We are super excited to work with Cookie on his new projects in 2017! Cookie Rabinowitz the “Soulman, Philanthropist, Optimist” singer, songwriter musician from Philadelphia who’s music is a funky pop R & B that is intoxicating.
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Winding Way Records signs Under the Oak
Winding Way Records is proud to announce we are now working with Under the Oak (Adam Monaco and Maggie Pope) to produce a new LP, CD, vinyl production, distribution, promotions plus studio and location videos! We are super excited about this partnership because Adam and Maggie are an amazing duo!
Winding Way Takes No Publishing Rights
As part of our Artist Advocacy model Winding Way Records will not attempt to take your publishing rights, reduce your royalty rates or do anything else that is underhanded.
We will always advocate for you in our contracts. For example, the industry in the past took 100% of the rights, shared net revenues 50/50 but only after trumping up marketing and distribution expenses. In reality these deals mean little or nothing for the artists after deducting the label overhead. These bad deals meant an Artist typically only received about 5% of the deal.
We are different – we take no copyrights, publishing rights or mechanical rights. In our deals you maintain your rights and license to us the right to publish and distribute your music. In exchange we offer a 70/30 split and only expense direct costs to produce, promote and distribute your music. No first class tickets, no expensive lunches, no unnecessary overhead expenses. If you don’t benefit we failed in our mission to be Artist Advocates.
In the past the industry contracts reduced the royalties due an artist. We will not have a Controlled Composition clause or “Cap” in any agreement in attempt to reduce the mechanical royalty rate that an artist is due. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) sets the royalty rate for authors of music (rights owner). We guarantee that we will not attempt to reduce this rate in any of our agreements. If someone offers you a record deal that has a “Controlled Composition” clause – walk away.
If we become your publisher, we help you register your music works with the Copyright office, register you at the leading Performance Rights Organization (PRO) such as BMI and help make sure your royalties are tracked correctly. Our publishing agreements are split on collections but just to give us the right to Administer your PRO registrations – we will not seek more than a 10 percent of collections in these deals.
Winding Way Records Chooses Amazon
Winding Way Music, a business unit of Winding Way Records, LLC. Chooses Amazon Online retailing as its primary online B2C distribution channel for sale of CDs, Vinyl Records and music sticks. Find us on Amazon here.
Winding Way Records Licensing Covers
Winding Way Records offers cover song clearance services so our Artists can legally produce and release a cover song and make sure the rights owner gets their mechanical licensing fees. We are offering this service for $125 a song plus the required mechanical license rate per CD/Vinyl/Download sold. See the current rates here.
In addition to the original rights owner, we can register the new master recording with a Performance Rights Organization (PRO) so you receive your share of the mechanical license royalties on any covers you release. See the cover song licensing faq here.
Winding Way Records Supports Vinyl
The Vinyl Records industry is projected at $1 billion by end of 2017 (up from $516 Million in 2016). We are happy that this medium has returned because it means solid mechanical royalties to the Artists and tangible art for the fans. Artists continue to struggle to make any money on streaming services so this rebirth of vinyl is great news. See the Forbes article here.
Winding Way is now an ASCAP Publisher Affiliate Member
Today, “3603 Winding Way Music” a publishing division of Winding Way Records, LLC. became a registered member of ASCAP. We are proud to be a member of this organization to help our Artists gain performance royalties from their music. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is the world leader in performance royalties, advocacy and service for songwriters, composers and music publishers.
Winding Way Records, LLC is now a Tunecore publisher
Winding Way Records adds Tunecore Music Publishing administration as an option to secure royalties. Tunecore helps us distribute music to iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, eMusic, Simfy, Deezer, Rhapsody, X-Box Live, MixRadio, MUVE Music, Groove, Kuack, N Music, iHeartRadio, Medianet, vervelife, Tidal, Gracenote, Shazam, 7Digital, Juke, SlackerRadio, Guvera, kkBox, akazoo, anghami, spinlet, Neurotic, Yandex Music, TargetMusic, Claro-Musica, Zvoog, Saavn, 8Tracks, Q.Sic, CÜR, Musicload and Pandora.
Winding Way Records, LLC is now a SoundExchange PRO Member
As part of our Sync Rep Licensing service to our Artists, Winding Way Records, LLC. is now a SoundExchange PRO Member. SoundExchange is the independent nonprofit collective management organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties to featured artists and copyright holders.
Winding Way Records, LLC. is a now a registered Recording Rights Owner under ISRC
As a recording rights owner under the ISRC system, Winding Way Records is now able to identify its music works using a unique ISRC code to manage its rights administration in electronic distribution of music through digital distribution companies and download sites to sell content online. This will ensure a means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments under Master & Sync Agreements.