How to collect 99% of your music royalties independently - 4 simple steps

May I ask, why after go to black box and then it go to Taylor Swift, Drake, or famous artist ?

Is there another way to collect neighour royaltes without pay the 100$ fee of songtrust?
thanks man!

Yo bro great vid but quick question y is it only 99 percent?

Thank you brotha!!!💯✊🏽💪🏽

Cdbaby is that indapendent?

another question..
i only have 176,000 plays on spotify but only a 3 songs that have over 20-30k streams.. is it even worth the time of registering my works right now? so far i have been collecting minor payments from my distributor. at what point do i need to make sure im signed up for BMI, song trust, and sound exchange?

will i actually collect from DJ spins in the club or at a party, etc?
from the way you explained it, i think BMI collects radio and Sound Exchange gets internet radio. but if i network with DJs how will i generally get paid?

When submitting your live performance set list (concerts/tours), Do you send that directly to BMI? Or go through songtrust? (Assuming you are signed up with both)

How do you find Royalties that you haven’t collected before they go to black box, ??? Because I only collected the publishing royalties.

Some dude from France hit me up about an album i dropped in 95

Who do i register with if its international

Is Sound exchange is still a reliable site?

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How about that extra 1% ?

Thanks man. But Promo code is not working.

bro thanks alot i did this and got a check for $8500.36

Great video. One of the best on a complicated topic. Why would there be uncollected money on the streaming side? Aren't the distributors supposed to take that back from the streaming platforms they work with?

This is the best video ever on royalties short,direct and very understandable

Can a producer claim sound exchange royalties? Because we don’t own the masters so I’m not sure if we can collect that

Thank you so much, Kato. But I'm little bit lost. Maybe you can help me figure out 🙄

I am now releasing 2 releases with a CD Baby PRO plan. But I'm confused and can't figure out what I should choose.

I know that CD Baby's PRO plan includes the services of Songtrust. But I plan to choose another distributor aftar that to release more music per year. But now they (CD Baby) ask me: "Please directly affiliate yourself as a songwriter with your local Performance Rights Organization" to complete the Current PRO Affiliation Status. I live in Ukraine. and they recomend me connected to local PRO: NGO-UACRR, but this guys take 20% commision which more than ASCAP take. But CD Baby tells me ASCAP is only if I'm in US. And for Ukraine I must to choose NGO-UACRR 😵‍💫

My main question is do I need to connect to PRO if I plan to sign up for Songtrust later. And if I'm not affiliate with any of PRO, do Songtrust automatically registered me with PRO or IMRO so that I don't pay twice (if I need join ASCAP, for example)? And do I able to tell CD Baby that I have affiliated with PRO after that?

It all sounds very difficult to me, as it is 🤭Help me please 🤯

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So much knowledge packed into three minutes.

straight to the point, thank you <3

3mins of everything u need to know

Wow! I thought I had registered for all my royalties until I saw this. Thanks for breaking it down.

I hope this doesn’t sound like a stupid question, but would I apply the same method to loops that I’m sending out from a beat maker point of view? Or does this only apply to songs when they are finalized?

How to approach this for people living in India! We live outside US

If im a producer and the artist registers the song I produced on tunecore, do I still need to register the song on my end?

But you have to get thousands and thousands and thousands of plays just to get a few bucks

Good Sh Main 💯👍

Great video. Gota say you would need to have PRO before going to Song trust! it doesn't replace it for you. Still, this is decent!

With That said, such Organizations are a bunch of well Organized legal Scavengers.

I apologize for such expression, but they have to have policies of contacting Artists, even if it's once, to let them know that their hard work has paid off.

Let me know if I'm wrong.

Can you manually distribute your songs and still collect everything?

so what about if your UK based, should you sign up with MCPS or still with Songtrust to get publisher royalties?

Can I use music reports instead of songtrust as it also collects mechanical royalties and it's free if I'm not mistaken

Thanks for the info. The Black Box was particularly good to know

Wait the money that doesn't get claimed just gets distributed to the top earners of the industry?!??? That is beyond savage... damn...

Man I know Im missing so much money globally!!! I got lots of streams and thru my distro something just never added up with my monthly payments... Lots of international streams. just signed up for songtrust and sound exchange. I'll be back in 9 months I hope I have a story to tell 😁

Excellent info. I've been mastering records and occasionally mixing for 20 years but I used to be a producer prior to that in the 90's where it was the wild west with no roadmap. I'm starting to tinker with production again and this info is really helpful.

Thank you so much. I've been looking for this. Straight to the point and very clear. I just want to know how to collect all (or at least almost all) possible royalties from my music. Cheers!

Thank you so much bro! This applies for other countries too? I mean I'm from Argentina, it doesn't matter? Thx 💪🏼🔥

all dis overwhelms me tbh

Littrally love it, no 30 min intro, no life story ❤️ just getting straight to the point, like a video should 🙏❤️

kato please can i register my beats after the artist has dropped them.they didnt buy the master.they only want to give me digital stream royalties but never mentioned publishing..can i do all you said after the artist has already dropped and promoting the song?

Great video

This video put me on , in such a different way that I can't even explain on how much this info is going to do for my career & many others out there,, just straight facts , & yeah new subscriber on board 👏 🙌 👌

All these facts in about 3 minutes: and you didn’t have to sign away your contact info, pay a fee for a producer’s special course, or download a .pdf, or click off a bunch of annoying pop ups.