Both Creator and Professional plans offer 100% royalty share, conditional on an active subscription. This article explains exactly how the share changes if a subscription lapses.
1.4.1 While your subscription is active
On both plans, you keep 100% of the royalties Madverse receives from DSPs for your music. Your subscription fee funds the platform — Madverse does not take a percentage of your active-subscription royalties.
1.4.2 If your subscription lapses
On both Creator and Professional, royalty share drops from 100% to 50% on future earnings until you resubscribe. Royalties already earned stay payable.
- Professional: your content stays live (Release Protection). You still earn at 50% until you resubscribe.
- Creator: releases are generally taken down. Anything released before 1 July 2026 stays live under the legacy protection exception. There is no extra grace period beyond that.
- Dashboard access to analytics, playlist pitching, and royalty analytics is restricted until you resubscribe.
Resubscribing restores 100% royalty share and dashboard access going forward.
1.4.3 Royalty share is separate from release protection
Whether your music stays live and what percentage you earn are two different questions that can have different answers depending on your plan. A release can be protected from takedown while still earning a reduced share.
1.4.4 How Spotify actually calculates and pays royalties
Per Spotify's own artist support documentation: Spotify does not pay a per-stream or per-play rate. Spotify distributes net revenue (after deducting taxes, processing fees, billing, and sales commissions) according to **streamshare** — the proportion of a given month's total Spotify streams attributable to a particular rightsholder. Spotify pays the rightsholder (Madverse, as distributor); Madverse then pays the artist according to the terms in this article.
1.4.5 UGC monetization is calculated separately
When your music is used in videos on Meta, TikTok, or YouTube, a 20% commission applies specifically to that UGC-driven income, on both plans — independent of the subscription-status rules above.
Source: MadDesk article 1.4 (1-4)