Aeionica for Labels & Artist Collectives
A small label or collective juggles a roster's catalogs, per-track royalty splits, sync licensing contracts, leak protection on promos, and fan data scattered across a dozen tools — usually with a percentage of every sale disappearing into platform fees. Aeionica runs the whole operation on one platform: automatic per-sale splits to every artist via Stripe Connect, a 10-tier licensing catalog with auto-generated contracts, forensic leak tracing, and cross-roster fan analytics — at 0% platform transaction fees. The splits go to your artists, not to us.
What a Label Actually Runs on Aeionica
Aeionica gives a label or collective the operational backbone it would otherwise assemble from separate storefront, licensing, payout, and analytics tools:
The Split Engine
The collab splitter is the piece that makes multi-artist operations tractable. Instead of one payout to the label and a manual downstream distribution, each sale fans out to every collaborator automatically.
A Sync- and Broadcast-Ready Catalog
The higher license tiers are where a catalog earns beyond direct-to-fan sales. Each tier validates the rights at purchase against territory, audience cap, and required permissions:
Roster Onboarding and Showcase
A label rarely starts from an empty catalog. The migration wizard imports full discographies from Bandcamp (tracks, artwork, descriptions, and fan lists via OAuth), memberships from Patreon, WordPress music plugin schemas, and standard MP3/WAV/FLAC plus generic CSV/JSON — so bringing a roster's back catalog over is a per-artist import rather than a manual rebuild.
What Aeionica Is Not
Aeionica is the label's storefront, licensing, payout, and analytics infrastructure — it is not a DSP distributor and not a royalty-collection society. It does not push releases into Spotify/Apple ingestion pipelines (most labels keep a DistroKid or CD Baby account for that alongside Aeionica), and it does not collect performance or mechanical royalties from streaming services or radio on your behalf. It is also not a traditional label in the advance-and-A&R sense — it's the software layer. Its promise is narrow and honest: 0% platform cut on direct sales, licensing, and memberships, with splits routed straight to your artists. Where a provider (print fulfillment, an AI backend) isn't connected, the dashboard says so rather than pretending it ran.
FAQ
Via the collab splitter on Stripe Connect's multi-party transfers. You set percentages per track; when a sale clears, each collaborator's share lands directly in their own Stripe account, with Stripe handling 1099 reporting. Aeionica takes 0% — only Stripe's processing fee applies, and it goes to Stripe.
No. It's not a DSP distributor and doesn't feed those catalogs. Keep a DistroKid/CD Baby account for streaming distribution; use Aeionica for direct-to-fan sales, sync/broadcast licensing, and the 0% payout rails. The two are complementary.
On Enterprise, yes. Every download carries an inaudible per-buyer forensic fingerprint that survives MP3 compression and normal processing; preview clips also get a visible burn-in overlay. If a promo leaks, the extraction tool returns the recipient, license, timestamp, and transaction — court-formatted. Applying the watermark is available on lower tiers; the leak-trace tool is Enterprise.
After an exclusive purchase, the item's exclusive buyer is set and every other active license on it is marked `transferred` — past buyers keep the rights they already hold, but the item is locked against any future purchase by anyone else.
Yes. Each license tier carries an allowed-territory list validated against the buyer's country at purchase. On Enterprise, HLS streaming also enforces geo-IP territorial rules before issuing a session key, so a blocked region gets a clear "not available" response instead of a stream.
Yes. Fan analytics roll up top fans by LTV and engagement, geographic heatmaps, cohort retention, and fan segments, and the shared Aeion CRM record means the same fan is recognized across every artist and every purchase on the label.
Yes — print fulfillment integrates with Printful and Printify (vinyl, apparel, posters, and more), and a fan can buy a digital license plus a physical record in the same Commerce cart. If no print provider is connected yet, the dashboard reports that honestly rather than pretending an order shipped.
ML training rights are never included in a standard license. The AI Training tier is a separate, opt-in, tenant-priced license that is disabled by default — a label decides deliberately whether any of its catalog is available for training datasets.
Run the label. Keep the splits with your artists.
Automatic per-sale royalty splits, a 10-tier sync catalog with auto contracts, forensic leak tracing, cross-roster analytics — 0% platform fees. From $29/month.