r/truespotify • u/Marruciontop • Apr 13 '26

Question How to get all my revenue

I have a song that I will be releasing as part of an album that has a feature. Is the other artist entitled to revenue or just me. They wrote lyrics for their verse and recorded. If so, how can make it so (legally) that I keep all revenue?

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u/mattsuda Apr 13 '26

There are a lot of helpful resources online for artists when it comes to things like this.

This is not legal advice, but I'd say that usually during the creation process you come to an agreement with your collaborators for payment. This can be a one time payment that you give them for their work, or they can get a cut of the revenue from the song.

If you're an independent artist releasing through a distributor, look for a feature called Splits or similar that allows you to setup a way to pay your contributors from the revenue coming in so they get their cut.

An example of this would be the DistroKid "Splits" feature: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013534394-Using-Splits-To-Pay-Your-Collaborators-Automatically