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Performance royalties are earned when your composition is performed in public — played on radio, broadcast on TV, performed live at a venue, played as backgroun

Mechanical royalties are paid when your composition is reproduced — pressed onto vinyl or CD, downloaded, or streamed on an interactive service. The name comes

JioSaavn is one of India's biggest streaming platforms, and for Indian independent artists it is often the second-largest source of streams after YouTube. But h

YouTube is not one royalty stream — it is several. A single song can earn from YouTube Music streams, ad revenue on your own videos, Content ID claims on other

Apple Music pays more per stream than Spotify — but reaches fewer listeners. That trade-off defines the platform for independent artists. In a 2021 letter to ar

Spotify does not pay a fixed amount per stream. There is no official "Spotify rate" — instead, the platform uses a pro-rata (stream-share) model. Each month, Sp

Should you drop one song, a short project, or a full album? The wrong format at the wrong time can bury great music. Singles feed the algorithms. EPs prove your

No distributor is too big to fail, and none is too small to stop caring about your catalogue. If your distributor shuts down, stops paying, or freezes your acco

When a fan adds your song to their Instagram Story or TikTok video, that is free promotion to their entire audience. But you cannot upload a song to Instagram o

Every distributor charges you in one of three ways: a yearly fee, a commission on your earnings, or a one-time fee per release. Each model wins for a different