For artists with songs sitting on streaming

Your music already has buyers.
Streaming just isn’t selling to them.

Filmmakers, YouTubers, businesses, podcasts, games — they need cleared music every single day, and they pay real money for it. Right now they can’t buy yours, because there’s no shelf your catalog sits on. The Exchange is that shelf. List your songs once, choose where they can earn, and get paid the second anyone licenses one.

What streaming pays$45for ~15,000 streams · arrives in 3 months, in pieces
VS
What one license pays$45for one YouTube video using your song · in your account in seconds

Same money. One took fifteen thousand people. The other took one buyer who needed your song.

The register

You set the terms. The register does the rest.

List a song with the switches you choose, a buyer licenses the exact use they need, and the sale splits to everyone on the song the same second — while the buyer walks away with a receipt anyone can verify.

You list · your rules
“Evening Rain”Kevin T · you own the master
Videos & podcasts$25
Businesses & venuespool
Film · TV · ads$2,000
AI trainingoff
The register
A filmmaker licenses
Film · TV · ads · worldwide
“Evening Rain” — sync
3-yr term · all media
pays at checkout$45.00
Pay & get receipt
Settles the same second
MJMara Jwriter · 42%$18.90
KTKevin Tperformer · 33%$14.85
GOGrace Oproducer · 15%$6.75
LFLight Fundthe gift · 10%$4.50
Buyer keeps a verifiable receipt
TLX-148D-2F44
How it works

Ten minutes. Any catalog. No tech skills.

Old songs, new songs, songs already on Spotify through any distributor — everything qualifies. You do not need to re-record, re-upload masters, or move your distribution.

1

Put your songs on the shelf

Upload or import your catalog. For each song, type who worked on it and their share — they get an email and tap Agree. That’s the same split sheet the industry scribbles on paper, done in one minute. Your song is now “clean-papered” — which is exactly what buyers pay for.

2

Flip the switches

You decide where each song can earn: videos, businesses, film & TV, samples, AI — each one a switch with your price floor. Off by default. Nothing happens to a song without your yes. Streaming keeps running exactly as it does today. Video, podcast, and sample licenses are perpetual for that use; film/TV/ad sync grants carry fixed terms (1–3 years, renewable) with territory and media scope, and AI is time-limited — the way each of those markets already works.

3

Get paid at the register

A buyer licenses your song → the money splits to everyone on the song, instantly — you, your producer, your co-writer. No statements, no 6-month royalty maze, no chasing anyone. A sale, settled like a sale.

Why this doesn’t already exist

Licensing one song: today vs. the register

A filmmaker wants your song. Here is every hand that request passes through today — and what the same moment looks like when the papers were cleared the day you listed.

Today — the clearance maze

Two rights, five doors, months of maybe

Typical sync clearance: 2 weeks – 6 months · royalties trail for 6–18 months

The buyer“I want this song in my film”First problem: every song is TWO copyrights — the recording (master) and the composition (publishing) — usually owned by different people.
find the owners… somehow
Master sideLabel / distributorQuote request → licensing dept → “we’ll get back to you.” Terms negotiated per use, per territory, per term.
Publishing sidePublisher(s) + PROThree co-writers can mean three publishers — EACH must approve. One “no” or one no-reply kills the whole use.
lawyers · email chains · re-quotes
The fee is paid — to the companiesMoney lands at the label and publishers, then enters the royalty apparatus: statements, recoupment math, collection societies, the black box.
6–18 months, in pieces
The artist’s share arrives… eventuallyAfter label percentages, publisher percentages, admin fees, and society deductions — an estimated $2–3B a year never finds its writer at all.
The usual ending: nobody licenses anythingThe filmmaker gave up in week two and used a stock track. Your song earned $0 — not because nobody wanted it, but because nobody could BUY it.
The Exchange — the register

Pre-cleared at listing, paid at checkout

License completed: minutes · everyone on the song paid: the same second

The artist — once, in advanceThe song goes on the shelf with clean papersEveryone on the song e-signs their split when it lists. Clearance stops being the buyer’s problem — it was solved before the song went up.
later, any buyer, any day
The buyerFinds it, clicks License — $45One click covers BOTH rights for the chosen use, because both were signed onto the listing. No quotes, no lawyers, no waiting on a third co-writer’s publisher.
the register fires — same second
The split, settled instantly
Mara J · writer · 42% $18.90
Kevin T · performer · 33% $14.85
Grace O · producer · 15% $6.75
Our fee comes off the sale — never out of anyone’s share. No statements, no black box, nothing to chase.
Buyer keeps TLX-148D-2F44 — a receipt anyone can verify, whitelisting the use with content-ID systems for its term.
and the song keeps working
Every future use is another checkoutStreaming still runs untouched — non-exclusive, masters yours. Found an unlicensed use? It becomes a one-click sale offer before it becomes a takedown.
Time to clear2 weeks – 6 monthsvsminutes
Hands between buyer & artist4–6 intermediariesvsthe register
Artist gets paid6–18 months latervsthe same second
Proof of the licensea PDF in an inboxvsa receipt anyone can verify
Your rights, your switches

Ownership never leaves your hands.

Non-exclusive, always. Listing here locks you out of nothing — keep your distributor, your PRO, your publishing deal, your Bandcamp. The Exchange is another place your songs earn, not a contract that owns them.

Every switch is reversible. Turn a use off tomorrow and it’s off. AI licensing is off until you say otherwise — and it stays off forever if that’s your answer.

Your masters are yours. Before, during, after. Same promise as our distribution, in writing.

Who’s buying

The people who need music, not just like it.

Every one of these buyers exists today and pays these prices today — to catalogs that mostly aren’t yours. Yet.

YouTubers & podcastersMusic for every upload, cleared so their channel is safe$20–100 per track / $10–30 mo
Businesses & venuesCafés, gyms, shops — hours of legal music per day, per location$25–35/mo each location
Film, TV & adsSync that clears in a day instead of three months of lawyers$500–$50,000 a placement
ProducersYour stems and loops as building blocks — credited and paid$5–50 a pack
Churches, schools, fitnessCharts, multitracks, use rights per site$30–50 per song per site
AI companiesLicensed, consented catalogs — only if your switch is onnew money · opt-in only
Clean papers sell books

Three shelves. You choose how high to climb.

Buyers pay for certainty. The cleaner your song’s papers, the higher it ranks, the more it earns. No shelf requires special software — the top one just pays best.

Shelf 1 · Declared

Splits signed

You typed the names, everyone tapped agree, you warranted it’s original. Takes ten minutes, works for any song ever made. Your catalog is live and licensable.

Every song starts here — old catalogs welcome
Shelf 2 · Verified

Checked by us

We scan for duplicates, cross-check your release history and credits. You do nothing — it happens automatically, and buyers see the checkmark.

Automatic for distributed catalogs
Shelf 3 · Certified Human

The premium badge

Drop in your project file and stems — from any DAW, Logic, Ableton, FL, anything — and your song carries proof a human made it. In a world drowning in AI tracks, sync buyers and brands pay a premium for exactly this.

Optional, and worth the most — never required
The honest comparison

On the shelf vs. off the shelf

YOUR CATALOG LISTED

Every song earns from seven revenue streams, not one
Money arrives the second a license sells — split to everyone automatically
Your back catalog — the songs streaming forgot — goes back to work
Splits documented once, no group-chat math ever again
You’re findable by sync buyers without a publisher or an agent
If AI money comes for music, it comes through your switch, at your price

STAYING STREAMING-ONLY

One revenue stream, paying $0.003, shrinking as 120k tracks/day pile in
Money arrives months late, in statements you decode yourself
Back catalog earns ≈ nothing after release week
A YouTuber who wanted to pay you licenses a stock track instead
Sync stays a lottery you need connections to enter
AI trains on scraped music and you see none of it

Straight answers

Do I have to leave my distributor?

No. Non-exclusive means non-exclusive. Keep DistroKid, keep CD Baby, keep anything. (Ours is $36/yr with 0% cuts if you ever want it — but the shelf doesn’t care.)

What does listing cost?

Nothing to list. We keep a small cut of each license sale (single digits) — we only make money when you do.

What about my PRO / publishing?

Keep them. Exchange licenses are direct deals for uses your PRO isn’t collecting on anyway. Your performance royalties keep flowing as before.

My songs are old / I lost the stems?

Fine. Shelf 1 needs only your word and your collaborators’ signatures. Stems only matter if you want the Certified badge.

Can a buyer do anything I didn’t allow?

No. Every license is scoped to the switch you turned on, at or above your floor, with a receipt both sides keep.

What if I turn something off later?

Existing licenses stand for their term (buyers need that certainty); no new ones sell. Off means off, from that second.

Do licenses expire?

Most don’t — video, podcast, and stems are perpetual for that use. Film, TV, and ad sync run on fixed terms (1–3 years) with renewals and territory/media scope, the way sync always has; AI training is time-limited and revocable. The term is stated on every receipt.

Go deeper

Your songs, back on the shelf.

Free to list · non-exclusive · your masters stay yours · paid at the register

List your catalog

The Exchange launches on Binelek accounts — create yours now and your catalog is first on the shelf. Buyer prices directional until launch.