Royalties & payments

Understanding your dashboard

Your Earnings dashboard brings every stream, sale and view into one place. Here is how to read it. The headline stats - Total Revenue - all your income across sources for the selected period. - Total Streams - subscription streaming plays (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and so on). This excludes YouTube and ad-supported views. - Total Sales - downloads. - Video Views - ad-revenue and video plays, with the revenue they earned. - Avg Per Stream - average revenue per stream. - Countries - how many countries earned you revenue. Filters Narrow the view by date range, stores (main stores, downloads, meta) and region (Europe, North America, and so on). Tables and timeline Below the stats you get your top tracks, releases, stores, countries and videos, plus a timeline of revenue and quantity month by month. Your share If you collaborate on a song, the dashboard already shows your share of that song's revenue, not the full amount. A 50/50 track shows your half. Export Use Export to download your royalty line items or YouTube links as CSV. Related - Your wallet and how you get paid - Why your numbers change over time

Your wallet and how you get paid

Wallet shows what you have earned, what has been paid, and your current balance. Your balance is shown in EUR Because our accounting is finalized in euro, your balance and statements are shown in EUR throughout the wallet. Receiving your money in any currency We send payouts by Wise bank transfer, so you can be paid in almost any currency - euro or your local currency - with almost no conversion fee. Wise transfers at a near-market rate, so you keep more of your money wherever you live. Why "total earned" can differ from your EUR balance Distribution statements arrive in USD. Each month, when we close the accounting, we lock the EUR conversion at the real exchange rate that applied then. Because rates move, the running USD total and your locked EUR balance will not match exactly. This is normal. Automatic monthly payouts Each month we automatically pay every artist whose balance is over €100. In most cases you do not need to do anything. Request a payout yourself Prefer to be paid sooner? You can request a payout any time your balance is at least €5 (the minimum covers the transfer fees). See Requesting a payout. Revenue by source Your wallet breaks earnings into: - Streams - distribution statements (streaming, downloads, ad, video, radio, licensing). - Fatstep Sales - direct sales on Fatstep. - Licences - your direct Fatstep licences. - Payments received - what has already been paid to you. Related - Fees and revenue share - Requesting a payout - Understanding your dashboard

Requesting a payout

Even though payouts run automatically, you can ask to be paid whenever you like. How In Wallet, click Request payment and confirm. The rules - We pay automatically each month for any balance over €100, so you may not need to request at all. - You can request a payout any time your balance is at least €5. The minimum exists to cover the transfer fees. - When your balance is eligible, the wallet shows "Eligible to request a payout". After you request The wallet shows "Payout requested on {date}" and you will be paid in a few days. Payment is sent by Wise, so you can receive it in the currency you prefer, at almost no fee. There is nothing else to do. If a request fails or you see a network error, wait a moment and try again. If it keeps failing, contact us. Related - Your wallet and how you get paid - Why your numbers change over time

Why your numbers change over time

If your most recent weeks look light and then grow later, that is expected. Platforms report on a delay Stores and streaming services send us statements on their own schedule, and it is slow: royalty data typically arrives about 3 to 4 months after the plays happen, and for some platforms it can take up to around a year and a half. Your dashboard keeps itself current as each new statement lands, so recent periods fill in over time. "Latest full month" on Home The stats card on your Home page shows the most recent month with almost-complete data, precisely so you are looking at a reliable number rather than a half-reported one. What this means for you - Do not judge a new release by its first weeks in the dashboard. Give the data time to arrive. - Older months are stable. Recent periods are still catching up. - The footer shows when stats were last updated. Nothing is lost in the meantime. Every stream is counted once its statement is processed. Related - Understanding your dashboard - Your wallet and how you get paid

Fees and revenue share

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. Related - Your wallet and how you get paid - Distribution vs publishing

Neighbouring rights and the authorisation we ask for

When one of your recordings is played on radio, on television, in a public place or on a webradio, a payment is due. It is not streaming income and it is not publishing: it is attached to the recording, and it exists even if you did not write the song. It splits in two That payment is divided at source, and the two halves go to different places. - The producer share goes to whoever owns the recording. In almost every case that is you: your distribution contract leaves you the owner of your masters. - The performer share goes to whoever plays or sings on it, and is paid to that person directly. We only ask for the first one. What we do with the producer share If you authorise us, we register your recordings and collect that share for you: through SCPP in France, and through our collection partner Rights'Up in the rest of the world. You receive 100% of the net sums paid through to us. We take no commission on neighbouring rights. The societies' and Rights'Up's own collection costs are deducted upstream and are not ours to set. The performer share is yours to claim We cannot collect it for you, and nobody can register in your place. If you are the lead artist on your recordings, register directly with ADAMI. It is free, it is done online, and you will be asked for your identity, your bank details and the list of recordings you play or sing on. The sums are retroactive over several years, so registering late beats not registering at all. If you have musicians playing on your tracks, point them to SPEDIDAM: their share exists too and nobody will claim it for them. Answering the authorisation The first time you sign in after this was introduced, you are asked once, per artist. There are three answers and all three let you carry on: - I authorise this - we register that artist's recordings. - I decline - we do not. Nothing else changes: not your distribution, not what you are paid. - Later - we ask again in a couple of weeks. If you have several artist names, you answer for each one on the same screen, in one go. Changing your mind, and finding it again While an answer is still outstanding you will see a reminder at the top of the app and a dot next to Artist profile. You can open the question at any time from your neighbouring rights, or from the Neighbouring rights card on your artist profile. A decision is never final. Withdrawing takes effect once the societies concerned have recorded it, which can take up to sixty days. How much, and when Honestly: it is slow and it starts small. Societies distribute one to three years behind, and the amounts depend mostly on radio and public performance rather than on streaming. For music heard mainly online it stays modest for a long time. The value is that registrations are retroactive, so what is filed today goes after what was owed yesterday. Related - Your wallet and how you get paid - Distribution vs publishing - Fees and revenue share

Collect your performer share

Neighbouring-rights money splits in two at the source. The producer share goes to whoever owns the recording, and that is the one you can entrust to us. The performer share goes to whoever plays or sings on it, it is paid directly to that person, and nobody can register in your place. Not us either. This article is about going and getting it. It applies whether or not you have entrusted us with your producer share: the two halves are independent. If you live in France Register with ADAMI if you are the featured artist on your recordings. It is free, it is done online, and you will be asked for your identity, your bank details and the list of recordings you play or sing on. The musicians backing you come under SPEDIDAM. Their share exists too and nobody will claim it for them, so tell them about it. If you live elsewhere ADAMI is not the right door for everyone: it requires you to be a national or a resident of a European Union member state. A British, Swiss, Canadian or American artist cannot join. The rule is simple and holds everywhere: register with the performers' society of your own country. It is the one that then collects what you are owed elsewhere, France included, through the reciprocal agreements linking these societies to each other. You do not have to register country by country. Finding yours The authoritative directory is the one kept by SCAPR, the international federation of these societies: 58 organisations across 42 countries, with each one's name and contact details. - SCAPR directory: https://www.scapr.org/members-directory/ A few, as examples: PPL in the United Kingdom, GVL in Germany, SENA in the Netherlands, AIE in Spain, PlayRight in Belgium, SWISSPERFORM in Switzerland, SAMI in Sweden, GDA in Portugal, RAAP in Ireland. Who is eligible Neighbouring rights are not owed everywhere to everyone. In practice you need to be a national of a Rome Convention country, or the recording has to have been made in one. Most of Europe, Latin America, Asia and Oceania are in. The United States case This is the exception, and it is an unpleasant one. The United States recognises no broadcast right for terrestrial radio: a play on an American FM station generates nothing for the recording. A bill to change that, the American Music Fairness Act, has been reintroduced every session of Congress for years and still had not passed as of September 2026. Digital does pay. Webcasting and satellite radio do generate a payment, collected by SoundExchange, and we go and get it for you. So there is nothing for you to file there. Do not go and register your recordings there under your own name: two claims on the same track freeze the money until the conflict is settled, and nobody gets paid in the meantime. How much, and when Societies distribute one to three years behind, and the amounts depend mostly on radio and public performance rather than on streaming. Registrations are retroactive over several years: registering late is far better than not registering. Related - Neighbouring rights - Fees and revenue share

Analyse your numbers with your own AI assistant

You can connect your own AI assistant to your Fatstep data and ask it questions in plain language, like "which of my tracks grew the most this year?" or "where do the visitors of my links come from?". It answers with your real numbers, the same ones you see in the app. What your assistant can read - Earnings - totals, month by month, by track, release, platform, country and label, plus YouTube revenue by video and by channel. - Wallet - your balance, what you have earned and been paid, your payments and statement-by-statement conversion rates. - Sales and licences - your Fatstep sales and your Songfindr licences, line by line. - Catalogue - your tracks and releases with their ISRC and UPC codes, release dates and your share on each track. - Links - your artist page, release links and smart links: visits, clicks to the stores, countries, referrers, devices, and the videos on your artist page. - Pixels and milestones - which ad pixels are set on your links, and the play-count milestones your tracks reached. What it cannot do - It cannot change anything. Access is read-only: no release, link, setting or payment can be modified through it. - It only sees your artists. It never sees another artist's numbers, even a co-artist's. On a shared track you see your share, exactly as on your dashboard. Before you start You need an AI app that can connect to external tools (this is called MCP). Today that means Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor. One-click connection from claude.ai and ChatGPT on the web is coming soon. AI connections is available to every artist account holder. If an artist invited you as a read-only member, the tab is not shown to you: ask the account holder to create the connection. Step 1 - Create a token 1. Open Settings, then the AI connections tab. 2. Give the connection a name you will recognise later, for example "Claude on my laptop". 3. Choose how long it stays valid (30 days to 1 year), then click Create token. 4. Copy the token right away. It is shown only once. If you lose it, revoke it and create a new one. Step 2 - Connect your assistant Under Setup, pick your assistant. The setup line already contains your new token: click Copy, then: - Claude Code - paste the command in a terminal. - Claude Desktop - open Settings, Developer, Edit config, add the block to the file and restart Claude. Node.js must be installed on your computer. - Cursor - open Settings, MCP, Add server, and paste the block into mcp.json. Step 3 - Ask your questions A few ideas to start: - "Which tracks earned me the most this year, and on which platforms?" - "Compare my streams this quarter with the same quarter last year." - "Where do my link visitors come from, and how many click through to Spotify?" - "How much is left in my wallet, and can I request a payout?" - "List my releases with their UPC and the ISRC of each track." Reading the answers - Amounts are your share. On a collaboration, your percentage is already applied. Plays and streams are never split: two artists on one track both see all of its plays. - Euro amounts use the rate of the statement each line came from. The newest statement can be provisional until it is converted. - Royalties arrive with monthly statements, a few months after the plays happened. See why your numbers change over time. - On your links, a visit is someone opening the page, a click is someone choosing a store. Bots and our own traffic are excluded. If an answer looks wrong, check the same figure in the app: the assistant reads the same data, but it can misread a question. Privacy and security - What your assistant reads goes to the AI service you use, under its own terms. We never see your conversations. - A token is a key to your data. Do not share it or post it anywhere. If you think someone else has it, click Revoke in AI connections: it stops working within a minute. - Tokens expire on their own at the end of the period you chose. Your list shows when each one was last used. Related - Understanding your dashboard - Your wallet and how you get paid - How your links are performing