What you actually own when you lease a beat
Leases, exclusives, master rights and writer's share — in plain English, with the exact numbers GETMUSIC works to.
Most beat licences are written to be skimmed and not understood. You pay, you get a PDF, and the important part — who owns the record once it is out — is somewhere on page four in a sentence with three subclauses.
Here is the short version of how it works on GETMUSIC, with the actual numbers.
A lease is not a purchase
When you take a beat on a subscription, you get a non-exclusive leasing licence. Non-exclusive means exactly what it sounds like: the producer can license the same beat to other artists too. That is the trade — you are not paying exclusive-deal money, so you are not getting an exclusive-deal right.
What you are getting is the right to release a track built on that beat, worldwide, with no running licence fee.
The licence attaches at release, and then it is yours
This is the part worth reading twice.
Your subscription has to be active on the day you release the track. Once it is released under an active subscription, that licence is permanent. Cancel the subscription a month later, a year later, never come back — the tracks you already put out stay licensed. They do not need to come down.
What stops when you cancel is your ability to take new beats and release new tracks. The catalogue closes. Your back catalogue does not.
Who owns the master
This is where plans actually differ, and it is not a detail:
| Plan | What you download | Master rights |
|---|---|---|
| Basic / MP3 — $29/mo | MP3 master | 50% you / 50% producer |
| WAV Unlimited — $49/mo | WAV + MP3 master | 100% you |
| Trackout — $99/mo | Stems + WAV + MP3 | 100% you |
On the MP3 plan the producer keeps half of the master recording rights and half of the master royalties. That is a real split, not a formality: when your distributor pays out on that track, half of the recording revenue is the producer's share, and you and the producer are responsible for accounting to each other for it. GETMUSIC does not sit in the middle of that — we do not collect, split or escrow master royalties.
On WAV Unlimited and Trackout, the master is entirely yours. No split, nobody to account to.
If you intend to push a record properly, that difference matters more than the monthly price does.
Streaming is not capped
There is no stream limit on any plan. A track released on the $29 MP3 plan can be streamed without limit, on any DSP, for as long as it is up.
This used to be different — Basic / MP3 carried a per-track streaming cap. That cap was removed on 18 August 2026, and the removal applies to every track, including ones released before that date under the old wording. If you released under the cap, you are no longer under it.
Plans differ by the formats they include. Not by how much your record is allowed to be played.
Exclusives are a different thing entirely
An exclusive is not a bigger lease. It is an assignment.
When a producer sells a beat exclusively, the artist takes the entire copyright in the sound recording — the master and all the stems — outright. It stops being licensed to anyone else.
The composition is treated differently. The producer permanently keeps an undivided 50% passive writer's share of the underlying composition. They stay registered with their PRO as a 50% co-writer and keep collecting their composition royalties. What they give up is control: the artist administers and licenses the whole composition without needing the producer's approval.
So: recording, yours. Publishing, split down the middle, permanently — and that is standard, not a catch. A producer who wrote half the record keeps a writer's credit on it.
The short answer
- Lease — release worldwide, permanently, as long as your subscription was active on release day. Producer can license it to others too.
- MP3 plan — you split the master 50/50 with the producer.
- WAV or Trackout — the master is 100% yours.
- Streams — unlimited on every plan.
- Exclusive — the recording becomes fully yours; the producer keeps half the publishing as a passive writer.
The full wording, including everything this article compresses, is in the Terms of Service. If something here and something there disagree, the Terms are what govern — this is the plain-English version, not a substitute for it.