How to Set Up Royalty Splits

What is a Royalty Split?

Royalty splits are an easy way to automatically pay multiple owners of a song. When a song has multiple owners, Sonomo can make things easy by automatically splitting monthly royalty payments according to how you've defined the specific song's Royalty Split.

A Royalty Split is a permanent record outlining who owns the song's original rights. In addition to the artist, typical members of the royalty split can be a label, a producer or a contributor of any sort.

Users placed on your Royalty Split will be able to:

• View the song's live streaming performance metrics
• View the song's Royalty Split
• Receive monthly payouts and details of the calculation

Who can create a Royalty Split?

Royalty Splits can only be defined by the owner of the account who initially distributed the song. This role cannot be transferred or re-assigned.

How can I create a Royalty Split?

1. Log in to your Sonomo Dashboard and select the album you wish to setup royalty splits for.
   
   
2. Once in the album view, you'll see a "Setup royalty split" prompt next to every song. If ownership of all songs in the album is identical, you can also setup splits for all songs at once.
   
   
   
3. The first place to start is your own ownership. If there are other owners, you can add them one by one, adding an email address and corresponding % owned for each owner. The total, including your own share, must add up to 100% of course. Give the details one last check before you submit to make sure there are no typos.
   
   
   

4. Any rights holders you add will receive an email notification about their ownership in a song, along with a link to set up their free Sonomo account to withdraw earnings.
   
   
   
   

5. The account owner who distributed the song can also view, edit, and delete existing royalty splits from your dashboard by selecting "View splits & rights Holders" from the menu ⋯ next to the desired song.
    

   1. View Rights Holders: Access a comprehensive list of rights holders associated with the track's split. 
      
      

   2. Check Split Percentages: View the percentage allocation for each rights holder. Other rights holders can only see their own percentage, with all other allocations grouped under "Other."
      
      

   3. Monitor Sign-Up Status: Review the sign-up status of rights holders and copy the invitation link to resend if needed. 
      
      

   4. Edit Split: Modify existing royalty splits for tracks that are not yet investable and have not received any royalty payouts.
      
      

   5. Delete Split: Remove existing royalty splits to allow for a fresh setup, provided you have the necessary permissions and the track wasn't made investable and hasn't received any royalty payouts yet.