How does Elizabeth Music Group Publishing help producers who have produced songs with millions of streams?
Simple Answer
Elizabeth Music Group Publishing helps producers make sure they are properly registered, represented, and paid for the publishing rights they earned from the songs they helped create.
A producer can have a song with millions or even hundreds of millions of streams and still be missing publishing royalties if their ownership information isn't properly registered and represented globally.
Detailed Explanation
When a producer works on a song, there can be money generated from both the master recording and the underlying composition.
Elizabeth Music Group Publishing helps producers with:
Global song registration
Publishing royalty collection
Metadata and catalog management
International royalty collection
Identifying potentially unclaimed royalties
Publishing dispute resolution
Sync licensing opportunities
Transparent royalty tracking
Monthly royalty payments when Elizabeth Music Group receives royalties
EMG's goal is to make sure a producer's publishing rights are properly represented across the different systems where royalties can be generated.
Real-World Example
Imagine a producer creates a record that eventually reaches 50 million Spotify streams.
The producer may have already received a production fee. But those 50 million streams can also generate publishing royalties for the composition.
If the producer's publishing information isn't properly registered, some of that money may remain unclaimed or be difficult to identify.
Elizabeth Music Group Publishing can step in to help organize the producer's catalog, register the songs, track publishing income, and collect royalties from applicable sources.
This becomes even more important when a producer has worked on multiple successful songs across different artists, labels, and countries.
A Common Mistake Producers Make
One of the biggest mistakes is thinking:
"The song has millions of streams, so I must be getting everything I'm owed."
That's not necessarily true.
A producer can be paid a beat fee while still having publishing royalties that haven't been properly registered or collected.
Another common mistake is assuming the artist, record label, or distributor automatically handles the producer's publishing.
Publishing ownership needs to be properly documented and registered. Every producer is responsible for their own portion of publishing royalty collection.
What Producers Should Do
If you've produced a song with significant streams, you should:
Confirm your publishing percentage.
Make sure you have a signed split sheet or other documentation.
Confirm your PRO and IPI information.
Check whether international royalties are being collected.
Review older songs in your catalog for potentially unclaimed royalties.
Understand the difference between publishing royalties and master royalties.
Work with a publishing company that can actively manage your catalog.
The bigger your catalog becomes, the more important proper publishing representation becomes.
How Elizabeth Music Group Approaches It
Elizabeth Music Group Publishing was built to help creators collect the money generated by the music they create.
For producers with successful catalogs, Elizabeth Music Group Publishing provides the infrastructure to help manage publishing rights across multiple songs, artists, territories, and royalty sources.
Our team handles global registrations, catalog management, royalty collection, and publishing representation, while producers can use Elizabeth Music Group Publishing's royalty dashboard to see information about the royalties being collected.
Elizabeth Music Group Publishing also pays publishing royalties to its roster every month whenever royalties are received and processed, rather than holding them for a traditional quarterly distribution.
Elizabeth Music Group also believes a good publisher does more than just collect royalties, so they also provides access to sync licensing briefs, collaboration opportunities, beat pitching to major labels and artists, and other creative opportunities through its exclusive Discord community only available to the publishing roster.
The goal is simple: if you helped create a successful record, you should understand what you own, where your royalties are coming from, and have a system in place to collect the money you're owed.
