How can you sell your music catalog?
A sale transfers the agreed rights and future income for a price. Start with ownership, income history and preparation, then compare the sale with options that keep your rights.
How to sell your music catalog
How Long Does It Take to Sell a Music Catalog?
A realistic timeline for a music catalog sale, stage by stage, and what speeds it up or slows it down.
How to Sell Your Songwriter Royalties
Learn what songwriter royalties can be sold, how writer and publisher shares differ, what buyers review, and when an advance may fit instead.
Inherited a Music Catalog? What Heirs and Estates Should Know
A practical guide for heirs to identify music rights, update royalty payments, manage co-heirs, and compare keeping, licensing, advancing or selling.
Who Buys Music Catalogs? Types of Buyers Explained
From major publishers to specialist funds and private investors: who buys music catalogs, what each wants and why it matters for your price.
Should I Sell My Music Catalog? 7 Questions to Ask First
Selling your catalog can change your finances, but it is not right for everyone. These seven questions help you decide if and when it makes sense.
Sell Masters or Publishing First? How to Decide
Compare masters and publishing by income, buyers, control and documents, then decide whether to sell separately, together or use an advance.
Can You Sell a Small Music Catalog? What Buyers Pay
Small catalogs can and do sell. Here is what counts as small, who buys them and what drives the price.
How to Sell Your Producer Royalties (Points)
Learn how producer points, publishing and neighbouring rights are paid, what buyers verify, and when a royalty advance may be suitable instead.
How Much Is My Music Catalog Worth? Valuation Guide 2026
How buyers value a music catalog: net income, multiples, decay and risk, a worked illustration, and how to estimate an indicative range before you sell.
Preparing Royalty Statements for a Catalog Sale
How to read and organize your songwriter and artist royalty statements, which years buyers ask for, and how to make due diligence faster.
What Music Catalog Buyers Look For Before Making an Offer
Nine music catalog due diligence checks, the documents buyers request, common deal blockers and what funders review for an advance or licence.
How can you get an advance and keep your rights?
An advance provides upfront money against income or a fixed-term licence without a permanent sale. Compare the amount, recovery terms and contract restrictions before choosing a structure.
Explore royalty advances and financing
Sell Your Music Catalog or Get an Advance? The Numbers Compared
Full sale, licence advance, royalty advance or unrecouped buyout: what each pays today, what you keep and a worked example to help you choose.
Distributor Advances in 2026: TuneCore, Amuse, UnitedMasters and the Alternatives
How automated distributor advances work, what TuneCore, Amuse and UnitedMasters publish, the hidden costs and when another structure fits better.
Types of Music Advances: Which One Fits Your Catalog?
Label, distribution, licence, publishing and royalty advances compared: what each one costs you in rights, how it is recouped and what happens if it is not.
How Much Advance Can You Get on Streaming Royalties?
What funders look at when sizing an advance on streaming royalties, which variables change an offer and how to prepare to strengthen your position.
Back Catalog Distribution Deals: Terms, Advances, Fees
Compare distribution only, advances and fixed-term licences, including fees, recoupment, exclusivity, due diligence and clear rights reversion terms.
Partial Catalog Sale vs Royalty Advance: How to Choose
A partial catalog sale and a royalty advance compared on cash, control, cost and long term value, so you can see which structure suits your goals.
Can you leave a deal while you are unrecouped?
An agreed, financed buyout may close an unrecouped balance and let you leave a contract. Your existing agreement, rights and income determine whether that option is available.
Explore unrecouped deal buyouts
Can You Leave Your Record Label If You Are Unrecouped? A Step-by-Step Plan
Why unrecouped artists see almost no royalties, why a label may accept an exit and how a financed buyout can make you independent again.
What Does Unrecouped Mean? Recoupment Explained
Understand advances, recoupment, artist royalty accounts, recoverable costs and unrecouped balances, then compare audit, waiting and buyout options.
How to Get Out of a Record Deal: 5 Real Routes
Compare five practical routes out of a record deal, what each involves, what happens to existing masters and which documents to prepare first.
Which music rights do you own and control?
Composition rights, masters and royalty shares are different interests. The law and your contracts determine what you can transfer, license or finance, so confirm the scope before discussing terms.
Can You Sell the Rights to a Song? What You Can and Cannot Sell
What song rights you can transfer, what stays with the author, and how laws, contracts and collecting societies affect a sale or licence.
What Is a Music Catalog? A Plain-Language Explanation
A clear explanation of what a music catalog is, what rights it includes, how it earns money and why investors buy them.
Masters vs Publishing Rights: What You Can Sell
How masters and publishing rights differ in ownership, income and control, and how to decide which to keep, sell, license or use for an advance.
Publishing Deal Terms Checklist: 10 Clauses to Negotiate
Check ten publishing contract clauses, compare ownership and splits, and understand how an existing deal affects a catalog sale or advance.
Music Catalog NDAs and Confidentiality During a Sale
How NDAs protect your statements, contracts and deal terms when you talk to buyers or funders, and what a catalog confidentiality agreement should cover.