How to choose your music distributor and collect ALL royalties
Lesson 1 from: DIY Music Business 101Tomas George
How to choose your music distributor and collect ALL royalties
Lesson 1 from: DIY Music Business 101Tomas George
Lesson Info
1. How to choose your music distributor and collect ALL royalties
Lessons
How to choose your music distributor and collect ALL royalties
04:57 2Introduction to this Section
01:15 3Copyright and Royalties Overview
02:33 4Royalties as the Songwriter
02:50 5Publishing Admin Companies
04:43 6Performing Rights Organizations
03:00 7A Brief Overview of Copyright
04:38 8Record Companies and Record Deals
02:37Spotify and Spotify Pre-Saves
02:34 10Preparing for a Release
03:53 11Spotify Continued
06:11 12Money
03:45 13The Importance of Video
03:26 14Demos
01:46 15Standing out
01:50 16Followers vs Fans
03:32 17Websites
03:48 18Recommended Resources
03:34 19Building and Monetizing Your Fan Club
07:12 20Pre-Save Spotify Toneden
02:40 21Fan Links Toneden
03:04 22Creating a Website with Square Space - A Brief Overview
04:30 23How to make a Lyric Video in Final Cut Pro X
09:36 24Finding Templates for a Lyric Video or Visualizer
04:46 25How to Find a Freelancer to Editing a Music Video Template
03:28 26How to set up Amazon Affiliate Links and where to put them
05:32 27Outsource and create logo with Freelancer Competitions
08:52 28Creating a Print on Demand t-shirt with Merch by Amazon
11:02 29Thanks and Bye
00:19Lesson Info
How to choose your music distributor and collect ALL royalties
Hi there in this video, I'm just gonna get you started, get you set up on the different companies or the different types of companies that are gonna be useful to you as an artist, as a songwriter. When you're putting out your music, I explain more on the different types of royalties later on. But this video will just get you set up and get you started. So the big two companies that I've come across and the most are CD Baby and Tune Cor. Now both of these companies will happily distribute your music. So you upload your music to them via their portal and then they push out the music to the music platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. But they all work in different ways and the ways that they work are subject to change. I'm just gonna give you a few things to consider when you are choosing the right one for you. Now, CD Baby and Tronco have been around for a while. There's also distro kid, but they all have different options. Now, the biggest piece of advice that I give to artists is ...
to make sure that they're not just collecting royalties on sales and streams, but they're also collecting royalties on the publishing side. OK, I explain more about the publishing side of things later on, but the easiest way to get set up is to use a distributor that also supports publishing. So CD baby support publishing as well. So if we go to CD baby's pricing structure here, let's have a look. So everything you see in this video is just what is true at the recording of this video, all of this stuff is subject to change. But at the moment, let's just have a look at the example. So the CD Baby standard package is like $10 for a single worldwide distribution CD distribution. You can sell your music on their store and you can monetize on youtube and they offer a sync, licensing product there as well. But what I'm talking about as well is this stuff here? OK. So performing rights organizations, song registration with global collection agencies and worldwide publishing royalty collection. So this is the stuff that a lot of people uh forget about or don't even know about. But it's really, really important because if you don't sign up for this stuff, you could be leaving a lot of money on the table in terms of royalties that you're entitled to as the person who writes your songs, not just the person who records or pushes them out. OK? So things like m royalties, things like performance royalties and many other royalties that you are entitled to, not just as the artist, but as the writer of your music. The alternative to doing this is to sign up with your pr O in your territory. For example, we have pr s in the UK in America. There is AC TB M I and global music rights amongst others, but generally speaking, just going through your distributor and doing it all under one roof and letting them do the work and collecting all of your publishing royalties is generally the easiest way to go and it allows you to just focus on being creative as opposed to all of the admin and the business side of things this way, you know, you're collecting all of your royalties, you can just work hard on making your music and building your brand. Ok? So this is just CD B's current version of this tuner also have this as well. So they have music publishing. So they have services that allow you to collect royalties. Be sure to think about youtube and Facebook royalties as well. That's really important, especially going into the future, make sure that you're collecting royalties when your music is used on those platforms. So there's a lot to think about. That's why it's just generally easier even if it is a little bit more expensive to just do it all under one roof. Now, if you've already distributed your music, but you need the publishing or you've used a distributor that doesn't support publishing, you can use publishing administration companies such as Songtrust. OK. So that's just more homework for you to do and to find the one that works for you. So one recommendation that I do make is you go to this article here on R ES take.com. If you just type in R ES take into Google and distribution, you'll get to this blog, great blogger about all things Diy music and Diy musicians, but specifically this blog that he keeps updated on a relatively regular basis and he just keeps a good up to date comparison of the different distribution companies that are out there. OK. So do your own research, have a look at this blog, have a look on the internet, you know what people use and why they use them, you have to decide for yourself what is the best one for you? Anyway, this video is just a quick starter guide on choosing a distributor and making sure that you collect royalties on both the artist side and the publishing side. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video.