Streaming & downloads
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Studio Mtaani / Kenya
Your music earns.Your name just isn't on it.
In Kenya the gap is rarely talent or plays. It is identity and copyright. Studio Mtaani fixes both, so you own your work and everything it earns — today, and for as long as it plays. Anza na “Mambo”.
Free to join — Studio Mtaani only earns a cut after you've been paid.
01 Follow the money
Your song is a small business. Every play should pay.
A hit is not one paycheck. It is many small streams of money flowing at once. Here are the places a single Kenyan song can earn from.
Skiza & caller tunes
the Kenyan classicWhen a fan keeps your song as their ringback tune, you earn every month.
Radio & TV airplay
the big national stationsEvery spin owes you a performance royalty, nationwide.
Clubs, matatus & live
where Kenya actually hears musicWhen your song plays in public, a public performance royalty is due.
Sync & brand deals
adverts · films · shows · TikTokOne placement can pay more than a year of streams.
International plays
Lagos to London to the diasporaAfrobeats travels, and that money is yours too — if you are set up to collect it.
Creativity.
Culture.
Community.
Claimed.your name, on the work
03 Know what you own
Every recording is two copyrights at once.
Press play and you hear two separate pieces of property: the song and the recording. Each is owned, licensed and collected on its own. Get this and the rest follows.
Composition
Songwriter
Owns the song itself: the melody, chords and lyrics. It stays the same when someone else covers it.
Sound recording
Artist / Owner
Owns this take: this artist, this production, the captured performance. A cover is a new recording of the same song.
Performance
Every public play — radio, TV, bars, clubs, live and streaming — owes you.
Mechanical
Downloads, physical copies, and the copy sitting inside every stream.
Sync
Your music paired with visuals: film, TV, adverts and games.
Neighbouring
Broadcast and public play of the recording itself, not just the song.
04 The money is real
The gap is two things.
Your songs play everywhere. But without these two on record, the system has no way to send the money to you, so it goes missing.
Identity
Who made this, and which exact recording and song is it? Without your creator ID and the right codes on record, no platform can match a play back to you.
Ownership
Who owns what share? When the splits between artist, producer and writer live only in a conversation, the money arrives and the arguments begin.
Close these two and the plays you already have start paying you. That is the whole job.
05 Speak the language
No one gets to confuse you again.
The four words behind identity and ownership, in plain Kenyan English.
ISRC
the recordingThe global ID for one recording. It lets every platform match a specific play to you.
Code · 12 charsISWC
the songThe global ID for the underlying song: the melody and words, separate from any recording.
Code · T-000IPI
you, the partyYour global ID as a creator. It ties every song you make back to your name, wherever it plays.
Code · 11 digitsSplit
the shareWho owns what share. Agreed in writing, up front, so the money is never in doubt.
Agreement06 How it works
Four steps. That is the whole job.
No jargon and no promises we cannot keep. Just the work we run for every artist, in the same order, every time.
Fix your identity
Your name on the song, with the right codes for the recording and the work.
Lock your copyright
Ownership and splits agreed and signed in writing, before a shilling moves.
Collect what plays
With your ISRC registered through RIKE and the right platforms lined up, we make sure your plays are tracked and claimed, at home and abroad.
Get you paid
Verified earnings reach you on M-Pesa, the number you already use.
It all runs on WhatsApp. Nothing to download, nothing to learn.Free to join · We earn after you do
07 Power back to the creator
Getting you paid is only the start.
Studio Mtaani is building the rails that let artists own their future, not just their next payout.
You own your rights
Your identity and copyright stay fully yours. We set them up and hand you the controls. No middleman owns your work.
Yours, on recordYour catalogue becomes real value
Every song you register builds a track record of verified earnings — a growing body of work that is provably yours, and worth more the longer it plays.
Yours to build onTraining & capacity building
We train artists to understand and command their own rights, so the knowledge and the power stay in the community.
Knowledge stays homeRIKE
08 Built with RIKE
The whole country is listening.Now you get paid for it.
RIKE issues the ISRC — the official global code for a recording, and the first thing that lets a play be matched back to you. Studio Mtaani builds the rest of your identity and copyright around it.
09 Kila mtaa · kila genre
Every scene, from the bedroom studio to the main stage.
Gengetone to Benga — if it plays, it should pay. Studio Mtaani is built for every genre Kenya makes.
01 / EstatesScene
Gengetone
Born in the estates.
02 / Nairobi waveScene
Drill
The new Nairobi wave.
03 / VoicesScene
Afro-soul
Voices that travel.
04 / Log-drumScene
Amapiano
The log-drum sound.
05 / OriginalScene
Benga
The original groove.
Scenes shown for illustration. Photography is stock, to be replaced with real, consented programme artists.
10 In partnership with
This house is not built alone.
Your music is already out there working.
Bring the money home.
It is your music and your money. We fix the two things standing in the way — and the rest stays yours, for as long as your music plays.