Eight free lessons, written for independent artists and small labels. Each one ends with three practical steps. No account, nothing to buy.
- Who owns what: the recording and the song
Every track carries two rights: the master recording and the song itself. Learn who owns each, and what a distributor does and does not do. - ISRC and UPC: the codes that follow your music
What ISRC and UPC codes are, why keeping them when you change distributor protects your streams, and where to find yours. - Neighbouring rights: the royalties most Gulf artists never collect
Radio, TV and public venues pay for recordings through societies such as SoundExchange and PPL. Who can register, and why Gulf artists miss this money. - YouTube Content ID, claims and your Official Artist Channel
How Content ID finds your music in other people's videos, what you can and cannot register, claims versus strikes, and Official Artist Channel basics. - Metadata that pays: names, scripts, credits and dates
One spelling of your name, one transliteration, complete credits and the right dates. How clean metadata earns money and how bad data quietly loses it. - Release planning: dates, pre-saves, seasons, lead times
How to choose a release date, set up a pre-save, plan around Eid and national-day seasons, and give stores the lead time they need. - How to read a royalty statement
Stores, countries, units, revenue and adjustments: what each column of a royalty statement means, why the numbers lag, and what a drop tells you. - Switching distributor without losing your streams
Move a catalogue in the right order: export first, keep your codes, overlap the deliveries, time the takedown, and verify every page afterwards.