Getting on Spotify is the easy part, and it only pays for the recording. The song itself earns separately, in four more places, and none of them find you on their own.
Enter your song once. Everything after that is generated from it — the checks, the files, the values you paste into each registry.
Title, artist, lyrics, dates. Two minutes. This is the only typing you do.
Who wrote what, and what percentage. A live meter tells you when it adds to 100.
Splits that don't total 100, a featured artist buried in the title, a missing IPI. These are what get submissions rejected. Each one has a Fix button.
Every destination in the order that works, with the real signup link, the exact steps, and a copy button for each field.
There is no single API that registers you everywhere. Anyone claiming otherwise is describing distribution only. Here's the real split.
Delivery to the streaming stores and YouTube Content ID. One upload, a couple of hundred destinations. This is the part that genuinely is one click.
The MLC and SoundExchange take bulk uploads but have no public write API. We generate the file correctly formatted; you upload it to your own account.
Your PRO membership and your copyright filing require your identity, your tax details, and your signature under penalty of perjury. We fill in every field and hand it over.
Half of performance royalties are the publisher's share. With no publishing deal, you are your own publisher — and signing up writer-only forfeits that half permanently.
There are two registrations, not one. Featured artist is 45%. Rights owner is 50%. Most artists only ever do the first.
An album can go in as a single group registration instead of paying per track. On a twelve-song record that difference is not small.
No account needed. Nothing is submitted anywhere without you.
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