DistroKid introduces new Recoupments feature on its royalty service Splits

 

By Emmanuel Legrand

Independent music distributor DistroKid has launched an expanded update of its automatic royalty distribution service, Splits, which allows artists who use DistroKid to automatically split any percentage of royalties, from any track, with anyone.

  New features include the ability to specify Recoupments for each track, designating collaborators who should receive payments first — before anyone else gets paid. "Artists will continue to be able to add or remove unlimited collaborators at any time, and change splits percentages at any time," said DistroKid, which claims that 300,000 collaborators have been added to Splits on more than 1.5 million songs. 

 
  “Artists love DistroKid’s Splits feature, and have been asking if we could add a tool that enables them to reimburse a collaborator who fronted money for a video or studio time, or provided some other service on an individual track,” said DistroKid Founder Philip Kaplan. “We’re excited to roll out Recoupments, which give artists even more control over how their earnings are distributed.”