Streaming
How to Get Your Music on YouTube Music
Google's dedicated music streaming service inside the YouTube ecosystem.
YouTube Music is Google's dedicated music streaming app, billed separately from the main YouTube platform but sharing the same content library and ad infrastructure.
Two ways your music earns on YouTube
It generates royalties from both subscription streams and ad-supported plays. Separately, Content ID monetizes your recording when it's used in other people's videos, a stream of revenue that often goes unclaimed. Each carries a composition royalty alongside the recording side.
How Notes works with YouTube Music
Notes delivers your recordings to YouTube Music, registers your ISRCs with YouTube Content ID where eligible, and collects both the recording and the publishing royalties that flow through YouTube's licensing deals with PROs and MROs worldwide.
At a glance
YouTube Music at a glance
- Based in
- United States
- Pays
- Monthly
- Audio formats
- MP3WAVFLACAAC
- Territories
- Worldwide
How Notes works with this platform
What we do on YouTube Music
- Deliver. Notes ships your sound recordings to YouTube Music 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 YouTube Music, plus the performance and mechanical royalties behind every play, are reconciled in one place, with no percentage taken.
What you earn here
Royalties YouTube Music generates
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
Your YouTube Music 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 YouTube Music
- How does my music earn on YouTube Music?
- Two ways: subscription streams and ad-supported plays, each paying recording royalties plus a mechanical and performance royalty on the composition. Separately, YouTube Content ID earns ad revenue when your recording is used in other people's videos.
- What is YouTube Content ID and how do I get paid from it?
- Content ID matches your recording across user-uploaded YouTube videos and collects the ad revenue those uses generate, but only for recordings registered with it. Notes registers your ISRCs with Content ID where eligible so that revenue is matched to you instead of going uncollected.
- Does being on YouTube Music collect my publishing royalties too?
- No. Delivery handles the recording side. The composition's mechanical and performance royalties are collected separately through The MLC and the PROs, and through YouTube's licensing deals with collection societies, and only if your songs are registered. Notes registers both sides.
- Does Notes take a percentage of my YouTube Music 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 YouTube Music pay?
- YouTube Music pays Mechanical, Performance and Sync royalties.
- What territories does YouTube Music cover?
- YouTube Music is available worldwide.
- How often does YouTube Music pay royalties?
- YouTube Music distributes royalties monthly.
- Where is YouTube Music based?
- YouTube Music is based in United States.
- What audio formats does YouTube Music support?
- YouTube Music supports MP3, WAV, FLAC and AAC.
More streaming platforms
Notes delivers to all of these
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Amazon Music
- Tidal
- Deezer
- Pandora
- SoundCloud
- Audiomack
- iHeartRadio
- Napster
- Anghami
- Boomplay
