Most artists assume that once a track is delivered to Spotify or Apple Music, getting paid is automatic. It isn't. Royalties route through a chain of ISRC codes, songwriter and publisher credits, and separate mechanical and performance rights systems, and if any one link in that chain is wrong, the money doesn't disappear, it just sits unclaimed. The US Mechanical Licensing Collective alone is currently holding over $424 million in exactly that kind of unmatched royalty.
StreamWays was built around a simple idea: a distributor's real job isn't just getting music onto platforms, it's making sure every dollar that music earns actually finds its way to the people who made it. That means reviewing metadata before delivery, not after something breaks, and building payee splits into the release process from day one instead of treating them as an afterthought.
Every release gets reviewed before it ships. It's slower than a fully automated pipeline, and that's the point.
StreamWays is a distribution and administration service, never a label. Your copyright never transfers to us.
We take 15% of your royalties, and only after a platform pays you. There's no upfront cost, so if a release doesn't take off, you don't owe us anything.
Genre and trend insights aren't a gimmick, they're meant to help you decide when and where to release.
In a catalog of over 250 million tracks, getting distribution right the first time is what stands between your music earning what it's owed and quietly joining an industry-wide pile of unmatched royalties. That's the gap StreamWays was built to close.
Walk through exactly how StreamWays checks and delivers every release.
See the Pipeline