• BAND Royalty: Revolutionizes music industry
• Does "Music Mogul Club" access NFT royalties? 
• What is an NFT anyway (non-fungible token)?
• What makes BAND Royalty NFTs unique?
• Where and how do I buy a BAND Royalty NFT?
• How do I buy Ethereum to then get the NFTs?
• What is BAND's NFT music royalty ROI (return)?

BAND is dedicated to giving everyone access to the music industry beginning with the secret world of music royalty acquisition. The intent is to make fans and music creatives collaborators in each others success. By teaching fans how their favorite musicians, songwriters, producers, etc. make a living we hope to  establish a system where BAND Royalty and the NFT exchange www.BANDNFTs.com are the first place performers, songwriters, producers, indie labels etc. turn to start and/or expand their careers. 

BAND is connecting artists and their fans in a way that’s never been done before, using music royalties as a way to issue governance tokens and to build a foundation for the project without being 100% crypto based. 

In the music business royalties are traded like baseball cards. So to kick off the new music platform, BAND was able to acquire a performance royalty catalog of top songs, sung by multi-platinum artists worldwide and we are in the process of acquiring more.

The BAND catalog that we own leverages a performance music catalog featuring tracks performed from some of the biggest names in music, including Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Cher, will.i.am, Timbaland, Missy Elliott & Rihanna. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH BAND ROYALTY, implied or explicitly, nor their record labels or other rights holders. At BAND we just collect on the performance royalties from the songs they sang... and that’s the awesome part! We buy music royalties, in various forms: publishing right, music masters, mechanical rights, performance royalties, producer royalties, just like baseball cards. Then we use this income to build in longevity for the project.

Even if you never stake your NFTs to earn governance tokens, we have created incredible collectible music 3D artwork, with a limited-edition of only 15 pieces of art, spread across 8 rarity levels, with only 3000 NFTs in the entire Series 1 BAND NFTs. So even if you are just a HODLer you can join the Music Mogul Club and gain perks. Go to the BAND NFT Shop marketplace now to get your 1st, 2nd, or 15th BAND NFTs. 

Click the other menu items to the left to learn what is a BAND NFTs.

At the outset there will be 3 Types of BAND Royalty Music Pools available solely for those that buy a BAND Royalty NFT. The goal of the staking is to provide a utility to our art NFTs so that holders do not have to rely solely on appreciation to gain value from their NFTs, but you can actually earn governance tokens that reflect the success of the income generated in each pool: 

1. Publishing
2. Mechanical / Public performance
3. Synchronization

HODLing any of BAND Royalty NFTs makes you eligible for the Music Mogul Club. Only owners of a BAND NFT are able to access the original 3 music royalty pools by meeting all requirements to stake a BAND NFT for various periods of time (90 days to 5 years) into one or more of the pools. Longer stakers mine more governance tokens. 

Simply owning a BAND NFT does not automatically grant you access to these top-tier music artist royalty pools, nor any music royalty rights transferred or shared to BAND NFT buyers. The only way to access governance tokens is to put one of your BAND NFTs into one these music royalty pools and activating the staking of your BAND NFTs. Staking does not equal ownership of the royalties. It simply provides access to the governance tokens available to be mined in the 3 staking pools.

As BAND continues to expand its music royalties library collection, this grows the BAND royalty income stream with more top tier tracks and artists added to the collection, while the supply of BAND NFTs remains capped at only 3,000 for Series 1, and 12,000 for all 4 limited series, along with a limited supply of 6 million governance tokens.

BAND NFTs are on the Ethereum blockchain, available on our NFT shop. 

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. NFTs are cryptographically secure digital assets, distinct from "normal" cryptocurrencies that are fungible. Fungibility means interchangeable and  a term used in banking to refer to currencies. Fungible "tokens" retain their same value inside their own network. Any currency token unit that denominates value carries exactly the same value with nothing unique about the token. The real utility of currency tokens is how easily they can each be swapped and exchanged, and even broken apart into smaller units of further equal value. Dollars, pesos, bitcoin and ETH are great examples of fungible tokens. You don't care about any specific dollar note (or digit), each dollar the same as any other dollar. That is how a fungible token works.

What is non-fungible? Artwork has always carried value as a non-fungible item, because each piece was non-divisible, unique (scarcity) and some very prestigious, which is what can gave it value. Then you have limited edition prints by an artist who only signed 100 copies. People trusted there were only ever going to be 100 prints, because they trusted brand name of that artist. The same can be said for baseball cards. There were limited print sets of certain series of cards, with some having fewer prints than others. As the cards or prints got older, some were lost or destroyed, further adding to their rarity and collectability.

Cryptographers tried for over 40 years at the near impossible task of inventing a non-confiscatable, non-hackable, non-counterfitable, non-duplicatable fully fungible digital token, which was not realized until Satoshi's 2009 invention of Bitcoin as the first truly decentralized, unstoppable, cryptographically secure fungible digital asset arrived.

With the advent of blockchain technology, it was clear there were only ever going to be two types of tokenized digital assets needed, fungible tokens and non-fungible tokens. Pioneering blockchain tech invented the very first NFT in 2014. But NFTs didn't gain popularity until the launch of Crypto Kitties in December 2017. And not until 2021 would NFTs gain mass popularity with the record smashing digital artwork NFT sales of Beeple and sports NBA TopShot NFTs). Over half a billion has been spent on NFTs since December 2017. BAND NFTs are here.

So far we have seen NFT technology mainly used for what some would consider “the fun stuff.” Art has dominated the NFT space, climaxing with the artist Beeple selling a digital art piece for a record $69 million. For many this sale validated the legitimacy of NFTs as a new asset class. While at the same time Bob Dylan sold his entire music catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group for $300 million dollars. Something is happening in both the digital world and the music world, where intellectual property is gaining value, while at the same time increasing the wealth divide.

Following both of these events, the founders of BAND Royalty wanted to do something truly innovative within the NFT sector, taking an established industry, music royalties, and re-imagine how they could be designed using ART NFTs and the blockchain. At BAND Royalty we combined art & music, dedicating both time and resources, to make a unique ART NFT that also had DeFi utility by tapping into music royalties, as a soft landing for the crypto markets volatility. By acquiring performance music royalty rights with some of the music industry’s biggest stars actually performing the music, BAND has brought a one of a kind DeFi experience to allow limited edition art NFTs to be staked against song royalty ownership. This has not been done before. 

Almost no other NFT in the entire space carries with it the ability to generate a revenue from real world assets. BAND Royalty's first ever NFT collection "Every time it's played", offers such a unique opportunity in the world of NFTs as to actually be in it’s own class. An NFT with full utility. Once you acquire one of our BAND NFTs the relationship doesn’t end there, you become part of the Music Mogul Club (MMC) which by itself will give various perks and opportunities that only BAND NFT holders can access. You can see the BAND NFTs for sale here.

So what does this mean? Whenever a song or album is released, a number of individuals and labels hold rights to the royalties that a particular song or album earns. If a Justin Timberlake song is used in a commercial during the Super Bowl, everyone who holds rights to that song will split the royalties earned.

The rights that BAND Royalty owns are the songwriter’s ‘writer rights.’ This is very important because it opens the BAND Royalty catalog to royalties whenever a song is played or performed, even if it is not performed by the specific artist who made the song famous. Every time they're played, royalty revenue is generated, and this becomes available to those who are holding and staking their Band Royalty NFTs.

We've made it simple to buy a BAND Royalty NFT at our own new custom NFT shop to help you make your selection from the 15 unique pieces of BAND NFT artwork, across 8 different rarity levels.

You simple go to the BAND Royalty NFT Marketplace here.

You visit that link above using a Web 3 browser (Chrome, Firefox or Brave), that is able to instantly connect to an Ethereum compatible wallet (Metamask or Trust Wallet). 

Band Royalty NFTs start at the Vinyl Album level, at 1 ETH each.

We recommend you first make sure you have set up your free digital cryptocurrency Ethereum wallet in Metamask (or Trust). This takes just 5 minutes, or less to setup your ETH wallet.

Watch this step by step video on how to buy a BAND Royalty NFT.

The way you purchase a BAND Royalty NFT is with Ethereum.

1 ETH gets you one BAND Vinyl NFT from the BAND NFT Shop.

So to get your own BAND Royalty NFT, you need minimum 1 ETH.

With your ETH you connect to our BAND NFT Shop with a Metamask wallet (or Trust Wallet) compatible browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave).

The simplest way to get some ETH, is from a major cryptocurrency exchange, like Binance, Coinbase or Kraken.

Once you've bought your ETH from an exchange you transfer it to your own private Metamask wallet. For the steps, see our step by step video. 

While a lot of DeFi projects tout crazy returns because they are not attached to real world assets, here at BAND Royalty we can’t and won’t. The DeFi component is being offered as a utility to support the art NFTs. We want to make it very clear, the most important aspect of this project are the limited edition art NFTs, only 3000 BAND Royalty NFTs are being made in each of the four series, for a total of 12,000 NFTs. That’s it. 

Between the activity in the secondary market place for our NFTs and the variable stream of income from our royalties, it is not possible for us to calculate an exact return from the BAND Royalty music staking pools for every individual that owns a BAND NFT. That’s 100% your job to assess, doing your own research (DYOR). If it makes sense to you to be in the pool, stake in the pool, if it makes sense to put the NFTs on the secondary market, put them on secondary market. This is crypto, you are always responsible for your decisions. We are here providing an alternative that the majority of NFTs projects don’t have at this time.

BAND Royalty set out to do something unique. Unlike nearly any other NFT in the market, there is a real world asset (music royalty catalogs) that can have their revenues accessible to BAND NFT stakers.

We realize not all BAND Royalty holders will stake. Many will want to hold. Others will want to see if they can trade their NFTs for potential price appreciation due to the strictly limited supply of the BAND NFTs (only 3000 NFTs in Series 1 available). This caps out at 4 series, with 12,000 maximum BAND NFTs ever available.

50% of the royalty payments received from industry royalty collection firms (BMI, ASCAP, etc.) gets paid out on a schedule throughout the year to those who have staked their BAND NFTs.

• The 3 royalty pools collect a different amount of royalties.
• Each song in the catalog is played a different number of times.
• The number of NFT stakers is different for each pool.
• Length of time staked, longer earns more (90 days to 5 years).

All of this information will be made transparent to you. By now you can see, based upon all of the above variables, plus others not even mentioned, why it is not possible to calculate a specific ROI return on BAND NFTs, you have to do that on your own and determine what’s right for you.

The core value is, a strictly limited supply of beautifully rendered 3D BAND NFTs (only ever 12,000), with limited number of those actually staking, earning on an ever expanding music royalty catalog collection.

A growing income from more songs in the catalog, on a fixed supply of NFTs. Think about that. Check out the 15 unique BAND NFTs for sale.