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Streaming (DSPs)
Plays, listeners, saves, skips, retention. Artist, track, and album level.
Spotify · Apple · Amazon · Tidal · Deezer
01 / 06 Editorial - The thesis
Every major independent music data platform built in the last decade has been acquired by a label or shut down. Music Intel remains independent. We measure the infrastructure behind the music industry - streaming, social, rights, and charts - across every market where royalties are collected.
02 / 06 - The measurement layer
What we see. Everything that moves.
Some teams watch Spotify. Others watch TikTok. Others the UK charts. We watch all of it - and everything between. Twelve categories of signal, measured daily, cross-referenced against a reference universe of over two hundred million recordings. A single decision-grade view of every artist on your roster.
02
Social accounts
Audience size, engagement, post cadence, demographic mix, velocity.
TikTok · Instagram · X · Facebook · Threads
03
Video
Views, watch time, cover versions, UGC volume, sound usage on short-form.
YouTube · TikTok · Shorts · Reels
04
Playlists
Editorial placements, algorithmic reach, user playlists, followers, churn.
Editorial · algorithmic · user-curated
05
Charts
9,198 chart sources scanned daily. Position, weeks-on, debut, re-entry.
Official · radio · genre · platform
06
Geography
Where the listeners actually are. Country and city-level attribution across 105 territories.
Country · city · DMA
07
Press & editorial
News mentions, reviews, features, podcasts, interviews. Sentiment-scored.
National · trade · blog · podcast
08
Search intent
Organic interest across Google and partner search. Pre-Shazam momentum.
Google · GSC · query volume
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Website visitors Scout Alert
Identifiable industry visitors to your artist's website. Labels, broadcasters, agencies, sync houses - mapped to IP the moment they land.
IP intelligence · reverse DNS · org match
10
Rights & registrations
111K IPIs, 2.7M works indexed for ISWC lookup, 7.6M recording-to-work links.
CWR · ISRC · ISWC · IPI · BMI/ASCAP/PRS
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Radio & broadcast
Airplay across terrestrial, satellite, and streaming radio. Spin counts, rotation, DJ support.
Radio · DAB · satellite · stream-simulcast
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Live & touring
Tour announcements, venue sizes, ticket prices, box office settlement where visible.
Venues · tickets · routing · settlement
- Signal spotlight Scout Alert
When a BBC scout visits your artist's website, you know in ninety seconds.
Scout Alert maps industry IP addresses - labels, publishers, booking agencies, broadcasters, sync supervisors, festival bookers - to the artists they're watching. A lightweight pixel on your artist's site, a reverse-DNS lookup, and a push notification the moment a recognised visitor lands. One of twelve categories we measure. All of them work this hard.
i.0recordings in our reference corpus
ii.0chart sources scanned daily
iii.0IPIs in our writer / publisher index
iv.0works indexed for ISWC lookup
v.0artists in our cross-reference universe
vi.0countries with daily stream attribution
vii.0cross-references per artist, every day
Every signal. Every day. One company, independent, unacquired.
03 / 06 - Two applications
Two applications. Equal billing.
APPLICATION 01/ Musicata Pro
Know what
your roster
is doing.
Labels · Distributors · Management
Every artist in your catalogue, cross-referenced daily against 1,200 signals. Fraud flagged before it corrupts reporting. Breakouts surfaced before competitors notice. Territory intent measured, not guessed. Decisions you can defend in a meeting.
Coverage
105 markets
Refresh
daily
Signals
streaming · social · charts
Pilots
open · Q2 2026
APPLICATION 02/ Black Box Royalty Investigator
Recover what
is owed.
Filed. Documented.
Publishers · Writers · Estates
A 207-million-track reference catalogue, cross-referenced with chart, streaming, and rights data. Establish the writer, the plays, the listeners, and the gap. Produce the evidence pack. File the claim. Settle in days rather than years.
Catalogue
207M tracks
Output
evidence pack
Standard
tribunal-grade
Cases
open · Q2 2026
Both applications share Music Intel's 1,200-point cross-reference methodology. One company. Two questions.
04 / 06 - Field Notes
Field Notes.
Market · No. 012 Black Box
An estimated $561M sits unclaimed at the MLC. That is one country, one rights type.
The scale of the black box, measured in dollars rather than rhetoric. And what a single-country figure implies globally.
Read the market → Method · No. 013 Musicata Pro
Why a streaming spike in Helsinki is a question, not an answer.
Anomalies are cheap. Evidence is not. A short paper on the difference between a chart movement and a verified listening event.
Read the method → Forensic · No. 014 Black Box
Recovering £340,000 of uncollected royalties across a 2,100-title catalogue.
Six months inside a back-catalogue recovery: the writer, the gaps, and the claim that settled in ninety-one days.
Read the forensic → Method · No. 015 Musicata Pro
The anatomy of a manufactured chart week.
A coordinated bot campaign has a fingerprint in the raw data. Streaming counts are only the first layer.
Read the method → Market · No. 016 Musicata Pro
2,562 breakouts surfaced. How many were acted on?
The window between a genuine organic breakout and a commercial response is shrinking. Most artists with momentum signatures have no infrastructure to capitalise on them.
Read the market → Forensic · No. 017 Musicata Pro
The Eastern European streaming anomaly: a case study in geographic fraud.
Streaming fraud is not random. It clusters geographically and operationally. A composite case showing how a coordinated playlist network generates high play counts with zero legitimate engagement.
Read the forensic → Market · No. 019 Musicata Pro
Touring still follows streaming geography. Labels are still ignoring it.
In a significant number of markets, streaming data signals meaningful live demand that booking agents are not acting on. The gap is measurable.
Read the market → Method · No. 023 Black Box
CWR: the registration format that has been breaking royalties since 1999.
A significant percentage of CWR transactions contain errors that cause royalties to fail silently. Accepted by societies but matched to the wrong work, the wrong writer, or no work at all.
Read the method → Market · No. 024 Black Box
Neighbouring rights are the most systematically underclaimed income stream in recorded music.
UK artists performing on recordings played in Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia are owed money from three of the highest-paying neighbouring rights societies in the world. Most are not claiming it.
Read the market → Forensic · No. 025 Black Box
What a catalogue due diligence audit actually finds.
M&A diligence looks at what a catalogue has earned. It almost never looks at what it should have earned. A composite case showing the gap between acquisition model and royalty reality.
Read the forensic →