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# Royalty Exchange Passes $50 Million Paid Milestone
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/royalty-exchange-passes-50-million-paid-milestone/
- Published: 2019-01-25T16:18:15.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-25T16:18:15.000Z
- Description: Royalty Exchange announced this week that it had paid out over $50 million from 535 royalty transactions in the three years since the company relaunched in 2016. 255 investors participated. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/01/royalty-exchange-passes-50-million-paid-milestone.ht
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Business, Songwriting & Music Publishing, copyright, DIY, DIY musicians, indie, music, music industry, Music Tech, musician, musicians, Royalty Exchange, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

[![image from shorefire.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad3d778ad200b-200wi "image from shorefire.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad3d778ad200b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Royalty Exchange announced this week that it had paid out over $50 million from 535 royalty transactions in the three years since the company relaunched in 2016\. 255 investors participated in the funding. [![image from s3.royaltyexchange.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad391c557200c-450wi "image from s3.royaltyexchange.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad391c557200c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Royalty Exchange is touting the marketplace as a funding source for the musical middle class with 52% of the catalogs listed earning $20k or less in the prior 12 months. 75% of the artists who listed catalogs on our marketplace were songwriters.Initially, all listings on Royalty Exchange were for permanent royalty sales, usually for just a percentage of a catalog and the copyrights generally weren’t included. But over the last year, they've added options:
- **Temporary sales** that function much like an advance in that royalties revert back to the creator after 10 years. The result – larger advances with no recoupment commitment. These have driven 60% of all the transactions conducted since they were introduced.
- **Shared catalogs**, where instead of auctions with a single winner-take-all highest bidder, multiple investors can buy shares of catalogs larger than what the auction platform can support. These drove over 35% of all transactions and brought in new investors and creators to the marketplace.