/CMO, the MLC or SoundExchange is routed by who paid it, whatever is entered here.
✏️ "All-in" rows are for payments that cover both rights at once (for example a distributor or label reporting the song's total). Set them to match this song's agreements; the defaults are typical starting points, not rules.
🎼 Song Owners
0%
From writer + publisher shares in 2.1 (admin shares are not ownership).
Add people to 2.1 Song Payouts
🎙️ Recording Owners
0%
From entitlement % in 2.2 (producer points are not ownership).
Add people to 2.2 Recording Payouts
📋 Blockchain Submission Requirements
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❌ Logged in
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Active subscription (Current: none)
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❌ Blockchain verified
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❌ Your Solana wallet on file
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❌ Song Payouts (2.1) = 100%
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❌ Recording Payouts (2.2) = 100%
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✅ Sync split = 100%
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❌ All payees have Solana wallets
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✅ Live payout eligibility: no demo payees detected
