Royalty coverage
Does TuneCore collect songwriter performance royalties?
Partly
Publisher share only, stated in plain text in TuneCore's own documentation. The writer share continues to be paid to you by your PRO.
What this stream is. Paid when the composition is performed or broadcast. Split into a writer share and a publisher share, and those two halves can be collected by different parties.
Worth knowing about TuneCore
- Distribution and publishing administration are two different purchases. Buying the first does not start the second.
- TuneCore is one of the clearer companies here: it states the publisher-share-only rule outright rather than leaving it implied.
Read from TuneCore's own documentation on 2026-08-13. Check it yourself — and if it has changed, tell us.