You are providing such an important service through these videos. Thank you.

Thank you! I love your videos. Short, sweet, and to the point, and they teach so much!

thank you for sharing. you made it very easy to understand

Thanks for all this valuable info. Looking forward to the next one

Great videos. Thank you for helping to demystify this very complex business for all of us trying to navigate the path of making money from our music. (And I dig the new frames, man. They look good.)

A great service and clearly described thankyou !

Excellent, thank you!

Great Stuff! Thanks for sharing

Great explanation as always but here's the big issue with going that route...let me preface by saying I LOVE CD Baby and have been with them since 2001...great company and great people. the problem is when you sign up with their Pro Publishing plan they essentially become your "Publisher" which negates you from signing with a Song Publisher but more so, negates you from signing with a Music Library in an Exclusive deal in order to get Sync placements. A single Sync placement could easily amount to much more than the Mechanical royalties from streaming.

ASCAP collects Radio, TV, Streaming and Background music and live music. You are wrong about they can only collect live performance

Two questions. Say an independent artist releases a C.D with 10 songs, 9 original songs that they own the sound recording and publishing rights to, and one cover song. 1. Where does the money to pay the mechanical royalties come from? Does the band have to pay it out of pocket, or does the manufacturer pay it? 2. What about the royalties generated by the other 9 songs? Can an artist collect royalties on something they themselves had manufactured?

Hey thanks for the video. I used CD Baby standard and I got pay abour $3 last month for my streams, what kind of royalties are these? Would I have gotten paid more if I signed up for the Pro option? Hope that makes sense, thanks again for the video.

Thank You Tony; Well Done: bookmarked for future reference once what makes sense this moment all slides out of my thick skull tomorrow

This advice in hiring a Pup Admin is good if people are covering you songs, and you're huge outside of the US. How many people watching this fit into this category? The return from the Pub Admin controlling your publishing is not worth it. Thank you Tony for your great insight to the industry, but people please do your homework before signing anything.

Hi! Great content! Aren't labels supposed to pay me directly if they used one of my compositions? Thanks in advance

is there any way to collect your mechanical royalties independently without going through something like Songtrust. If so how would I collect my money from popular streaming platforms such as Spotify, Pandora, etc.

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What about The MLC?

Looks Like Musicians and Producers has like 100 sources of Income!

What if you own the recording, hiring a singer? Is the singer listed as the "Artist?"

Sorry but isn't it the other way around ? Song recording = mechanical royalties. Composition = performance royalties. or am I missing something here ? Many thanks in advance

Please explain me the below state ment please please....... . . Controlled Compositions: If any selection or musical composition, or any portion thereof, recorded in the Masters hereunder is written or composed by Producer, in whole or in part, alone or in collaboration with others, or is owned or controlled, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by Producer or any person, firm, or corporation in which Producer has a direct or indirect interest, then such selection and/or musical composition shall be hereinafter referred to as a "Controlled Composition". Producer hereby agrees to issue or cause to be issued, as applicable, to Artist, or Artist's designees, mechanical licenses (including, without limitation, any "first use" mechanical licenses) and other licenses in respect of each Controlled Composition subject to the same terms and conditions as are applicable to selections and musical compositions written, composed, owned, or controlled, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by Artist, which are embodied on the Master or any recording recorded under this agreement. For that license, on the United States and Canada sales, Artist will pay mechanical royalties at one hundred percent (100%) of the minimum statutory rate, subject to no cap of that rate for albums and/or EPs. For license outside the United States and Canada, the mechanical royalty rate will be the rate prevailing on an industry-wide basis in the country concerned on the date that this agreement has been entered into. Producer hereby grants Artist a license to reproduce Controlled Compositions that are embodied on the Master produced hereunder in synchronization with and in time relation to visual images featuring Artist's performances in so-called promotional "video programs", on a royalty-free basis and in so-called commercial "video programs", in being understood that Producer shall be entitled to Producer's pro-rata share of any royalties attributable to such commercial "video programs". Upon Artist's request Producer shall execute or cause Producer's publishing designee to execute and deliver to Artist, as applicable, all documents required by Artist, as applicable, to effectuate the purpose of this paragraph.

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How can I collect my overseas royalties without a publishing admin. They want to take 20% of my BMI/MLC/Soundexchange royalties too !!! No NO NO !!!!

Wow are you ever gonna tell us how to collect royalties????