For artists and songwriters
Make your work pay what it is worth.
Your music is already playing in places you never hear about. Our job is to get that logged, collected and paid through to you — with the maths in the open.
What we do for you
From registered work to collected money
Registration and protection
We document the work and its authorship, and defend it when someone uses it without permission. Without registration there is nothing to claim.
Collection and splits
We chase what your music earns and pay it through. Every payment comes with the detail of where it came from.
Development and publishing
Records to make and release it, Publishing to exploit it. Both halves of the business, without you having to stitch them together.
Transparency
Your statement should not be an act of faith
We built our own software because royalty splits were being estimated. Our player logs which track played, in which venue and how many times, and that log is what drives the split.
- The play data comes from the player, not from a survey
- Every statement can be opened and checked line by line
- What venues pay is shared out against what actually played
AYAU Publishing
The part almost nobody explains to you
The publisher is who administers the rights in the composition: registering, licensing and collecting them wherever they are due. It is the part of the business that leaks most when nobody is watching it.
- Registration of works and of shares
- Licensing to third parties for commercial use
- Claiming what is not being collected
AYAU Records
Record it, release it, and keep it working
Putting the song out is the start, not the finish. We work the release and the recording’s life afterwards: where it plays, who uses it and what it returns.
- Production and release of the recording
- Distribution with the metadata in order
- The recording joins the one-stop catalog, rights already cleared
Before you write to us
Do I need to belong to a collecting society?
Not to talk to us. If you already do, we work with that; if you do not, we explain what it involves before you sign anything.
Do I lose ownership of my songs?
No. Administering rights is not buying them. We go through the specific terms with you, in writing, before anything starts.
Is it worth it with only a few songs?
Yes. What matters is that the work is properly documented, not how much of it there is. Write to us and we will look.
What if my music is already on the platforms?
All the better: there is history to review. Tell us where it is released and we check what is being registered and what is not.
Tell us what you have made
Send us your catalog or a link to your music. We will tell you straight what can be administered and what cannot.
