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title: Free music business calculators that show their working
publisher: RapCanon
canonical: https://rapcanon.com/tools/
license: CC-BY-4.0
retrieved: 2026-09-21
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> Free calculators for the parts of the music business that are arithmetic rather than opinion. Every tool shows its working and states what it does not model.

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# The parts that are arithmetic, not opinion.

 
A lot of what artists are told is complicated is just multiplication that nobody wants to do in front of them. These are free, they show their working, and each one states plainly what it does not model.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 Lookup 
 
### Which royalties does your distributor actually collect?

 
16 named organisations against 8 royalty streams, each cell read from that organisation's own documentation and dated. The short answer for most artists is that three separate payments exist and a distribution deal buys one of them.

 CC-BY 4.0 128 cells 
 
 
 
 Live 
 
### Beat Licence Checker

 
Pick a licence tier and what you want to do with it. Seventy-two resolved answers across the six standard tiers and twelve uses, with the specific trap named on each one. Two of them catch almost everybody: Content ID is not covered by an unlimited lease, and exclusive rights do not give you the publishing.

 Rights Open dataset 72 cells 
 
 
 Live 
 
### Publishing split checker

 
Buying a beat and owning the song are different things. Only one of five marketplaces publishes a composition convention at all; this works out your share and tells you which words to look for in your own licence.

 Rights Open dataset 
 
 
 Live 
 
### Recoupment calculator

 
Enter an advance, a royalty rate and the recoupable costs, and see the revenue required before the artist earns anything beyond money they already had, plus what the label has collected by that point. A $200,000 advance at 20% needs roughly $1,000,000 of revenue.

 Economics Shows its working 
 
 
 Queued 
### Split checker

Do your writer splits total 100% across every registration? The most common cause of a royalty going unmatched.
 
 Queued 
### Per-stream estimator

Honest version: shows the range and explains why every published figure differs, instead of inventing one number.
 
 
 
 
Four tools live. Queued tools are listed so you can hold us to them, not to make the shelf look full.

 
 

 
 
 
 Built by us 
 
### AutoSear: 32 studio plugins

 
Mixing and mastering plugins for producers, built and tested by the same person who runs this publication. Not a recommendation, not a review, and not compared against anything: it is ours, and it is how this site is funded.

 
Why this is the only advertising here. RapCanon exists because most answers to money-in-music questions come from companies with a product riding on the answer. A plugin has no position on what a stream pays, who owns a master, or how a credit is registered, so it can fund the work without shaping it. Our products are never reviewed, ranked or benchmarked on this site, and never appear inside a tool result.

 
See AutoSear ->
 How this site is funded

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  title  = {Free music business calculators that show their working},
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  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://rapcanon.com/tools/},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-09-21}
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