Streaming
How to Get Your Music on Tidal
Hi-fi streaming with an artist-focused payout model.
Tidal is a hi-fi music streaming service known for lossless audio and an artist-centric brand, serving a smaller but highly engaged audiophile and artist-supporter audience.
How it pays
Like other interactive services, a Tidal stream earns recording royalties for the master plus mechanical and performance royalties on the composition, with the publishing side collected separately from the recording side.
How Notes works with Tidal
Notes delivers to Tidal and reconciles its payouts, recording and publishing, against the rest of your distribution, so a Tidal-heavy listener base translates into accurate, fully-collected revenue.
At a glance
Tidal at a glance
- Based in
- United States
- Pays
- Monthly
- Audio formats
- MP3WAVFLACHi-Res/LosslessDolby Atmos
- Territories
- Worldwide
How Notes works with this platform
What we do on Tidal
- Deliver. Notes ships your sound recordings to Tidal as part of every release, with credits and ISRCs included.
- Register. Your songwriter credits are registered with PROs and The MLC so the publishing side of every play is paid as well.
- Collect. Recording royalties from Tidal, plus the performance and mechanical royalties behind every play, are reconciled in one place, with no percentage taken.
What you earn here
Royalties Tidal generates
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
Your Tidal recording royalties reach you through Notes, and we register you with The MLC and your PRO so the rest is collected too, all paid to you in full with no percentage taken.
- Recording RoyaltiesRecording royalties are what the master earns: the recording revenue your distributor collects, plus digital-performance royalties.
- Mechanical RoyaltiesMechanical royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers each time a composition is reproduced, including every interactive stream and download.
- Performance RoyaltiesPerformance royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers when a composition is performed publicly: on radio, TV, in venues, or via streaming.
Questions musicians ask
Common questions about Tidal
- What does a Tidal stream pay?
- Like other interactive services, a Tidal play earns recording royalties for the master plus a mechanical and performance royalty on the composition, with the publishing side collected separately through The MLC and the PROs. Per-stream value depends on Tidal's revenue, the listener's market, and the period's total streams.
- Does being on Tidal collect my publishing royalties too?
- No. Delivering to Tidal handles the recording (master) side. The composition's mechanical and performance royalties are collected separately through The MLC and the performing-rights organizations, and only if your songs are registered. Notes registers both sides.
- Does Notes take a percentage of my Tidal royalties?
- No. Notes is a simple $5/month subscription with no percentages and no hidden fees. The royalties from both the recording and publishing sides are paid to you in full.
- What royalty types does Tidal pay?
- Tidal pays Mechanical and Performance royalties.
- What territories does Tidal cover?
- Tidal is available worldwide.
- How often does Tidal pay royalties?
- Tidal distributes royalties monthly.
- Where is Tidal based?
- Tidal is based in United States.
- What audio formats does Tidal support?
- Tidal supports MP3, WAV, FLAC, Hi-Res/Lossless and Dolby Atmos.
More streaming platforms
Notes delivers to all of these
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Amazon Music
- YouTube Music
- Deezer
- Pandora
- SoundCloud
- Audiomack
- iHeartRadio
- Napster
- Anghami
- Boomplay
