Guide · Releases

Releases & royalty export

Last updated 13 June 2026

A release follows one project — a single, EP, or album — all the way from writing through mastering to released. Along the way you can map out a rollout timeline with the moments that matter: announce, pre-save, release, and music-video milestones.

Building a release

Each release has a tracklist pulled straight from your Song catalog, so you set up a song once and reuse it.

Songwriter splits

The royalty details live on each song's detail page, under Writers & splits. For every song you can record:

• An ISWC work code — the international identifier for the composition.
• A list of writers, each with their role (composer or lyricist).
• Each writer's ownership split %.
• Their PRO affiliation (STIM, PRS, BMI, and so on).
• Their IPI number.

Filling these in keeps your publishing paperwork in one place and makes the royalty export accurate.

Exporting royalties for your PRO

When it's time to report live performances to your performing rights organisation, ArtistHQ can build the report for you. Head to the Shows page, open the More (⋮) menu, and choose the royalty CSV export.

The export turns your performed setlists into a CSV ready for PRO reporting. You get one row per performance per writer, with the date, venue, work, ISWC, writer, split, and PRO. So a song with three writers played at two shows produces six rows.

The royalty CSV export is a Plus and Pro feature. See billing for plan details.

Stuck or spot something off in your export? Email us at hello@artisthq.app.