Sort the splits before the song comes out.
Splits are easy while everyone is in the room and impossible once there is money involved. Set them here, see whether they add up, and see what each person's share is actually worth.
Splits
Not sure of the rate? The streaming calculator shows you how to get your real one off a distributor statement.
Do this before the song is out, not after
A split nobody wrote down is a split everybody remembers differently. While the song is unreleased it costs one message to agree; once there is money on it, the same conversation costs a friendship, and sometimes a lawyer.
Write it down, get everyone to confirm it in a message or an email, and keep that somewhere you can find it. A screenshot of an agreement is worth more than a perfect memory of one.
Where the beat sits in this
On Full Monetization — buy 1 beat, get 9 free. $129.95 — you keep 100% of what the recording earns, with no cap. The single-beat leases take no cut either, up to their limits; see licensing.
Songwriting is different. On every BE-TWIIN licence the producer holds 50% of the writer's share and 50% of the publisher's share, so BE-TWIIN is a line on your publishing split sheet. The other 50% of the writer's share is yours to split with co-writers and features — that is what this calculator is for.
This is a calculator, not a contract
It adds percentages and multiplies them by a number you typed. It is not legal advice and it does not register anything anywhere — publishing splits are filed with your publisher or PRO, and master splits with your distributor. Use this to agree the numbers, then put them where they count.