Your statements show what you were paid. We find out what you were owed.
We go through your royalty statements line by line against your contract, free. If money is owed, we go after it, and we are paid only from what comes back.
Check my catalogue
We read your contract
The contract sets your rates, the deductions your label or publisher may take, and how long you have to dispute a statement. We read it first.
We do the sums
We go through every line of every statement you send and work out what it should have paid you. We also check you received your full share of each song.
We tell you
If money is owed, we show you where. If there is nothing worth going after, we say so.
We buy catalogues ourselves, and we go through their statements this way before we make an offer. You get the same work on yours.
$12.7 million
Sony Music agreed to pay that in a 2020 settlement with artists who said its companies abroad had taken a cut of their foreign streaming income before paying them. Sony also agreed to raise their streaming royalties by 36% from then on.
A deduction like that comes off every statement until someone challenges it. It is worth knowing what comes off yours.
We go after it
If money is owed, we work together with established audit partners on the formal audit, through to the settlement.
Nothing to pay
Money never goes from you to us. We are paid from what comes back.
No sale needed
You can keep your publisher, your label and whoever administers your catalogue today.
Do I have the right to audit?
Most record and publishing contracts include one. We read the clause for you when we read the rest of the contract.
You buy catalogues. Do I have to sell you anything?
No. An audit does not commit you to a sale. If you ever want to talk about selling, we would be glad to.
What happens after I fill in the form?
We get back to you shortly and ask for your statements and the contract they are paid under. We sign an NDA first if you want one.
Our guide to royalty audits covers the public cases, where statements lose money and how far back a claim can reach.
Every statement has a deadline.
Many contracts make a statement final unless you object to it within a set period. In the published contracts we have seen, that period runs from one to four years. Each period runs from its own statement's date, so your oldest statements go out of reach first, one at a time.
Were you paid everything you were owed?
Tell us about the catalogue and the contract, and we'll get back to you shortly.