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How much publishing money are your songs owed?

Every stream of a song you wrote earns publishing royalties: mechanicals and performance royalties, separate from what your distributor pays you. Most independent songwriters never collect all of it. See a rough estimate in under a minute, for all your songs together or song by song with your share of each.

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How this estimate works

Streaming services don't publish stream counts per song, so the estimate starts from the streams you enter. We then apply industry averages:

  • Publishing royalties of about $0.0006–$0.0011 per stream worldwide (mechanical and performance, songwriter and publisher shares), multiplied by your share of the songwriting.
  • About 50% of that is mechanical; performance income is split 50/50 between writer and publisher.
  • Song by song, each song uses its own streams and your share of it, and the totals add the songs up. Producers earn publishing only on songs they helped write.
  • How much typically goes uncollected depends on your setup today. These are rules of thumb, not data about you.
  • Many societies hold unidentified royalties for about 3 years before paying them out to others, so older money may no longer be claimable.
  • Catalog value uses 6–10× yearly publishing income, a common range for small independent catalogs. Real offers depend on age, consistency and genre.

This is a rough guide, not a statement or a guarantee of payment. Real royalties depend on the countries, services and deals involved. Once you register, your dashboard shows only what's actually collected.