YouTube video segment (single-speaker) advising independent musicians to own their masters and use distribution tools (e.g., Stem) so royalties are paid to the artist/company first. The speaker emphasizes that receiving regular monthly payouts from a distributor makes it much easier to develop consistent reinvestment and investment strategies compared with sporadic payments (quarterly, biannual, annual).
When you reinvest in the money you make in the music business, owning your masters and controlling that, you are the first line of contact when the money comes in. And what that mean is if you got a, if you put your stuff out on stem, all your money come to you first. Right. And then stem also is paying everybody else out. But you're the first line of defense from your distributor. So your distributor pay you the money from here and it goes here to your company. When it goes to your company, then you're getting paid every month. It's way easier to develop a reinvestment strategy and an investment strategy if you're getting revenue every month. If you're not getting revenue every month and you're getting it twice a year. Yeah. You know, four times a year, once a year. It gets a lot difficult. It gets a lot different. It's too sporadic. Yeah, too sporadic.
