The producer guide — how you get paid on GETMUSIC
How producers get paid on GETMUSIC: the daily revenue pool, live beats explained, plans, exclusives, referrals, and straight answers on the platform fee.
If this is the first page you've landed on: GETMUSIC is a beat platform where artists subscribe to the whole catalog instead of buying beats one at a time. For you as a producer that flips the revenue shape. Selling one-off leases caps your upside at one transaction per artist; here, artists' subscription money flows into a pool every single day, and your share of it follows the activity on your beats — for as long as your catalog is live.
How it works, start to finish
Upload your catalog. Uploads are unlimited on every plan, and every upload passes moderation before it goes live. Your producer credit stays on every beat, always.
Your plan sets how many beats are live. Live means published in the catalog — visible to artists, catching plays, downloads and releases, earning from the pool. Beats over your limit wait in your library; nothing is ever deleted.
Artists subscribe and use your beats. One monthly fee unlocks the whole catalog for them. They listen, like, download, record — and release tracks on your beats.
Activity fuels the daily pool. Every artist subscription is spread across 30 days, and each day's slice lands in that day's pool. A fresh pool every day is split between producers based on real engagement with their live beats.
You get paid. Your slice of each daily pool lands in your wallet. Earnings come from what actually happened on your beats — not from a lottery and not from a payout schedule someone decides by hand.
Live beats, properly explained
This is the part of the model worth understanding exactly, because it's what your plan actually buys.
- Uploading is never limited. Upload your whole drive on day one, on any plan.
- Live is what earns. A live beat sits in the catalog, gets found in search, and every play, like, download and release on it feeds your pool share. More live beats = more surface area = a bigger share.
- Over the limit = hidden, not deleted. Hidden beats aren't in the catalog and don't earn, but they keep their stats, their credit and their files. Free a slot or upgrade, and they're back.
- Downgrading or cancelling moves you to the Free tier, which keeps 10 beats live. You get 3 days to choose which ones; if you don't, your 10 most recent uploads stay by default. Everything else hides — and comes back the moment you resubscribe.
- Releases survive everything. Any track an artist released on your beat stays licensed forever, whatever happens to your plan afterwards.
The money model
A flat platform fee. 20% runs the marketplace. Most of what's left flows to producers through the daily pool, after a small operational reserve that covers refunds and chargebacks. The exact breakdown is in the Terms — not buried, actually in there.
Activity drives your share. Plays, likes and downloads all feed it, and releases feed it most by far. A released track is the strongest thing that can happen to a beat — the model pays accordingly. What doesn't count: your own plays on your own beats, and botted engagement. Anything that looks gamed is reviewed and can be reversed.
Daily, not monthly. Because subscriptions are spread over 30 days, your catalog earns every day artists are active on it — you're not waiting for a sales event that either happens or doesn't. Withdrawals unlock once your wallet balance reaches $30.
Multi-producer beats. Add a co-producer at upload and set the split yourself — 50/50, 70/30, whatever you agreed. Pool earnings divide automatically. No chasing anyone for their cut.
Exclusives stay yours. Sell any of your beats exclusively — from $150, you set the price. The artist pays you directly, the beat goes off-market, GETMUSIC takes the same flat 20%. Exclusive sales sit entirely outside the pool.
Producer plans
| Plan | Price | Live beats | What you add |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10 | Earn from the pool, standard placement |
| Starter | $14/mo | 30 | Custom profile, WAV & trackout upload, basic analytics |
| Standard | $29/mo | 150 | Priority placement in catalog & search, advanced analytics, type-beat playlists |
| Pro | $49/mo | Unlimited | Top-of-search promo, full analytics, priority support |
Pay yearly and the same plans run $12 / $20 / $33 a month, billed annually.
Uploads are unlimited on every tier — the number is how many stay visible at once. And yes, the Free tier really earns from the pool: ten live beats, zero dollars in, real payouts out.
Refer & Earn
Your code pays two ways, and both beat the pool per action:
- Invite an artist — when they subscribe with your code and pay their first invoice, you get $29 flat, in cash, whichever plan they picked. It lands in your wallet after the 30-day refund window and withdraws like pool earnings. Your invite gets 25% off their first month, so the code is worth sharing, not just posting.
- Invite a producer — when they publish their first beat (not just sign up), you get $10 in promo credit for boosting your own beats.
Your code and three ready-to-paste lines — sized for a YouTube description, a bio and a pinned comment — are on your Refer & Earn page, under Wallet. The best placement is wherever people already hear your beats. Full rules: Refer & Earn — how your code pays you.
Straight answers
How much can I expect to earn? We don't promise numbers, and you should be sceptical of any platform that does. Your share of each daily pool is proportional to engagement and releases on your beats. More live catalog, more impressions, bigger share — that's the honest formula.
Why a subscription instead of letting me sell one-off? Per-beat selling caps you at one transaction per artist, and your beat stops earning the day after the sale. Here artists keep coming back, and your catalog earns from every release on it. Exclusives still exist for one-off ownership sales — they live outside the pool.
Do I have to leave BeatStars / my YouTube channel? No. We don't ask for exclusivity on your catalog — only on the individual beats you sell as exclusives here. Keep every channel you have; the difference is the revenue shape, not a lock-in.
What happens when an artist cancels their subscription? Tracks they released while subscribed stay licensed — and the points those releases earned you stay earned. What stops is their ability to take new beats.
Can I cancel? What happens to my beats? Cancel anytime, your account moves to Free: 10 beats stay live, the rest hide (never delete) and return when you're back. Full rules in the live-beats section above.
How do co-producer splits work? Set the share at upload; the pool divides automatically by those shares.
Is this real? Fair question — every new platform owes you that answer. Browse the live catalog and look at the producer credits, read the Terms — the fee breakdown is in there — and start on Free: zero cost, ten live beats, and you can watch the pool work before you put a card anywhere.
The fastest way to understand it is to walk in. Open the catalog.