Royalties: How Owning Your Own Music Maximizes Your Earnings

In today’s music industry, owning your music isn’t just about pride — it’s about profit.

If you want to maximize your earnings, you must first secure your ownership rights. Without them, you could be leaving thousands — even millions — on the table over your career.

Let’s break down how music ownership works, why it’s the key to unlocking your full royalty potential, and how SongProof helps you protect your stake from day one.

Table of Contents:

1. Why Music Ownership Equals Money
2. The Three Main Types of Music Royalties
3. How Owning Your Music Increases Your Royalties
4. How SongProof Helps You Secure Ownership from Day One

Why Music Ownership Equals Money

Every time your song is played, streamed, sold, or licensed, someone gets paid royalties.

The big question is: Will it be you?

If you don’t have clear proof that you own your work, you risk losing all or part of those payments to:

• Disputes from co-writers or collaborators who claim ownership.
• Predatory contracts that force you to give up your rights.
• Unauthorized use of your music in commercials, films, or playlists.

When you own your music outright — and can prove it — you control how it’s used, licensed, and monetized.

The Three Main Types of Music Royalties

Understanding royalties is key to seeing why ownership matters:

Performance Royalties

• Paid when your music is performed publicly — live, radio, TV, or streaming.
• Collected by PROs like ASCAP, BMI, SOCAN, or PRS.

Mechanical Royalties

• Paid when your music is reproduced — CDs, vinyl, downloads, and streaming.
• Collected by agencies like The MLC in the U.S. or MCPS in the UK.

Synchronization (Sync) Royalties

• Paid when your music is used in visual media (films, TV, ads, games).
• Usually negotiated directly with publishers, supervisors, or agencies.

Without ownership, you can’t fully claim or control these revenue streams.

How Owning Your Music Increases Your Royalties

When you own your music:

• You keep 100% of your publishing share instead of splitting with false claimants.
• You negotiate better sync deals, often commanding higher fees.
• You secure long-term back-catalog revenue.

Ownership gives you leverage in every negotiation. Labels, publishers, and agencies can’t dictate terms without your consent — and they’ll often pay more knowing you control the rights.

.How SongProof Helps You Secure Ownership from Day One

Traditional copyright registration is important but slow. SongProof gives you:

• Instant, court-ready proof of ownership (timestamped on Bitcoin & Polygon).
• Secure vault storage for your original files.
• Immutable blockchain records that can’t be altered or deleted.

By registering with SongProof before release, you ensure no one can question your authorship when royalty checks arrive.

Your royalties are only as safe as your proof of ownership.

The earlier you secure your rights, the more you can earn — and keep — over your career.

With SongProof, you can protect your songs in minutes and make sure you, not someone else, collect the rewards of your work.

Protect your first song today with SongProof.