Royalty splits let you automatically share the money a release earns with the people who contributed to it. You choose who gets what, and we pay each person their share whenever royalties come in. No more spreadsheets or no manual bank transfers!
You can split royalties with anyone. Band members, producers, writers, featured artists, managers. Your collaborators don't need a subscription. They just need a free Ditto Music account to accept, view and withdraw their share of the royalties.
Where do I find royalty splits?
Go to Your Releases on your Music dashboard, open a release from the Completed tab and click the Royalty Splits tab. Splits can only be added and saved once your release has been approved.
Your royalty splits dashboard shows every track on your release, who gets what, and how much of the release is already covered by splits.
How it works
Select Add Split and add a collaborator to a track with their name, email address and percentage share.
Click Save Splits.
We email your collaborator an invitation to accept their share.
Once they accept, their share of that track's royalties is paid into their Ditto Music account automatically.
Until they accept, all of that track's royalties stay with you.
How are royalties split between tracks and whole releases?
You set splits track by track (or copy splits from one track to all the others on a release to speed things up), and how a sale is shared depends on what was bought or streamed.
Streams and single-track downloads use that track's own percentages. If John has 20% of Track 1, John gets 20% of what Track 1 earns.
Whole-release downloads use each collaborator's average share across every track on the release, because the sale isn't tied to one track.
For example, say John has 20% of Track 1 and 30% of Track 2 on a two-track single. When someone buys the whole single, Sam's share of that sale is 25%, because (20% + 30%) ÷ 2 = 25%.
We work this out for you when your sales come in, so there's nothing to set up.
Only active splits count. A collaborator whose split is Pending or Verification required earns nothing until it's confirmed.