Every right. Every split.
Accounted for.
Ownership, deal terms, and royalty splits are where distribution stops being simple. ToneGrid gives you one rights ledger for master and publishing, models the real deal down to the last contributor, and pays every party accurately across 220+ DSPs. No spreadsheets, no reconciliation guesswork.
Rights intelligence, built into the infrastructure
Unlimited
Split-tree depth
220+
DSPs collected from
Master + Pub
Both rights sides tracked
100%
Audit-trailed changes
The hard part of distribution, handled
Delivery is solved. What breaks distribution businesses is everything that happens to the money after it comes back: tangled splits, opaque statements, and manual payouts that never quite reconcile.
Digital deal terms
Encode advances, recoupment, term length, territory, and escalators once. Every release inherits the deal, and the engine enforces it on every payout cycle automatically.
Transparent statements
Branded, line-item statements per artist and per period, traceable from a single stream all the way up to the platform. Nobody has to take your number on faith.
Automated payouts
Once the split tree is reconciled, payouts run themselves across wire, PayPal, Payoneer, Paystack, Flutterwave, and more, in the currency each party expects.
One source of truth for who owns what
Rights live in one ledger, not scattered across contracts, inboxes, and spreadsheets. Every capability below reads from and writes to the same record.
Ownership & Splits
Define who holds what share of a release, then nest it: platform to sub-label to artist to producer to writer. Percentages, fixed fees, and per-territory variations all live on the same record.
Master Rights
Track the recording side end to end: rights holders, ISRC, label, and the deal that governs it. The master record drives delivery and every cent of recording revenue collected from DSPs.
Publishing & Composition
Keep the composition side separate and complete: writers, publishers, ISWC, and writer or publisher share splits, so the people behind the song are accounted for, not just the recording.
Neighbouring Rights
Capture performer and master-side performance entitlements alongside the recording, so the rights that pay out beyond streaming are documented from day one rather than reconstructed later.
Conflict Detection
Splits that do not total 100%, overlapping ownership claims, duplicate ISRCs, and territory or sub-publishing clashes are flagged at ingestion, before a release ships or a payout goes wrong.
Identifiers & Registration
ISRCs are assigned automatically after QC approval (never at upload), UPCs are generated for every release, and rights data exchanges cleanly over DDEX ERN 4.3 with your partners.
Splits that mirror the real deal
Real deals are not flat. A label takes its share, the artist takes theirs, a producer sits on points, a songwriter is owed a slice, and an advance is still recouping in the background. ToneGrid models all of it as one tree.
When each cycle's DSP revenue is reconciled, the engine walks the tree, applies recoupment, and writes a line item for every party. The split that was agreed is the split that gets paid, every period, without a spreadsheet in sight.
- check_circle Nested splits with no depth limit
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Split Tree
"Midnight in Lagos" · Single
Deal Terms
ActiveAdvance
$2,000
Recoupment
From net
Term
3 years
Territory
Worldwide
Escalator
Complex contracts, enforced automatically
A deal is more than a percentage. There are advances to recoup, terms that expire, territories that carve up the world, and escalators that change the math once a threshold is hit. Re-applying all of that by hand every cycle is how money goes missing.
On ToneGrid you encode the deal once. Every release attached to it inherits the terms, and the royalty engine enforces them on every payout: recoupment comes off the top, escalators flip at the right moment, and expired terms stop paying. The contract and the calculation are the same object.
Advances & recoupment
Track recoupable balances to zero before profit shares kick in.
Escalators & tiers
Share percentages that step up once a revenue or recoupment threshold is met.
Territory carve-outs
Different owners or shares per region, applied per stream by territory.
Terms & expiry
Deals that start, end, and revert rights on schedule, no manual cleanup.
From rights to payout in four steps
Register Rights
Capture owners on the master and publishing sides, attach identifiers, and let conflict detection clear the release before it ships.
Model the Deal
Build the split tree and encode the terms: advances, recoupment, escalators, territory, and expiry, all on one record.
Collect & Reconcile
Revenue is collected directly from 220+ DSPs and reconciled against every split tree, line by line, each cycle.
Pay Accurately
Statements publish to every dashboard and payouts run across multiple rails and currencies, fully audit-trailed.
Numbers anyone can trace and trust
Trust in a distribution business is built one statement at a time. ToneGrid produces branded, line-item statements every period, for the platform, each label, and each artist, with the path from a single stream up to the final payout visible at every level.
When an artist asks where a number came from, the answer is one click away, not a week of spreadsheet archaeology. Export to PDF or CSV, hand it to a rights holder, and move on.
Royalty Statement
Kizzy Banx · May 2026
Rights management that scales with your network
Running a white-label distribution platform means every label and sub-distributor you onboard brings its own rights, deals, and rights holders. ToneGrid's ledger was built for exactly that topology.
Each tenant manages its own catalogue under its own brand. You keep oversight across the whole network. And because rights review is a dedicated permission, you grant it to the people who need it without exposing billing or catalogue controls.
Per-Tenant Rights Consoles
Every label and sub-distributor gets its own rights and royalty workspace, scoped to its roster and shown under its brand.
Platform-Wide Oversight
Platform operators see consolidated rights and revenue across every tenant, catching overlap and exposure that a single roster would hide.
Role-Based Permissions
Rights review is its own permission group. Grant it to rights managers and finance staff without handing over the rest of the platform.
Immutable Audit Trail
Every change to ownership, splits, and deal terms is logged with who and when, giving you a defensible record for rights holders and partners.
Rights is one layer of the stack
Distribution Pipeline
Automated delivery to 220+ DSPs with QC, scheduling, and full delivery logs.
Explore arrow_forward securityAI Fraud Detection
Protect the royalty pool with AI screening for artificial streams and infringing uploads.
Explore arrow_forward hubDSP Integrations
The 220+ stores and platforms ToneGrid delivers to and collects revenue from.
Explore arrow_forward storefrontWhite-Label Platform
Run the entire distribution business under your own name, branding, and domain.
Explore arrow_forward apiDistribution API
Programmatic access to catalogue, rights, royalty, and delivery endpoints with webhooks.
Explore arrow_forward albumFor Labels
How labels run their catalogue, roster, and rights on ToneGrid infrastructure.
Explore arrow_forwardFrequently asked questions
What is rights management in music distribution? expand_more
Rights management is the system of record for who owns what in a catalogue and who gets paid for it. On ToneGrid that means a single ledger covering master (recording) rights, publishing (composition) rights, ownership splits down to the contributor, the deal terms attached to each release, and the identifiers (ISRC, UPC, ISWC) that tie it all together, so every dollar collected from a DSP lands in the right account.
How do royalty splits work on ToneGrid? expand_more
Splits are modelled as trees with no depth limit. A single release can flow from platform to sub-label to artist to producer to songwriter, with percentages, fixed fees, and recoupable advances at any node. When DSP revenue is reconciled each cycle, the engine walks the tree automatically and writes a line item for every party, so the split that was agreed is the split that gets paid.
Does ToneGrid handle both master and publishing rights? expand_more
Yes. ToneGrid separates the recording (master) side from the composition (publishing) side, each with its own owners, shares, and identifiers (ISRC for the recording, ISWC for the work). Writer and publisher splits, mechanical considerations, and neighbouring rights are tracked alongside the master so a label running both sides has one consistent rights picture.
How does ToneGrid detect rights conflicts before delivery? expand_more
Every release is screened at ingestion against the catalogue and the account history. Ownership overlaps, split allocations that do not total 100%, duplicate ISRC assignments, territory and sub-publishing conflicts, and embargo clashes are surfaced before the release is dispatched to any store, not after a DSP rejects the delivery or a rights holder disputes a payout.
When and how are royalties collected and paid out? expand_more
ToneGrid collects revenue directly from 220+ DSPs and reconciles it against each release's split tree every cycle. Tenants receive monthly statements in their dashboard, and payouts run on a monthly cycle, 10 to 15 days after each earning month closes. Payout rails include wire, PayPal, Payoneer, Paystack, Flutterwave, and approved digital currency, with configurable minimum thresholds at both the platform and artist level.
Can each label or sub-distributor manage its own rights? expand_more
Yes. ToneGrid is multi-tenant by design. Every label and sub-distributor on your platform gets its own rights console, scoped to its roster and shown under its own brand, while the platform operator keeps a consolidated view across every tenant. Rights review is a dedicated permission group, and every change to ownership, splits, or contracts is written to an immutable audit trail.
Get the rights right.
Everything else follows.
Rights management is built into ToneGrid's distribution infrastructure, not sold as a separate product. Launch your white-label platform with the ledger, splits, and payouts already wired in.