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Playtunes · Music
Music streaming that pays by the minute.
Every other platform pays artists a tenth of a cent per stream. Playtunes sells time, not streams — and splits that revenue by the minute each song is actually listened to, with the receipts to prove it.
The signal
Sound becomes a verified record — every minute a receipt.
Time-based plan
One pool. Music, film, radar — all drawn from the same clock.
The model
You buy minutes. Artists get paid by the minute.
Pick a plan — hourly, daily, monthly, or ValueCard unlimited. Every second you listen is timestamped, attributed, and settled to the artist, label, and songwriter on a weekly ledger. No dark pool. No pro-rata fog. If you listened to it, they earned from it.
- Per-minute settlement — not per-stream, not per-skip
- Session persistence with heartbeat + sendBeacon so offline time still counts
- One pool across Music, Film, TV, and Radar on the unified-quota plan
Family networks
One plan. Your whole household. No dummy accounts.
In most African households, one data plan feeds six phones. Playtunes was built for that reality: a single subscription covers a named network of family members, each with their own taste profile, their own history, their own lyric-trained voice. Parents see what their kids are playing. Kids never share a password.
6
Members per network
∞
Minutes on ValueCard
1
Invoice
Shared, not split
Five members, one pool — each with their own taste.
Lyric intelligence
AI drafts. Community corrects. Voice searches. Brain keeps score.
Lyrics that know the song
Sing a line. Find the song. Read along in the right language.
Playtunes ships a lyric intelligence engine that drafts transcripts with AI, accepts community corrections, and learns from every voice query. Hum the chorus and it finds the track. Read Twi, Ga, Ewe, or English — the timing is the same.
- Gemini drafts, our Brain AI graduates the best phrasings
- Voice search trained on West-African accents first
- Community edits tracked, credited, and weighted by ValueCard trust
Royalties
The money moves on Friday. Every Friday.
Playtunes settles to your GlueArrow Wallet on a weekly cycle. Not quarterly. Not when a CMO remembers. The ledger is public at track level — you can see exactly how many minutes turned into how many cedis, with split sheets attached to every payout.
- ISRC, ISWC, UPC, and CWR 2.1 export built in
- 5-source enrichment: AudD, iTunes, Deezer, MusicBrainz, CoverArt
- Airplay + streaming in one statement — same artist, same wallet
Weekly settlement
Stations in. Listeners in. Artists out — on the same ledger.
For artists
Upload once. Live everywhere GlueArrow reaches.
The moment you submit to Playtunes, your song is eligible for radio detection on every SIRECORD-monitored station, eligible for SmartPlay venues, eligible for Cinova sync, and tied to your WikiGlue profile. One submission, the whole ecosystem.
Discovery
Echoeboard charts
Minutes on Playtunes feed the global chart engine — 101 chart types, 6 continents.
Identity
WikiGlue profile
When your threshold hits, your verified profile auto-builds with ShadowCount + ValueCard proof.
Blanket licence
One rate per station. Music plays. Everyone gets paid.
For stations
A blanket licence that actually reaches artists.
Stations on GlueArrow pay a monthly licence. SIRECORD hardware detects what was played. Playtunes + Echoeboard settle the money back to artists automatically. Regulators get a read-only dashboard. The CMO model, replaced with evidence.
From the newsroom
What has shipped on Playtunes.
3 min
Airplay is evidence.
The first artist on the GlueArrow network to receive a verified airplay statement, and what that statement actually contains.
Read the note
4 min
The licensing rail — stations pay us, we pay the artists.
A new settlement rail that replaces the broken CMO model. Stations pay one GlueArrow music licence, artists are paid through the WikiGlue wallet, and regulators watch the same ledger for free.
Read the note
5 min
How a play on the air becomes money in your wallet.
The trail from a broadcast — on radio, on television, on any connected medium — to a payout, explained without the technical internals, because the trail is what matters. In the first rollout markets, the default rail is mobile money; other markets use their local equivalent.
Read the note
Start listening. Start earning.
Playtunes is live on the web, on GlueArrow App, on SmartPlay, and in every SIRECORD-enabled venue. One account, one wallet, one ledger.