How earnings work: statements, periods and payouts
Where your earnings figures come from, how monthly payouts relate to store reporting, why attribution is release by period, and how to export statements.
Earnings shows what the stores have reported for your music: a figure per reporting period, and a figure per release, with your share of it worked out beside them.
The figures arrive later than the plays do, and they arrive by period rather than by day. That is the stores’ reporting rhythm rather than ours, and it is the thing worth understanding before you read the page.
Monthly payouts and current availability
The monthly payout offering described on run.audio covers 24 currencies, 10 stablecoins and 10k+ crypto tokens. Payout setup and withdrawals are not yet available in the workspace; you can currently view earnings statements and download CSV exports.
Your royalties are attributed by release and reporting period. A monthly reporting period tells you which store activity a figure belongs to; it does not confirm that a payment has been sent or that royalties from that month are already available to withdraw.
No payout date, minimum, fee or settlement time is published here. If you need help understanding a statement or the availability of payouts for your account, open a request at Support with the release and reporting period.
Where the figures come from
- Someone plays or buys your track on a store.
- The store counts it and reports it on its own schedule, month by month and in arrears.
- That report reaches our distribution pipeline and becomes a statement covering a period.
- We sync the statement and attribute each line to the release it belongs to.
- The figure appears on your earnings page under that period.
None of steps 2 to 4 is instant. A month of plays is reported after the month has closed, and the statement carrying it is issued after that, so a period reaches your page weeks after the plays themselves. The workspace says the same thing while the page is empty: earnings appear once your first statement lands, usually the month after your first full month live.
What a period is
A period is one calendar month of store reporting, written as a month and a year (August 2026). Every figure on the page hangs off a period, and periods are listed newest first.
A period exists only once something has been reported for it. There is no row for a month with nothing in it, and no running figure for the month currently in progress.
Amounts are shown in US dollars, which is the currency store royalties are reported in. These figures describe the reporting currency, not a restriction to one currency in the announced payout offering.
Attribution is release by period
Earnings are attributed release by period, never track by track. People ask about this often, so it is worth being blunt: there is no per-track earnings figure in Run, and we do not invent one by splitting a release total across its tracklist.
That gives you two views of the same data:
- By period. Every period reported so far, with the figure for it.
- By release. Each release, with its total across everything reported so far.
There is no per-track figure anywhere in Run, for money or for plays. Analytics is scoped the same way earnings are: all your releases together, or one release at a time.
Your share of it
Every figure on the page is shown as a short chain: what the stores reported, Run’s share of it, and what is left for you. There is nothing hidden between the lines.
| Line | What it is |
|---|---|
| Reported | What the stores paid for your music in that period |
| Run’s share | The commission for the plan that applied when the period was recorded |
| Yours | What is left, which is the figure the page leads with |
On either paid plan you keep 92%, and on Free you keep 70%. The split is stamped on a period the first time it is reported, so a later plan change never re-prices a month you have already seen. If a view covers periods on different terms, the page says so rather than implying one split covers all of it.
Your royalty split has the whole of it, including what the percentage applies to and what it never touches.
Figures can be restated
A period you have already seen can change. Stores correct their own reporting: a purchase refunded, a count revised, an adjustment applied to a month that had already closed. When a correction arrives, the corrected period replaces what we held for it rather than being appended to it.
That means the page always shows the current position rather than a history of edits, and it means the most recent periods are the most likely to move. Adjustments land in the period they belong to, not the period they arrived in.
Syncs run when a new statement is issued, and once a day besides. The Last synced tile tells you when we last reconciled. When a new period lands for one of your releases we email you. The mail quotes no figure, it points you at the page. See Notifications and emails.
Exporting
Download CSV on the earnings page gives you the whole thing as a file: one row per period and release, with the reported figure. It opens in any spreadsheet, which is the usual way to hand numbers to an accountant or reconcile them against your own records.
The tables on the page and the CSV come from the same data, so they agree by construction.
If a figure looks wrong
Earnings reporting is what the workspace shows today: what the stores reported, for each release, in each period.
Before assuming a number is off, check that the release is live everywhere you expect it to be, because a store that never received it reports nothing. Tracking delivery shows the per-store picture. If it still looks wrong, open a request at Support with the release and the period, and we will look at the underlying statement.