For , the question is never “what did we sell?”, it is “where is the sale treated as happening?”
VAT and its overseas cousins (GST, sales tax) are destination-style taxes: the right country to tax a service is decided by the place of supply rules, not by where the invoice is written or the bank account sits. Get the place wrong and you either charge VAT you shouldn't (and over-collect from a client), or fail to account for VAT you owed (and build a hidden liability abroad).
This trips advisers up because music services don't fit one box. A licensing fee, a management commission, a live performance, a session, a , each can have a different place of supply, and the answer often flips depending on whether the customer is a business (B2B) or a consumer (B2C).
The single most useful tool is the reverse charge: on most cross-border B2B services, the supplier charges nothing and the customer accounts for the VAT in their own country. It moves the tax, removes the need to register abroad, and is the mechanism advisers most often get wrong.
As always: the rates, thresholds and category rules below are illustrative and jurisdiction-specific. The reasoning is portable; the exact rule must be checked against the territory in play.