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PR, Royalties, TikTok Strategy, NFTs, Multiple Project Names, Cover Songs (Ari Q&A Part 2)

The New Music Business with Ari Herstand

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Mechanical Work Royalties

Find session musicians just for performing, sharing a portion of the live performance. You can find talented people to help you create your record without sharing in royalties. i share about 20 % of the master royalties that comes from streaming to my distributor for all the session musicians on the record. This is something that's done frequently. Wolfpeck does this as well. They, i believe, do it equally. I give 20% to the players on the record, and i use a distributor that can pay that,. that can pay out that proper percentage to each person individually where i don't have to be cutting checks every month. So that deals with payment splitting. Some of the more popular ones are

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