Walk through
Four ways a deal can pay the artist
Take a client with momentum, a last EP that charted without a major deal, and now several companies wanting to work with them: a , a label-services arrangement, a . They all sound like partnerships. They are not the same thing, because each one pays the artist in a fundamentally different way.
Traditional deal, a
pays a royalty, a slice of revenue (typically 18–25%) that only flows after the advance is recouped.