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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. Ask whose interests their numbers serve now. Music Intel remains independent. We measure streaming, social, rights, and charts across every market where royalties are collected - and we answer to no roster but yours.
02 / 06 - The measurement layer
What we see. Everything that moves.
Some teams watch Spotify. Others watch TikTok. Others the UK charts. The gaps between those views are where fraud hides, breakouts go unsigned, and royalties go unclaimed. We watch all of it - and everything between. Twelve categories of signal, measured daily against a reference universe of over two hundred million recordings. One 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
09
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
110K+ 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 your reporting. Breakouts surfaced before a rival's offer lands. Territory demand 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.
Forensic · No. 027 Black Box
Duplicate-upload royalty hijacking: criminals are no longer chasing streams. They're chasing master recordings.
Streaming fraud has moved upstream. A forensic read on duplicate-upload royalty hijacking, and why the master recording, not the stream, is the asset under attack.
Read the forensic → 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
A worked example: recovering £340,000 across a 2,100-title catalogue.
Six months inside a modelled back-catalogue recovery: the writer, the gaps, and a claim that settles 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 → 05 / 06 - The platform
A music intelligence platform built for the infrastructure layer.
Music data platform
Music Intel operates as a full-stack music data platform, aggregating streaming analytics, social engagement, chart performance, radio airplay, rights registrations, and live touring data into a single cross-referenced environment. The platform processes 1,200 data points per artist daily across 105 royalty-collecting territories, producing structured output for labels, distributors, publishers, and management companies.
Music intelligence platform
Beyond aggregation, Music Intel interprets the data. The intelligence layer identifies fraud contradictions (StreamShield), surfaces early-breakout artists (Agent Radar), maps geographic touring demand (Tour Manager), and detects royalty gaps (Black Box). The platform does not surface raw numbers - it produces verdicts that can be defended in a boardroom, a tribunal, or an investment committee.
Royalty management software
Black Box Royalty Investigator operates as forensic royalty management software, identifying unclaimed and underpaid royalties across the global collection infrastructure. The system processes CWR registrations, validates ISRC and ISWC identifiers, detects mechanical gaps, and generates tribunal-grade evidence packs for filing with collection societies worldwide. Engagement models range from fixed-fee triage to outcome-based recovery.
Streaming fraud detection
StreamShield is a machine-learning streaming fraud detection system that identifies artificial streaming activity - bot farms, manufactured listeners, and playlist manipulation - before platforms penalise artists. The system classifies fraud risk across five levels with contributing factors shown for every verdict, operating across entire catalogues with prediction summaries and a closed-loop learning architecture.
Music rights management
The platform maintains a rights index of 110,000+ IPIs, 2.7 million works indexed for ISWC lookup, and 7.6 million recording-to-work links. CWR health scoring identifies registration failures that cause royalty leakage. Evidence packs meet the documentary standards of MLC, ASCAP, BMI, PRS, PPL, GEMA, SACEM, and SOCAN.
Artist discovery and A&R intelligence
Agent Radar surfaces three types of momentum across catalogues: zone promotions (career-level advancement), velocity spikes (growth-rate acceleration), and streaming surges (extreme baseline multipliers). The system provides weeks of lead time over public-facing signals, identifying breakout artists before competing distributors or labels can make offers.