MTX Records
Your song. Our name.
You keep the song. For two years the label on it is MTX Records. There is no fee to be heard. A yes means the recording is delivered to the major platforms.
$0
to be heard
No read fee. No setup fee. Send the song. If the answer is no, you pay nothing.
70 / 30
you / the label
Of the money MTX Records actually receives from that recording. You keep the song.
2 years
then it leaves
The license ends by itself. The name comes off unless both sides sign again.
Where it is heard
The major platforms. The MTX Records name.
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Amazon Music
- YouTube Music
- Deezer
- Tidal
- Pandora
A signed release is delivered there. People do not have to leave the apps they already use to find it.
This is not a listing. A place in the house is a card and your own store. MTX Records is the label. We listen to a finished recording. We say yes or no. If yes, both sides sign, and the song goes out under the MTX Records name to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and the other major stores. We do not sign everyone. A no is a real answer, and it costs nothing. We do not promise a playlist. We promise the song is where people already listen.
01
The listen
There is no fee. Send a finished recording you have the right to release. The label listens and gives a written yes or no. A yes is not a promise until both sides sign the recording agreement. A no ends it.
02
If we say yes
You still own the song and the recording. This is not a work for hire. MTX Records receives an exclusive license to release, distribute, stream, sell, and promote that recording, worldwide, for two years from the first release date. The label delivers it to the major platforms — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and the other major stores — under the MTX Records name. During those two years you do not put the same recording out somewhere else.
03
The name
The release is credited to MTX Records. You may say, truthfully, that MTX Records released it. When the two years end, new copies are not presented as MTX Records. You may still say it was originally released here. The label takes it down from stores it controls within thirty days.
04
The money
There is no advance. Of the money the label actually receives from the recording, you receive 70 percent and the label receives 30 percent, paid quarterly with a statement. A cost is deducted before that split only if both sides wrote it on the contract. Anything else is the label's, and it is not billed to you. Money a performing-rights organization pays you directly for the song is yours. It is not part of this split.
05
When the two years end
The license ends by itself. No one has to ask. The recording is yours to take anywhere. You do not call a new release MTX Records unless both sides sign again. Either side can end the license sooner if the other side breaks the contract and does not fix it within thirty days of written notice. Not because the song sold slowly.
What this is not
- A fee to be heard, or a fee to be signed.
- The label owning your song or your recording.
- A share of songwriter money paid straight to you.
- A promise of a playlist, a chart, or a number of streams. The promise is distribution.
- A promise that every recording is accepted.
- A listing. If you want a card and your own store, that is a place in the house, and it does not use this contract.
- A job. Signing is not employment.
The contract
Nothing goes out until both sides sign.
The agreement is the deal on this page, with a place for the song, the name, and any cost you both agree to write down. If the artist is under 18, a parent or guardian signs too. One recording per contract. Another song is another signature.
The other doors
A card is not a label. A book is not a record.
If you already know how to release your own music and only want it sitting in the house, that is a place in the house. If the work is a manuscript you want the House to publish, that is MTX Publishing House. This page is for a recording that carries the MTX Records name.