How do splits work?
Short answer
A split shares a release's future income with people who hold rights in it. Open the release in My Music and choose Open splits. Everyone needs a Kakorri account and accepts in the app; nothing changes until everyone asked has answered, and a split applies from the first full usage month after everyone asked has answered. You can also add shares when you add credits on the upload page: a new release can be submitted once everyone with a share has accepted.
- Open the release in My Music and choose Open splits.
- Add each person by their email, with their share. Everyone with a share needs their own Kakorri account to accept, and they get an invitation to open one if they have none. You can also set shares in a track's credits on the upload page.
- They get an invitation. Each accepts the Payout Terms and confirms they hold rights in the release.
- When everyone asked has answered, the split applies from the first full usage month after everyone asked has answered. Earlier months stay as they were.
- Up to 20 people besides you on a release.
- A proposal that not everyone has answered within 30 days lapses, and nothing changes.
- A new release with shares can be submitted once everyone with a share has accepted. The upload page shows who is still to answer.
- A change asks the people whose shares change. A refusal to reduce or remove an existing share stops the whole change; declining an increase or a new share only drops that share, and it goes to the release owner. Unchanged shares need no new answer. It applies to future income only.
- With a label: the label owns the release and proposes the split. You see the whole split, nothing about money applies until you accept your own share, and Kakorri pays you directly.