How do EDM producers make money?

Most producers get royalties from their music. Royalties are basically funs generated by exposing your music on festivals or streaming platforms for instance. A producer won’t get royalties from their music if the music isn’t registered with a P.R.O or if producers choose to sell their music as ghost productions. Once you sell a track as a ghost production you will transfer the rights of the music to the buyer of the track.

Mechanical royalties are royalties generated through selling digital and physical recordings of the music from the producers. This money will be collected by the distributors and are later split between the ones who are entitles to these royalties.