Royalties & payments
By Simon
By Simon
Your dashboard, wallet, fees, and how and when you get paid.
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 small 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 On a typical sync or licence, that comes to about 37.5% for us, so you keep roughly 62.5%. What your distribution share covers Your 70% is not just delivery. For distribution we also handle: - Bringing in your back catalogue - Waterfall release strategies - Pitching to platform editorial teams - Pre-add links that become smart fan links on release day 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