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How to enable royalty collection for tracks and albums

If any of the tracks or albums on your page are registered with or represented by any type of collection society (PRO, CMO, or similar), o...

If any of the tracks or albums on your page are registered with or represented by any type of collection society (PRO, CMO, or similar), or represented by a Music Publisher or Publishing Administrator, and Bandcamp is not currently accruing royalties for your sales, you'll need to manually enable this feature within the track/album editor.

Albums

For albums where all tracks are affiliated with a collection society, activate royalty accruals under the "Publishing Rights" section in the album editor. Simply tick the box labeled: "This album has been published on the songwriter’s behalf by a collection society or a CMO."

Screenshot of the publishing rights section of the album editor page.

Tracks

To enable royalty collection for specific tracks on an album, click on the affiliated track and find the "publishing rights" section on the right-hand side. There, check the box labeled: "This song has been published on the songwriter’s behalf by a collection society or a CMO."

Screenshot of the publishers section of the track editor page.

Once you hit “save,” this will immediately trigger an 11% accrual fee on sales in certain territories. More information on that here.

To turn off accruals on a track or album, you’ll need to open a dispute. Information on how to do that can be found here.

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