Music Publishing

Unleash Your Musical Potential & Collect Additional Revenue Besides Sales

At Louis Capet XXVI, we provide comprehensive music publishing services that help artists, songwriters, and composers bring their creative visions to life. From copyright registration, music distribution, to royalty collection, we manage every aspect of your music publishing needs, ensuring that your work reaches its full potential and you get the recognition and compensation you deserve.

Our Services

Distribution

Ensure your music reaches listeners across the globe with our comprehensive distribution services. We partner with all major digital platforms and streaming services to make your music easily accessible to fans everywhere. From uploading and metadata management to reporting and analytics, we take care of the entire distribution process, allowing you to focus on your artistry.

Copyright Registration

Protect your music by registering your works with the appropriate copyright offices. We handle all the paperwork and legalities, making sure your rights are secured from the start.

Royalty Collection

Maximize your earnings with our efficient royalty collection services. We ensure you receive all the royalties you’re entitled to, from performance rights to mechanical royalties, and everything in between.

Licensing

We facilitate the licensing of your music for various uses, including film, television, advertising, and digital platforms. Our extensive network and industry expertise help place your music in the right opportunities.

Promotion and Marketing

Increase your music’s visibility with our targeted promotion and marketing strategies. We leverage both traditional and digital platforms to reach a wider audience and build your brand.

Sync Opportunities

Get your music featured in movies, TV shows, commercials, and video games. Our team connects you with sync opportunities that can significantly boost your exposure and income.

Intellectual Property Management

In the music industry, a music publisher or publishing company is responsible for ensuring the songwriters and composers receive payment when their compositions are used commercially. Through an agreement called a publishing contract, a songwriter or composer “assigns” the copyright of their composition to a publishing company. In return, the company licenses compositions, helps monitor where compositions are used, collects royalties and distributes them to the composers. We also secure commissions for music and promote existing compositions to recording artists, film and television.

The copyrights owned and administered by publishing companies are one of the most important forms of intellectual property in the music industry. (The other is the copyright on a master recording which is typically owned by a record company). Publishing companies play a central role in managing this vital asset.

Why Choose Us?

Experience

With over 30 years in the music industry, we have the knowledge and connections to propel your music career forward. Our team comprises experienced professionals who are passionate about music and dedicated to your success.

Personalized Service

We understand that every artist is unique. Our personalized approach ensures that your music gets the attention and care it deserves. We tailor our services to meet your specific needs and goals.

Transparency and Integrity

We pride ourselves on maintaining transparency and integrity in all our dealings. You’ll always know where your money is coming from and where it’s going. You’ll have access to detailed accounting reports available to you at any time upon request. Our detailed reports indicate the source & type, such as an Amazon download, a Spotify stream, or a YouTube play. We have segments that include the territory origination source, and additional revenues such as if advertising was shown at the same time. You will have a detailed description of every single source of income, in addition to a summary.

Global Reach

Our global network allows us to promote your music and manage your rights internationally. No matter where your music takes you, we’ve got you covered.

Success Stories / Case Studies

YaSsine DJS – Skyline – 54 Million Views on YouTube

Learn how YaSsine DJS achieved international success with our publishing services. Their song Skyline went viral a few years ago, and we have facilitated royalty collection and detailed individual sale-by-sale accounting for them for over 54 million YouTube views. We also initiated the collection of royalties from hundreds of additional resources that were not previously being collected on.

K3NX7 – Miss Grand International TV Music Licensing

We licensed our song “Phokasa” by K3NX7 to the Miss Grand International which is a Television show similar to the Miss America Pageant. Miss Grand International is an international beauty pageant franchise, and we facilitated the collection of royalites shared alongside with SAM SMITH – “My Oasis” and Derulo – “Lifestyle” feat. Adam Levine and David Guetta.

How Much Do I Get Paid from Streaming?

First, this isn’t an easy one to answer but rest assured that every stream deemed a successful one from the partner level is paid.

Every streaming provider pays differently, at different times, and with different rates. We have deals with all of the major streaming providers in the world and there isn’t one defined pay per play amount because the structure for each is different.

The same way you put your “trust” in us, we also have to put “trust” in our stores.

YouTube Payments

YouTube for example pays differently based on the time of the year and how much advertiser revenue is being paid into YouTube plus whatever interaction the user has with that ad while your content is playing so there is no defined pay rate that we can specify.

User Interaction means, did someone: Skip the ad? Click the ad? Watch the full ad?

As an example, YouTube has several different types of ads:

YouTube Streaming Payments

Streaming does not pay the same as downloads or sales. However, it is the future of music consumption.

If your song has been uploaded by another user, the pay changes to where that user page now keeps 13%, and we collect 87%. If that outsider YouTube page, uploads a mix or video with multiple songs, again the pay is less as the revenue is distributed by all the parties who have marked a audio-finger-print track on that users YouTube video shared with your song. YouTube has the same payment structure for everyone:

Payments from all other Streaming Platforms

Spotify, Apple Music, and others operate in different territories and that means that the subscription amount in these territories will be different than that of the USA or the UK. In some instances, it will be lower based on the market they are operating in, of which then that means that your pay per play may be lower.

To complicate matters further, some services have a free ad-based model and thus, those plays may pay lower than the premium subscribed plays.

In addition, if there are family plans, special promotions, or special relationships that these providers have with telecom, satellite, or tv providers, then that too means a different pay rate.

From a subscriber standpoint, if there is an increase in subscribers, that too will affect the pay amount per each and every play.

To conclude, we do not have a list readily available for each and every provider’s opportunity, territory, and/or relationship that results in X amount being paid each and every time. Some payments may be 0.00057 per song stream, and/or some may be higher or lower depending on the time of the day, year, partner, and deal that we have with them as well as other variables.

Do not expect to get a decent check unless you have several million real plays. This industry frequently has the largest number partners filing for bankruptcy restructuring, dissolving, and / or cease & desist orders. Such as:

Cover Song Licensing

Through our partnership, you can easily and cheaply obtain the mechanical licenses required in order to legally sell and distribute cover songs in any format (download, CD, vinyl, etc.).

Clear 100% of the rights for any song. 

Our Licensing follows the United States Compulsory Mechanical Licensing law, which makes it possible for you to license any song. With Louis XXVI you can obtain a License and legal permission to be able to release your song through us. Simple as that! No lawyers, No major expenses.

Remixes & Other Types of Song Licensing

We have several resources to release & collect royalties from the various different types of licenses, such as a remix or cover song of a song your produced of someone else’s music, or vice versa. Before we begin, keep in mind there are several different types of licenses we support, and acquire:

Remix Licensed – Most Requested here at Louis Capet XXVI

A Remix License or a Derivative Work License grants you the rights to alter the original song and create a new version. We have a blanket License Agreement with all the major Labels, this covers 95% of the songs ever made. This is typically for Covers (remixes), Tribute Bands, and people who make Karaoke CDs.

Song Sales + Streams are only allowed inside the USA.

Fee’s – Upon Acceptance Approval is Required

Streams – $0.01 cents per stream w/ 1,000 stream minimum paid up front year 1.
Sales – $0.08 cents per sale w/ 200 minimum paid up front year 1.
Admin Fee’s – @ $35
Total Cost – @ $65 for Year 1.

At the end of year #1, we turn in our accounting records, and pay the difference, then we’ll be given a license for year #2.

Keep in mind, if you’re going to remix a song, you’ll to want to remix a song from a very popular song like inside the billboard Top #5 artists during week #1 of their new release, and not necessarily a song several years old, because you want those fresh hits from the new release.

Additionally, having your remix included on the original artist store pages requires additional approval, and your approval is very unlikely, unless that artist uploads it for you. Though, you may show in search results.

Pro Video Distribution

Where will your video be shown with each partner?

VEVO

VEVO FAQ

Below we’ve consolidated a list of our most common questions concerning VEVO. If you have a question that isn’t answered here please feel free to contact us so that we can help you out!

What does VEVO do?

Vevo hosts music videos from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment syndicated on YouTube and its website, with Google and Vevo sharing advertising and similar benefits. Their site is available at www.vevo.com

VEVO vs. YouTube

Our video placements to VEVO are two platforms under one brand. With VEVO, your video will be put on VEVO.com and on a VEVO-branded artist YouTube channel. They say, “Your video will reach more viewers under VEVO than just using YouTube alone.” We think, Vevo moves them off your pages b/c the 1st thing they see is other suggested videos, but that is also how they bring people to you. The VEVO.com site, mobile app, and player itself is embedded to play on sites like Yahoo News. Having a VEVO-branded YouTube channel will add some verification that you are on the same level as mainstream artist.

Creating a VEVO channel

If you don’t have an existing VEVO channel, we create one for you.

For new VEVO Artist Channels, we will need:

Can I Control my VEVO YouTube Artist Channel?

Unfortunately, no. A VEVO branded YouTube channel is not like a regular YouTube channel in that it is managed by VEVO, and they do not give access to a third party. Therefore, artists will NOT receive a log in to their VEVO channel. We can make changes and updates to your video and channel info on your behalf as an approved VEVO partner. We can make changes to items like:

Becoming VEVO Verified

Becoming verified on VEVO is a more difficult process and something Louis Capet XXVI can NOT do for you. Per YouTube’s guidelines, your VEVO branded YouTube channel must have at least 100,000 subscribers to be able to request a verification badge. More info about this can be read on YouTube’s help center.

VEVO Royalties

VEVO is about 6 months behind our quarterly schedule of report postings. If we post quarter 2 sales that encompasses sales and streams from April – June then the sales for those periods may not be reported until the Q3 report. Not every partner reports monthly and/or at the same time thus, if you released a video in May, it may not show up in the Q2 posting that covers April, May, June. New sales will appear in your balance when they are reported.

Every streaming provider pays differently, and with different rates. We have deals with all of the major streaming providers in the world and there isn’t one defined pay per play amount because the structure for each is different. See above for Youtube Royalty Explanation.

We are not privy to the information on how much VEVO pays per stream or how they calculate their royalties. For example, VEVO could pay differently based on how much advertiser revenue is being paid into VEVO and whatever interaction the user has with that ad while your content is playing. So there is no defined pay rate that we can specify.

VEVO also needs to verify actual plays, meaning the video has to be watched for more than roughly 50% and the views needs to come from an actual user and not a bot hack that is being used to “juice” the VEVO views. This is heavily frowned upon and VEVO has removed content before when they have ascertained that views are fraudulent. As, we explained previously, YouTube also does the same, and will lock your view / play count at 300 if you try to manipulate the system.

To conclude, we do not have a list readily available for each and every provider’s opportunity, territory, and/or relationship that results in X amount being paid each and every time. But rest assured that every stream deemed a successful one from the partner level is paid.

Effective as of February 20, 2018, YouTube will not allow monetization on any channel, including VEVO branded channels, until such time as the channel has achieved a minimum of:

Music Choice Television Network

Music Choice (abbreviated as MC) is an American company which produces music programming and music-related content for digital cable television, mobile phone and cable modem users. Music Choice also programs audio music channels for digital cable subscribers, and produces music-related content for on-demand customers with access to Music Choice On-Demand. Music Choice also offers video and audio music programming for cell phones, available through the Music Choice app.

Many digital cable and telco networks carry Music Choice, including, but not limited to: Comcast, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS, Grande Communications, Suddenlink Communications, Service Electric Cable TV, and Frontier Communications. DirecTV also provides Music Choice programming. Other companies offer similar audio services for commercial customers, including Sirius XM, Muzak, DMX, and Stingray Music.

Requirements:

Pro Video Distribution Steps and Specifications

STEP 1 – Ensure your music is original and doesn’t have third party material

Before you begin doing any submission, it is important that you know that we can only accept original video content and thus, your video can’t contain third-party content that you do not own. Here are the basic requirements to distribute your video.

In terms of the content of your music video, there are some DON’Ts as well. Please read this important list of items to not include in your music video.

STEP 2 – Properly encode your video and audio with these specifications

Now that you’ve understood the idea of originality in terms of music video distribution, the next step is to properly encode your video and audio for distribution to our partners. This is one of the most important steps so please take a moment to read through all and, if all of the below is complicated or if you need any assistance terms of your own encoding efforts, feel free to contact us.

The higher the quality your submission, the higher the quality the encode will be delivered to iTunes and other partners. 

If your music video doesn’t meet all minimum specs, it will be delayed for delivery until the video is corrected. Please make sure your video meets guideline before moving forward.

TECHNICAL SPECS (AUDIO)

Format: AAC
Channels: Stereo
Sample Rate: 44.100 kHz for HD, 48 kHz for 4K
Bit Rate: 320 kbps CBR

TECHNICAL SPECS (VIDEO)

Compression Type: ProRes – Preferred for HD or H.264 – Also Acceptable
File Format: .mov (ProRes) or .mp4 (H.264)
Dimensions: 1920×1080 preferred for HD, and 3840 x 2160 or 4096 x 2160 preferred for 4K 
Frame Rate: Native (No less than 23.98 FPS)
Bit Rate: Unrestricted (at least 150 mb/s is Preferred for HD, If H.264 at least 50mb/s) and (at least 400 mb/s is Preferred for 4K, If H.264 at least 250mb/s)

The video must be de-interlaced and be set up for multi-pass encoding
NO frame re-ordering in your encoding settings
Do not include front or end slates, title or end cards, etc.

STEP 3 – Prep your delivery (Filename and Image Assets)

For VEVO and other partners, they do require some image assets and additional information in order to properly complete a profile for the artist that is featured on the music video. In addition, it is important that you also label your filename correctly to avoid delays.

File Labeling (Your file must be labeled as per below)

Artistname_VideoTitle_Version.mov
No spaces and/or special characters allowed (: ! # , @ $ % ? “ ‘)
Only English and Numbers Language alphabet
(No other languages with accent marks or unique characters to be listed for the file name wise ie. Russian, Asian, or Arabic letters)

PR Photo and Banner Submission

Your PR photo and banner image must be formatted as follows.

STEP 4 – Upload + Deliver your music video!

To deliver your music video you first need to use a program to deliver your music video to us. You can use: WeTransfer.com, Drop Box, or Google Drive. Once that is done, you are done! All you’ll need to do is contact us with the file sharing link.

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Working with other Record Labels?

Why do we offer NON-EXCLUSIVE Agreements? I know it may sound out of the ordinary, but we actually RECOMMEND it.

RULES:

Why do we say it’s OK to work with other labels?

We are NOT one of the Top 5 major labels, we are NOT a NASDAQ publicly traded corporation with millions of dollars accessible to spend on your advertising. We also do NOT have a staff of 10 interns on payroll, ready to take our daily commands.

When you sign with another label, they no longer are our competition, and they have just become our business partner. We feel that if we have a staff of 3 people marketing our label artists at Louis Capet XXVI, and you go to Record Label #2 with a staff of 3 people marketing you, and you also go to Record Label #3 with a staff of 3 people marketing you… you now have 9 people marketing you all once, just like the majors.

Keep in Mind:

Good Example – Genre Label

These have loyal fans returning every week & large subscriber email lists.

Bad Example – Bulk Label

This is a bulk label that accepts anything and has no returning fans.

Multi Record Label Theory

As, I’ve explained before in the Music Business books I have written for my producers at Louis Capet XXVI, some very large corporations have a very small staff. One of the largest radio stations in the City of Philadelphia, in the 4th Biggest Market in the USA, (b/c of the number of College Students) only has a staff of 19 people, and 12 are in sales.

Many successful ‘B’ artists are signed onto multiple labels, and this might be the reason they exist next to major artists. Whether they have good music or bad music; they have a good marketing team and that includes the artist also marketing them self.

So, if you are with labels #1, #2, and #3 we hope to all benefit together from your success as a team, and no longer as competition. That’s if they actually market you.

A bulk label does not do these things.

A genre label will, and they also have a large subscriber email list.

Together we hope to reap in your success, from our combined marketing activities, combined press contacts, combined social media marketing, and combined e-mail lists with labels #1, #2, and #3.

It is a similar theory as:

When competitors are next door to each other, they actually profit more because they get more walk-ins, compared to a jeweler in NYC next to food stores. I actually used to do something similar in our laser light show company. I used to call all my competitors just to say hello and email them to see how their business was doing. Some of my friends would say, “Why would you talk to your competitors?” Actually, over time… we all started working together, referring each other back & forth and we got busier.

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