Songwriting, Publishing & Distribution

Standard Operating Approach @ The Wonder Space

Master Recording Royalties
At The Wonder Space, we operate on standard pop splits for sound recording royalties (masters)—evenly divided across all key contributors. As a Wonder Space artist or hired vocalist for a Wonder Space Project, you'll get an equal share via a SymphonicMS payee invite, with producer / studio retaining primary ownership.

Songwriting & Publishing
Songwriting splits are handled separately via split sheets—Wonder Space provides SoundCredit invites for easy collaboration and credits. As this is not legal advice, please make sure you do the [often tedious] research on songwriting and publishing. You will need to do things like…

  • Register with a PRO (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC)

  • Register with MLC

  • Consider a publishing administrator (SongTrust) or handle things on your own

  • Email your full PRO name and IPI number to your producer ASAP

Next Steps
Expect SymphonicMS and SoundCredit invites. This is our standard producer/studio process—equal master splits promote fairness while keeping projects moving.

In your independent research, you will want to understand all of the things….

  • Master / Master Recording / Masters

  • Publishing

  • Publishing Admin / Pub Admin deal

  • Co-publishing deal / Publishing deal

  • Credits

  • Pop splits

  • Song splits

  • Split sheet

  • Royalties

  • Distribution

  • Sound recording

  • PRO

  • IPI

  • ISRC

  • Catalog

  • Sync / Sync rights

  • Single

  • EP

  • Album

  • Instrumental

  • Stems

  • Production

  • Record (an individual song song)

  • Stream

  • Catalog

SONGWRITER / PUBLISHING RESOURCES

Songtrust

Symphonic

Ari’s Take - if you only look at one resource, consider this one. It’s a long article with lots of graphics to explain songwriting and publishing. It also has a comparison chart of TuneCore and Songtrust, two different publishing administrators. A newer pub admin is KoSign.

Note: two of the following videos will mention KoSign. I am not suggesting you do or don’t apply for KoSign. I do not use them, they’re a very similar website to Songtrust and TuneCore.

KoSign is an approval-based publishing admin. They are a part of a larger company called Kobalt that I am signed to in a publishing admin deal. Again, I am not endorsing either company. Videos below have a lot of helpful details regardless of if you choose to admin on your own or use a pub admin. —jg