Los Angeles-based distribution and services company Create Music Group has launched a free mobile app that aims to eliminate songwriting disputes between writers, producers and artists.
The SPLITS app makes it possible for songwriters to generate a split agreement – the document music publishers use to clarify individual contributions to a song.
To create a SPLITS agreement a writer simply has to open the SPLITS app and create a new agreement, add collaborators and set their contribution percentage.
SPLITS will automatically send a notice to the writer’s collaborators along with a snippet of the song and if the collaborators agree they just click “agree.”
If they don’t, they make adjustments. Once all parties agree, the Splits Agreement is sent to the writers’ publishers with an email to each collaborator.
“We’re introducing SPLITS to the creative community as an easy, non confrontational way for creatives to agree upon songwriting contributions at the time of creation, all with just a few clicks right from the screen they spend the most time on everyday – their phones.”
Alexandre Williams, Create Music Group
Create says that its Co-Founder Alexandre Williams came up with the idea for SPLITS and that it has been testing the app in the App Store since early this year.
PittThaKid, a producer who has worked with Jaden Smith, 2 Chainz, Schoolboy Q and others, said: “The opportunity provided to writers through SPLITS to deal with publishing from anywhere, anytime right from their phones is a game changer.
“Major respect to Create Music Group for making such an important & innovative app.”
Alexandre Williams said: “In the three years that we’ve been working with songwriters and artists, we’ve had to deal with thousands of tracks where the songwriting credits were either incomplete or where there were disputes which ultimately resulted in less royalties for everyone involved.
“We’re introducing SPLITS to the creative community as an easy, non confrontational way for creatives to agree upon songwriting contributions at the time of creation, all with just a few clicks right from the screen they spend the most time on everyday – their phones.”
Hit producer GooseTheGuru (Trippie Redd, Lil Skies, Chris Travis) added, “Man, if only there were something like SPLITS available back when I was coming up, I would probably have gotten credit on a lot more records by having this tool in my arsenal. This is a powerful tool for songwriters, producers and artists to deal with songwriting splits right in the studio and avoid headaches later on.”
Other successful writers using Splits include C4, Young Chop, Chase the Money, C Note, Sonny Digital, Chop Squad DJ and Roccstar.
