Neighboring Rights
A royalty category worth billions. The USA has no direct equivalent, which is exactly why most US artists miss it.
Neighboring rights are the master recording equivalent of performance royalties, but they apply primarily outside the United States. In Europe, Canada, Japan, and most of the world, every time your sound recording (not just the song, but your actual recording) is broadcast on radio or TV, both the featured artist and the rights holder earn neighboring rights income. These are completely separate from your streaming revenue.
Neighboring rights don't exist in US copyright law, so American artists rarely learn about them. You must register directly with each territory's collection society, and registration is not automatic. Artists with even modest European radio presence can accumulate thousands of euros in uncollected neighboring rights per year. Without a monitoring service, you will never know.
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