ASCAP is advised of the correct shares to be paid when members submit Title Registrations. For example, if two co-writers of a song share royalties equally, each will receive 50% of the total credits. The final step is to multiply credits by the appropriate CREDIT VALUE to arrive at the ROYALTY payment.

That’s way more revenue streams available than a tangible product like shoes. All music publishing income is split 50/50 between the songwriter and the publisher. This is typically referred to as the “writer share” and “publisher share” of income. No matter how many writers and publishers, the publishing royalties are split in this way.

ASCAP Members are eligible for premiums in respect to performances licensed by ASCAP. Such eligibility does not apply to performances directly licensed by Members (and not licensed by ASCAP) to licensees. CREDITS CREDITS X SHARE X CREDIT VALUE = $ ROYALTY When all of these factors are computed, we arrive at the number of total performance CREDITS.

Once registered, your works become part of the ASCAP repertory that they license to music users. ASCAP uses various methods of keep track of the billions of performance of their repertory each year. The will either conduct a census survey or a sample survey to count performances in any medium.