ASCAP Royalties + BMI Royalties: MLC Royalties & DistroKid Royalties (Performance Rights)

Описание: If you’re searching ASCAP royalties, BMI royalties, MLC royalties, performance rights royalties, or DistroKid royalties, you’re already doing the right thing: you’re looking for the system behind the money. And in this episode of Insider Music Protocol, we build that system together—what I call the Administrative Shield: total asset registration, rights administration, and sovereign distribution.

The royalty truth artists deserve (clean + simple)

A song has two assets:

Sound recording (what people hear)

Composition (what you wrote)

Most confusion around royalties happens when those two assets get treated like one. They are not.

Where DistroKid royalties actually come from

DistroKid is a distributor: it gets your music into stores/streaming platforms and passes along the earnings those services report for streams/sales.
That’s a recording-side pipeline.

Where MLC royalties come from

The MLC (Mechanical Licensing Collective) exists to administer blanket mechanical licenses for eligible U.S. streaming/download services and collect/pay mechanical royalties to songwriters and publishers.
That’s composition-side money—different lane than your distributor.

Where ASCAP royalties + BMI royalties come from

ASCAP and BMI are PROs—they license public performances of musical compositions, collect fees, and distribute performance royalties to writers/publishers.
That’s why people call it performance rights royalties: radio, TV, venues, and other “public performance” uses flow through PRO infrastructure.


The Install: Your “Admin Shield” setup (do this once, benefit forever)

1) Lock your lanes

DistroKid = recording earnings pipeline

MLC = U.S. streaming/download mechanical royalties pipeline

ASCAP/BMI = performance royalties pipeline

2) Register the composition where it’s paid

Join/register with The MLC and register works accurately.

3) Choose ONE PRO for your writer share

Affiliate as a writer and make sure your works are registered properly so performances can be credited.

4) Make “boring admin” a culture
Turn this into a registration party mindset so your catalog doesn’t quietly leak money while you’re busy creating.


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