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Our royalty statements are getting a new look!
Our new clients: Rasster, Aiwaska, KINKY SOUND, Brosso, Zeskullz and more.
Starting this year, we have increased the entry threshold for working with Topgun Music
- the minimum number of plays must be 100,000 streams
- or, over the past year, your track has been played in rotation on the world's largest radio stations, such as the BBC, SiriusXM and others
- or you come on the recommendation of an existing client
Topgun Music client: ZESKULLZ
The Project is aimed at the Europe and USA markets. Many Zeskullz tracks have topped the charts across Global Radio.
We have had great news on our latest track "Submarine" by ZESKULLZ which was featured on USA Network's series "Queen of the South" in Ep. 11 - "Punto Sin Retorno". I'm so excited to be working alongside music maestro Giorgio Moroder.
Released their tracks on the biggest world's Record Labels: Universal Music, Dim Mak Records (USA), Mad Decent (USA), Armada Music (NL) and more.
Topgun Music client: Brosso
Resident of the labels: Bar 25, Ritual, Reload and etc
Topgun Music client: Rasster
Resident of the labels: Spinnin Records, Universal Music, Warner Music. Platinum Artist 💿 200.000.000 Streams on Spotify
Topgun Music client: Kinky Sound
Resident of the labels: Ritual, Bunny Tiger, Ritter Butzke Records and more
Topgun Music client: Aiwaska
Aiwaska is the project from the mysterious producer with more than 20 years musical background. He has a hypnotic and spiritual sound, with organic chop elements. A perfect blend of Melodic House rhythm, with atmospheric bass lines & hypnotic vocals. Aiwaska is the project from the mysterious producer with more than 20 years musical background. He has a hypnotic and spiritual sound, with organic chop elements. A perfect blend of Melodic House rhythm, with atmospheric bass lines & hypnotic vocals.
His production expertise has seen him deliver releases for such esteemed dance music imprints as Exploited, Crosstown Rebels, Bar 25 Music and House Music With Love. It’s also bought him to collaborate with a whole host of legendary vocalists, such as Robert Owens, Roland Clark, Egyptian Lover, and Aquarius Heaven. He’s been asked to deliver his unique style also to remixes for many dance music aficionados like Patrice Baumel, Eelke Kleijn, Jenia Tarsol & Kino Todo, Audiofly, Tensnake, Dj Assault and more. It’s this impressive back-catalogue that has seen him gather support from electronic music royalty like Solomun, Black Coffee, Damian Lazarus, Adam Port, &Me, Rampa, ARTBAT to name just a few.
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Glad to see this song in catalogue of own publishing company
We administrate part of publishing rights on this song!
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The Composition and the Recording
Every song is divided into the composition and the recording. The composition is the original idea of the song put in some tangible form. It could be a simple recording you make with your smartphone, or the lyrics and chords of the song written out on paper.
Once you’ve captured or recorded a song — whether on paper or in an audio file — you are considered its rightsholder by default. There are quite a few reasons to register your song with your home copyright office, however.
The other type of copyright every song has is the recording. It refers to a specific recording of a song for release. While there can only be one composition, a song can have multiple recordings (e.g., live versions, alternate takes, or covers of your song by other artists) and grant you multiple recording copyrights.
As the originator of a song, songwriters and their publishers generally hold performance and mechanical publishing rights, referred to collectively as “publishing” or “composition” royalties. Mechanical royalties are generated whenever your song is reproduced in any form, whether it’s a physical format like a CD or LP, a digital download, or an on-demand stream (e.g., Apple Music or Spotify).
Performance royalties are generated anytime your song is performed publicly, including live shows, radio broadcasts, and speakers at a restaurant or retail store. On-demand streaming earns performance and mechanical royalties, as it’s considered both a performance and a reproduction. Performance royalties are collected and paid out by your Performing Rights Organization (PRO) or Collective Management Organization (CMO).
Whoever controls the recording — whether it’s a recording artist self-releasing their work or a proper label — contracts a distributor to get the music into digital stores and services - as well as to collect recording side royalties for streaming and digital downloads. Artists and labels will also be paid for physical copies sold, whether it’s directly through their website, on tour at a merch table, or via a distributor who sells and ships physical copies to retailers.
Another oft-misunderstood royalty is owed to recording rights owners: digital performance royalties (similar to neighbouring rights outside of the U.S.). These royalties are paid to the recording owner and recording artist (not the publisher or songwriter), and are earned whenever it is played on a non-interactive streaming service like Pandora, or streaming or satellite radio. In the U.S., these royalties are collected by SoundExchange; outside of the U.S., many organizations collect and distribute neighbouring rights royalties.
Our royalty statements are getting a new look!
Our clients: The Organism, Roman Messer, FREE FLOW FLAVA, RELANIUM, Anton Kubikov, Indifferent Guy, Interplay Records, NOPASSPORT, Morttagua, Timeless Moment, Jasted, Rezone, Intricate Records, Wool Music, Katrin Souza and many more.
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Topgun Music client: Anton Kubikov
Anton Kubikov aka Juras Lietus. His music had over 90 releases on vinyl labels such as Kompakt, Force Tracks, Trapez, Salo, MAYAK, Pro-tez, Traum and Freizeitglauben with project Scsi-9 and under his name.
Topgun Music client: Relanium
Topgun Music client: The Organism
Topgun Music client: Free Flow Flava
Topgun Music client: Wool Music
Wool Music is a record music label includes artists: Hella Kidz, Starcardigan and more.
Our royalty statements are getting a new look!
From 2022 onwards we will be using Curve Royalty Systems to host statements on the cloud. In addition to extra detail, transparency, graphs and visualisations, you will now be provided with an online portal where you can access all of your statements.
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Topgun Music client: Jasted
Resident of the labels: Revealed Recordings, Mixmash Deep, Dharma Worldwide.
Releases supported by Martin Garrix, Don Diablo, Nicky Romero, Fedde Le Grand, Brooks, Mike Williams, Lucas & Steve, Blasterjaxx, Bougenvilla, Breathe Carolina, Swanky Tunes, Firebeatz, Maurice West, Plastik Funk, Jordi Rivera, Juicy M, Ummet Ozcan, Timmy Trumpet, Tigerlily and more.
What Is the Pay Rate for Spotify Streams?
Wondering how much you are paid each time your song is streamed on Spotify? Payouts to songwriters and other rightsholders depend on a number of different factors.
Every time someone listens to a song on Spotify, it generates royalties. According to this Hypebot piece, as of August 2020, Spotify was paying rightsholders a total of about $0.003 to $0.005 a stream - that’s about ⅓ to ½ a penny.
To be clear, this is the total paid to all rights holders on the song - that includes the master recording owners, whether a label or a self-released artist, as well as the songwriter and any publishers. Unlike most types of song usage, on-demand streams from services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, or Deezer earn both a performance royalty (paid to songwriters directly and paid to publishers) and a mechanical royalty (paid to publishers).
The exact rate Spotify pays per stream depends on multiple factors - such as country and user account type (e.g. Premium vs. Free), as well as agreements major labels may have directly with the service. And it’s not an exact science: because Spotify uses its overall subscription revenue pro-rated per stream per artist to inform streaming rates, they could vary over time.
To put this in perspective: Assuming a $15 minimum wage (or $31,200 annually), at a presumed average per-stream revenue of $0.003, an artist would need 10,400,000 streams per year to earn a minimum wage income. And this estimate doesn’t incorporate distribution fees, publishing administration fees, or the costs of marketing and promotion.
The rates the different streaming services pay do vary. Soundcharts has an overview that estimates per-stream rate by service and across multiple countries.
With streaming service subscriptions continuing to grow - having gone up 24% in the US in 2020 over 2019 - and streaming royalties counted in micropennies, it is more important than ever to make sure that you’re collecting all the royalties you’ve earned as an artist and a songwriter. Songtrust collects performance and mechanicals for you for streams generated all over the world, via our global network of over 60 pay sources.
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What Are Neighbouring Rights Royalties?
They’re not earned in the U.S. but are relevant to global artists.
Neighbouring rights are not part of music publishing; they are earned by a master recording’s owner(s) and featured performer(s) when a song is publicly broadcast or performed. The revenue from neighbouring rights royalties is generated by terrestrial (broadcast) internet (Pandora) and satellite (SirusXM) radio play, cable TV channels, businesses that use background music (e.g., restaurants, hotels, and stores), live clubs and concert venues, and various online media outlets.
In the U.S., broadcast radio stations do not earn a master-side royalty. However, master owners and performing artists are owed royalties for internet and satellite radio play, which is generally collected by an organization called SoundExchange.
The best way for you to start collecting these royalties is to affiliate and register your master recording with the neighbouring rights collection societies in every territory where your music is being listened to. Topgun Music collect neighbouring rights royalties too.
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What is Metadata?
It’s all about the details.
The term metadata sounds very technical, but it’s exactly what it sounds like: the informational details used in tracking and reporting for web pages, software, TV and radio broadcasting, studio recordings, and more.
Music-related metadata is information you chose to embed into files like WAVs and MP3s. Some common examples include a song’s artist, title, album, ISRC, copyright information, writer, engineer/producer, and publisher.
Engineers often embed metadata when they master your music. Labels and distributors may also embed metadata when they release your songs, in order to track sales and streams across various platforms around the world.
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Neighboring Rights is a term that relates to the royalties earned from the public performance of a sound recording. The performing artists on the recording a...
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What Is a Collective Management Organization? (CMO)
Their terms differ by territory.
A Collective Management Organization (CMO) is an international organization — GEMA in Germany, for instance — responsible for monitoring, licensing, and collecting performance and mechanical rights for their clients. They also enforce the conditions of each licensing contract, and collect and distribute any subsequent royalties.
In North America and elsewhere, Performing Rights Organizations (ASCAP, BMI) and mechanical societies (The MLC, The Harry Fox Agency, Music Reports) handle these licenses and collections separately for each type of right.
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What is an IPI Number?
Think of it as a social security number for songwriters & music publishers.
An IPI (or Interested Party Information) number is assigned to songwriters and publishers by their Performing Rights Organization (PRO) to uniquely identify them as international rights holders. It is usually between nine and 11 digits. If you are already affiliated with a PRO, you’ll need to share your IPI with Topgun Music so that we can properly manage your publishing.
Ask your PRO if you can’t find your IPI number.
Please note: IPIs are sometimes referred to as CAE numbers. This stands for the French phrase Compositeur, Auteur, and Editeur (Composer, Author, and Publisher).
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Mechanical royalties are a royalty paid to a songwriter whenever a copy of one of their songs is made. For instance, when a record label presses a CD of your...
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What is the Difference Between Songwriters and Performers?
Find out how it could affect your royalties.
When it comes to earning and collecting royalties, there is a clear division between how the music industry defines songwriters and performers. While a songwriter is responsible for a piece’s underlying composition — its lyrics and/or melodies — a performer is the artist who actually plays it live or on a recording.
Each party is entitled to separate royalty streams that are closely related to a song’s two unique copyrights. A performer can rack up royalties on the recording, and a songwriter can pad their pocket with the composition regardless of who the performer is.
Topgun Music is publisher administrator provides creative service.
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Music publisher is responsible for ensuring the songwriters and composers receive payment when their compositions are used commercially. Through an agreement...
Our royalty statements are getting a new look!
From 2022Q1 onwards we will be using Curve Royalty Systems to host statements on the cloud. In addition to extra detail, transparency, graphs and visualisations, you will now be provided with an online portal where you can access all of your statements.
Join Topgun Music: https://topgunmusic.art/
Topgun Music is a global music publishing administrator used by songwriters all over the world to collect the royalties that their songs earn.
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Why is Music Publishing Important?
It’s where many songwriters earn the most money.
The majority of an artist’s publishing royalties comes from their mechanical and public performance rights. Mechanical rights cover the reproduction of a song on a physical record or a digital stream. Public performance rights cover every time a song is played on radio and television stations, and in restaurants, clubs, and bars.
In a standard contract between a band and a label, the label is required — by law — to pay the composer a fixed rate per song. This is for the right to use the composition on commercially sold recordings, aka the statutory mechanical royalty rate.
The statutory mechanical royalty rate for the U.S. is currently 9.1 cents per song. The exact rate varies by territory, however.
Advances in digital music distribution have made independent music available to a much wider audience with many different types of payment models. This has created a significant increase in publishing revenues for many songwriters, and made publishing as important as it’s ever been.
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What is a Performing Rights Organization (PRO)?
They make sure you get paid when your song is used publicly.
Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) collect royalties on behalf of songwriters and music publishers when a song is publicly broadcasted or performed. Public performances can include plays on the radio and television, and in clubs, restaurants, concert venues, and other public spaces. PROs collect fees from these establishments and pay them out to their members.
Many territories have one or more PRO responsible for collecting performance royalties within that territory, from MACP in Malaysia to CASH in Hong Kong. When you join Topgun Music, we register your songs directly with PROs around the world and collect your royalties directly from the countries in which they were generated. This gets you paid quicker, and produces more detailed royalty statements.
Please note: PROs do NOT collect mechanical royalties generated from sales and/or streams.
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