Sound Recording Performance Royalties for "Wobble" by V.I.C

This asset is the Sound Recording Performance royalties for "Wobble," the 4x-platinum hit by V.I.C. SoundExchange collects and pays them. It is the U.S. group that gathers royalties when a recording plays on digital radio and streaming, then pays the recording's owners and performers. "Wobble" earns every time it plays on Pandora, SiriusXM, iHeart, or Music Choice. The rate is set by law, not by private deal, so the income does not rest on any single contract. Almost all of it comes from this one song, and that song is not a hit cooling off. It is a party anthem in permanent rotation, still earning steadily nearly twenty years after release.

The earnings history starts with a spike. The first payment, in 3Q2023, was close to $15,000 and makes up much of the $44,186 earned since 2023. That was not a normal quarter. It was a one-time catch-up: SoundExchange's first payment to this account released royalties that had built up over years, some as far back as 2009. Take that out, and the real picture is simpler. The catalog now earns about $10,400 a year, and that recurring number, not the inflated total, is what to underwrite.

Earnings are steady. The catalog made about $10,400 in 2024 and about the same in 2025. For a song almost twenty years old, holding flat is a strong result. The mix underneath is shifting: satellite radio is up about a quarter, while streaming is down about 10%. The two balance out. When one source dips and another picks up, the income holds.

For an investor, the case is durability, not breadth. "Wobble" is 4x-platinum and still plays at weddings, cookouts, and games nearly twenty years on. Its earnings track record runs almost eighteen years, so today's income is seasoned, not propped up by anything new. Ownership lasts for the full life of the copyright, and payments now arrive monthly instead of quarterly. The trade is simple: you give up diversification and gain seasoning. This is a royalty on one of the most durable dance-floor standards in American radio, holding steady rather than fading, eighteen years in.

This catalog captures a defining stretch of late-2000s Atlanta snap and dance-rap, anchored by one of the era's most enduring party records.

V.I.C., the Ghanaian-American rapper who came up in College Park, Georgia alongside Soulja Boy and the wider Atlanta snap scene, broke through in 2008 with two singles from his debut album Beast on Warner Bros.

"Get Silly," released in February 2008 and produced by Mr. Collipark and Soulja Boy, was the chart moment. It reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 5 on Hot Rap Songs, and earned RIAA Gold certification that November.

"Wobble" followed in July 2008 and took the opposite path. Received with little fanfare at release, it became a phenomenon years later as the line dance built around it spread, finally charting in 2011 and 2012 and going on to RIAA four-times-platinum certification. Today, it carries from backyard parties to packed arenas and nationally televised events, with a renewed wave of attention arriving through TikTok.

"Twerk It," a 2012 release, rounds out the active catalog. Together, these recordings describe a catalog whose value rests less on chart peaks than on cultural permanence: songs that became part of how people gather.

Earnings Note. The 3Q-2023 distribution of approximately $14,950 was SoundExchange's first payment to this account, functioning as an onboarding catch-up that swept in royalties accrued across performance periods dating back to 2009. 

Earnings Note. Beginning with the August 2025 distribution, SoundExchange shifted this account from a quarterly to a monthly payment schedule.

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