Automate Royalty Payments in Music with Blockchain Smart Contracts

The music industry struggles with delayed and opaque royalty payments. Smart contracts ensure transparent and automatic revenue sharing between artists, producers, and stakeholders in real time, reducing middlemen and increasing trust.

Build a royalty distribution system where each music asset (song, album) is registered with metadata, and a smart contract splits incoming revenue to collaborators (e.g., 50% to singer, 30% producer, 20% lyricist) on every payment transaction.

A music creator registers their content and defines contributors. The smart contract stores these royalty shares. When a user pays to stream, license, or purchase a song, the payment is automatically split and transferred to all parties. Optional NFT or IPFS integration can store or link to the music files and ownership proofs.

• Solidity smart contracts for song registration and revenue splitting
• Metadata including artist wallet addresses and royalty percentages
• React dashboard for managing songs, collaborators, and tracking royalties
• ERC-20 for token-based payments or ERC-721 for NFT-based music assets
• IPFS or Arweave for decentralized storage of music files or contracts

• Solidity Payment Splitting Example
• ERC-721 for Music Licensing
• IPFS for Music File Hosting
• Mirror.xyz – Web3 Publishing & Royalties