There are no upfront costs. We simply take a share of the revenue your music generates, never billed to you. All Fatstep labels use the same fees.
Distribution (streaming and downloads)
On every platform (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and so on), you keep 70% and Fatstep takes 30%. This is the same across all our labels.
Direct sales on Fatstep
For music sold directly on the Fatstep app, you keep between 70% and 90%, depending on what the customer chooses to pay. When fans pay more, you keep a bigger share.
Publishing and sync / licensing
We register and protect your works with SACEM and other collecting societies. Publishing is always handled under Fatstep, which is both our publishing company and one of our distribution labels.
When we place a track for sync or licensing, the deal has two sides: the master (the recording) and the publishing (the composition). We take:
- 25% on the master right
- 50% on the publishing right
These rates apply to every licence we grant directly. Rights collected by SACEM follow its own distribution rules.
Everything that is included
No subscription, no paid add-ons. Our fees cover all of the following.
Distribution
- Full distribution: streaming and download stores, plus Content ID, Shazam, Snapchat, Beatport, Meta and many more (full list)
- ISRC codes, provided
- Your back catalogue, if you want to bring it over
- Waterfall release strategies and pitching to platform editorial teams
- Several aliases on one account
- Co-artists, features and remixers, with each one's share paid out automatically
Protection and rights
- Your works registered with SACEM and your recordings with SCPP
- A network of sub-publishers collecting your rights in other countries
- Neighbouring rights, with no commission (learn more)
- Your catalogue on Songfindr, the app and its Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve plugins, where creators come looking for music
Links and audience
- A smart link for every release, working as a pre-add link before the date and as a listening link on release day
- A short artist link that gathers all your smart links (your artist page)
- On that artist link: email-gated downloads, YouTube videos and custom links
- Meta and TikTok pixels on all your links (ads and tracking)
- A free CSV export of your followers (your followers)
Stats
- Detailed stats on distribution, publishing and your links
- Insights: Spotify popularity score, the YouTubers using your tracks the most, trends in the videos that use them, and more
And one single point of contact for distribution, publishing, licensing and your links.
Your rights
- Your masters stay yours. The distribution contract gives us the right to sell them, not ownership.
- Distribution: the contract runs for 1 year and renews every year. You can end it with 2 months' notice before the end of the current year. Your ISRC codes stay with you, and we can move your tracks to the distributor of your choice without taking them down.
- Publishing: after 5 years, you can take back your rights on one or more tracks, with 6 months' notice. Earnings already generated stay shared as agreed, and licences already signed run until they end.
- Sync: every major licence is put to you before it is signed. As with publishing, you can end the mandate after 5 years, with 6 months' notice, and licences already signed run until they end.
How and when it is taken
Our share is deducted from earnings before they reach your Wallet, so the balance you see is already your share. Nothing is invoiced.