Royalties

[Bender]

After being in the business forever I make about $50 a week in royalties. Not record sales just money from CD baby who does my digital distribution for songs and library music. It is amazing they report everything. iTunes Match, radio, tv, Spotify play = .01 times 50 lol
My question is I have an album I did that was local artists. I did it for the producing credit. The money I made was nothing and the artist could do what they want with the song. What about the 500 I sold. How do I figure what the artist is owed as a royalty. Regardless of the profit/loss of the album they must get something. No airplay just cd sales.

Thanks

[Wall2Wall]

Not regardless of profit/loss. U pay them whatever was negotiated after u recoup your investment (losses). You can be generous and recoup your losses from the total pie. Or you could be record company like and recoup your losses from their share before you kick out a percentage. Percentage is whatever u guys negotiated or u can use same percentages that u guys used for ascap/bmi, if the songwriting was shared, as a guide.