Releases & royalty export

A release follows one project — a single, EP, or album — all the way from writing through mastering to released. Along the way you map out a rollout timeline with the moments that matter, and you record who wrote what so filing royalties later is a download instead of a research project.

Building a release

A release moves through a pipeline of stages — planning → writing → recording → mixing → mastering → delivered → released — so you always know where a project stands. Each release has a tracklist pulled straight from your Song catalog, so you set a song up once and reuse it everywhere it appears, including setlists.

Every release also carries a rollout timeline built from four milestones — announce, pre-save, release, and music-video — plus a checklist you can seed from a template. Set the milestone dates and they land on your unified Calendar alongside shows and tasks, so the whole campaign reads at a glance.

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 (the field validates the format as you type).
• Each writer, with their role: composer, lyricist, or composer & lyricist.
• Each writer's ownership split %.
• Their PRO affiliation (STIM, PRS, BMI, and so on).
• Their IPI/CAE number.

Splits for a work should total 100%. The editor flags it if they don't, and cover songs are handled separately so your originals stay clean. Filling these in while the song is fresh keeps your publishing paperwork in one place and makes the royalty export trustworthy.

Exporting royalties for your PRO

When it's time to report live performances to your performing rights organisation, ArtistHQ builds the report from your performed setlists. Go to Shows (sign-in required), open the More (⋮) menu, and choose Royalty export (PRS · STIM · BMI)…. Pick a date range and, if you like, a single tour, then export.

You get one CSV row per performance per writer — Date, Venue, City, Country, Work Title, ISWC, Duration, Writer, Role, Split %, PRO, IPI/CAE, and cover info — which is the shape most PROs expect. So a song with three writers played at two shows produces six rows. Works whose splits don't total 100% are surfaced before export so you can fix them first.

The royalty export is a Plus and Pro feature. (Plain CSV exports of your other data are free on every tier via Settings → Export — see Your data.) For plan details see Plans, billing & cancellation.

Related

• Prep a release rollout — the full playbook, from tracklist to PRO export.
• Read and settle a show — where performed setlists come from.

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