Narrative
When a client doesn't own the recordings but still owns the songs, is the lever.
A common situation: an artist signed their first proper deal young and didn't focus on the clause about .
Five years on, they have asked more than once to sell the masters back. The answer is always the same: not for sale.
Every stream of those six songs earns the artist roughly 18p in the pound. The label keeps the rest, and always will, unless something changes.
Here is the key fact an adviser should surface: the artist still owns the songs. The melodies, the chords, the words. What they do not own is that specific .
And that turns out to be the lever.