FAQ
WHAT IS ROYALTYRISE
Royaltyrise was founded to support young artists and rising talents and to enable music fans to purchase (via crowd investing) the rights to receive proceeds from newly created and already existing music rights.
Royaltyrise is a music label, a music publisher, and an online platform, enabling music lovers to:
1. Invest in new and already existing music productions and their underlying works (songs).
2. Receive proceeds from new and existing music rights (master rights and/or publishing rights and/or author rights).
3. Secure the purchased rights as smart contracts in the blockchain, and
trade their smart contracts in the future on its own marketplace (to be launched in 2024).
WHAT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED
Royaltyrise presents investment opportunities on the platform royaltyrise.com to enable music fans to co-finance new music productions, their distribution & promotion, and the revival and marketing of existing music rights.
Together with our professional team of product managers, we:
1. Ensure music productions on the highest quality level, distribute the releases worldwide in all relevant streaming- and download stores.
2. Promote and market them with a focus on streaming- and radio promotion, create immutable smart contracts with a unique cover artwork animation.
3. Collect and distribute proceeds to all rights holders on the platform.
WHY SHOULD I INVEST
There might be various reasons:
​1. Being part of the monetary success of my favorite songs
For the first time, you can purchase shares of a new or existing hit song. When the investment opportunity ends (days left displayed on the opportunity page), you’ll receive your participation right agreement and a participation right certificate, which certainly looks nice on the wall of your living room. You will find a preview of the agreement and certificate on all opportunity pages.
Imagine you invested, at an early stage, in Ed Sheeran’s „Shape of you“, with participation rights to receive 10% of its proceeds from all streaming services. ​You would have made over 1.000.000 € until today, only from streaming!
It’s a fact: The music business has finally re-established a solid and sustainable business model with music streaming. In 2020 music streaming generated already 60% of all global recorded music revenues thanks to an increase of 20 % year on year! And the growth story even gets bigger as the music industry is now entering Web3 space. Be part of it now!
​2. Securing my participation rights in the blockchain as smart contracts
If you want to add more value, join the fast-growing music rights market and secure your investments as smart contracts in the blockchain. No crypto holdings or blockchain know-how is needed. We help you to activate your smart contract wallet with a few clicks.
When the song is released you will find your music assets whether secure as smart contracts or not as a digital cover-artwork-animation embedded with the final song in your dashboard.
3. Discovering and supporting up-and-coming artists
Last but not least, for many of our investors the most important reason is simply to support artists. Artists are people who dedicate their lives to music. On their journey, they often don’t care about financial security and go all-in for their passion.
Many extremely talented artists struggle with financial issues because their time in the spotlight has not come yet. By investing in talented artists, you will help to level the playground for sustainable success. With your support, we are able to give our artists the highest royalty rates in the industry. Your investment is in good hands and flows directly to the buildup of great careers.
WHAT ARE SMART CONTRACTS
Smart contracts are used on the Royaltyrise platform in order to secure your investments immutable and perfectly traceable on the blockchain. By utilizing computer code and blockchain technology, smart contracts enable secure and transparent transactions without the requirement of a central authority, legal system, or external enforcement mechanism.
Although it is voluntary to create smart contracts out of your investment, we highly recommend it. Of course, you will still have the same participation rights and are receiving earnings, when not creating your smart contracts.
Creating smart contracts from your investments has a lot of benefits for you:
1. Secure your share and participation rights immutable and perfectly traceable in the blockchain.
2. Own the participation rights AND a cover-artwork-animation from a limited edition.
3. Be eligible to trade your music assets (music shares or music collectibles) in 2024.
HOW DO I GET MY SMART CONTRACTS
At the end of a successful investment, you can simply secure your investments as smart contracts in the blockchain.
To obtain your smart contracts from your rights, you have to complete 2 steps:
1. Activate a smart contract wallet (magic wallet): It’s as easy as possible, you will only need to confirm the activation with a click on a button in a short message, which will be sent to the email of your choice.
The activation and the operation of your magic wallet is free. A wallet is needed to secure music assets like e.g. your music shares or music collectibles. As long as your music assets are inside that wallet, you are entitled to receive your respective share of revenues from your participation rights.
2. Execute a know your customer validation on the dashboard of your account:
1. Secure your share and participation rights immutable and perfectly traceable in the blockchain.
2. Own the participation rights AND a cover-artwork-animation from a limited edition.
You can also choose to let us create smart contracts of all your previous (old) investments and for all those songs you will purchase in the future, with checking the respective checkboxes in the process. As soon as the song and/or its versions are released, you will receive your smart contracts including a digital cover-artwork-animation embedded with the final song in your dashboard.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO TO SUPPORT ARTISTS
Of course, the fans of an artist are essential and valuable to support the commercial success of a song and an artist.
Artist profiles: Check out the social media channels and the profiles of your artists in streaming stores (eg Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, etc.). Create playlists, play, like and save your songs and follow the artists to contribute to their success.
Promote your songs and artists you are invested in: Share the artist profiles on social media and help to create awareness, increasing the artists popularity and fan following.
Playlists: Create your own playlist on Spotify or another platform and share it with your friends and family, increasing listeners and generating income. Sharing your list across social media can help drive streams to your invested songs, increasing your and artist’s proceeds. Our team will provide you with even more information and easy-to-use tips on “How to promote your song?“ along the way to jointly promote our great releases.
I AM A TAKING A RISK IF A INVEST?
WHAT HAPPENS IN A MUSIC PRODUCTION
With the same quality standards, we are onboarding newcomer artists and partnering with do-it-yourself artists and independent labels. This ensures you as an investor that your funding will be spent with the highest possible outcome in the production of the songs of all artists on our platform. You will be notified on a regular basis about the progress of the production, the release date, and continuous successes after the release of the song (eg placements in international charts, playlists, etc.).
IS STREAMING A GROWING BUSINESS?
To give you an impression about the revenues generated from music streaming: If a track reaches 10 million streams on Spotify, it generates approximately 50.000 EUR overall streaming platforms.