The global music industry generates billions in revenue every year, yet most of the value created by artists, collaborators, and fans is captured by a small group of centralized intermediaries. Record labels, distributors, and opaque platforms act as gatekeepers, deciding who gets access, who gets paid, and how much.
Artists are forced to sign away ownership in exchange for advances that turn into long-term debt. Collaborators such as producers and engineers are locked into flat fees, excluded from future royalties. Fans, who ultimately determine success through their engagement, remain shut out from the economic upside.
At the same time, distributors capture a meaningful share of digital revenue despite a largely technical role, and their private deals with DSPs make economics hard to compare across providers.
The music industry has always treated new technologies with suspicion. From the first mechanical reproductions to digital downloads and streaming, every advance was met with resistance, only to later become the very foundation for growth. These cycles reveal a pattern: innovation rarely originates from the center of power, but from the edges, from the artists and audiences themselves. SONGS stands in this lineage of change. It is not a threat to music, but the natural next step an open, programmable protocol that expands participation, increases transparency, and aligns incentives so that music’s value flows to those who actually create and nurture it.
SONGS was created to challenge this outdated model. We believe in a music economy that is transparent, equitable, and participatory an ecosystem where artists retain sovereignty, collaborators are rewarded fairly, and fans become active stakeholders in the success of the music they love.
Tokenizing the Music Market to Empower Artists, Fans & Creators while deeply improving efficiency, transparency, traceability and liquidity for all stakeholders.
SONGS transforms the music industry by turning every song into an asset with ownership structures that represent the legal needs on the actual word and the future world. Artists create, own & earn transparently. Fans fund and own music. Curators value, support, take a stake on their values. Entities support and earn their share transparently and fair.
Sovereign music over neutral rails for all, Create and Own, Distribute and Earn on the same rails, running transparently and efficient.
Beyond these visible inefficiencies, the very contracts at the heart of the industry are incomplete. When formats change vinyl to CDs, downloads to streaming labels capture more value while artists remain bound to outdated terms. Practices like “breakage” (undisclosed revenues from DSP advances kept by labels) further erode artist trust. These systemic flaws reveal an industry optimized for intermediaries, not creators.