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Fans of Jon Bellion will soon get the chance to invest in a new release from Grammy-nominated artist that features Swae Lee out on Friday through South Korean music investment platform Musicow.

The single, “Two Car Garage,” is the first song and video released as part of Musicow’s FANDOM, a series of songs commissioned by Musicow, performed by well-known artists and distributed by Roc Nation. In the coming months, U.S.-based fans who have accounts on Musicow’s website will be able to buy royalty shares in “Two Car Garage” for a price expected to be between $20-$50 that will give them a fractional right to future royalties earned by the song, pending approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company, which also offers royalty share investments in what it calls early stage songs from emerging artists, says it is trying to make fans feel invested in a partnership with the music they love.

“We’re focused on the relationship between the artist and the fan and creating a way in which they are true partners,” says Marcus Sanchez, Musicow’s Los Angeles-based CEO of IP. “By allowing fans to get involved with the artist or song from the early stage they will become a different kind of super fan because they are promoting records that they own.”

Founded in South Korea in 2016, Musicow’s roughly 1 million Korean users have earned the company unicorn status there. Musicow expanded to the United States roughly three years ago, and issued its first SEC registered offering in 2024. The 382 royalty shares tied to the masters for Kelly Clarkson’s 2011 single “Mr. Know It All,” went for $20 each and sold out in two months, raising around $7,600, according to Korean media reports.

Investors are expected to begin earning royalty dividends in the first half of 2026, said Sanchez. Still in start-up mode, Musicow U.S. does not have secondary marketplace where investors can sell or trade royalty shares bought on its platform yet.

While Musicow’s core model is similar to royalty investment platforms like Jukebox, FANDOM is a first for a royalty trading platform. Rather than acquiring music IP or inking deals with artists to offer their IP on the platform, Sanchez says they worked with songwriters for six months to create songs they then pitched to stars like Bellion. Musicow and its investors, including Roc Nation, own a fraction of the master recording to the FANDOM songs, which they say makes them vested stakeholders alongside the fans.

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Bellion, a veteran songwriter-producer, who released the album Father Figure last July, described Musicow and Roc Nation’s invitation to collaborate on “Two Car Garage” as “almost too good to be true.”

“Musicow and Roc Nation really gave me complete freedom and a budget because they believe in this new song investment concept,” Bellion said in a statement. “I’m down to help put a song’s value more in the fans hands.”

Musicow CEO Woo Rhee says they expect to roll out other FANDOM songs with cross-cultural collaborations between U.S. and K-pop stars in the coming months.

“K-pop has shown the world the true power of fandom – communities that go beyond streaming and social engagement to become part of the story itself,” Rhee said in a statement. “With FANDOM, we’re … giving fans the chance to actually share in the success they help create.”

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