Investor Guides

Learn what differentiates your mechanical and performance royalty streams, and what it means for investors

What are mechanical royalties? Learn where mechanical come from, who pays them, and how you are earning mechanical royalties right now.

Here's how to find the information most important to you when reviewing a listing on Royalty Exchange

Royalties don't rust. They don't get sued by angry workers. And they don't require expensive tools or machinery to make money. Somebody creates it once and they make money for decades.

Investing in music royalties today is the opportunity to invest at the start of a boom and experience massive appreciation, collecting royalty income along the way.

Short answer--they pay recording artists for public performances. Long answer... it's complicated.

A quick visual guide to how different royalties are collected by different organizations, and pay different people.

Music used in TV, movies, and commercials can generate huge returns for three reasons