A transparent breakdown of digital streaming royalties. Learn the difference between master royalties and publishing royalties, how stream-share revenue pools are calculated, and how Harmonet delivers 100% of your earnings via UPI.
Every recorded song consists of two distinct intellectual property copyrights. Understanding who collects what is essential to ensuring you receive every rupee owed.
Represents the actual sound recording (the master audio track file). Digital distributors like Harmonet Music collect master royalties from streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, JioSaavn, etc.) and pay them directly to the artist or record label.
Represents the underlying musical work (melody, chords, and written lyrics). These include performance royalties and mechanical royalties generated when songs are streamed, broadcast, or performed live.
Streaming platforms do not pay a fixed fee per stream. Instead, they use a "pro-rata stream-share" model based on regional subscription pools and advertising revenue.
The DSP pools all subscription and advertising revenue collected in a given country during the billing month.
Your track's eligible streams in that country are divided by the total streams across the entire platform that month.
Harmonet Music receives the itemized statement and remits 100% of your earnings to your dashboard with zero commission cuts.
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