Chief Creative Office
For the Record
Narrative, investigation and the human story behind music data.
The Chief Creative Office publishes the piece that tells you what happened. Named phenomena, composite case histories, and the decisions people actually had to make - written first-hand, for artists and the people who manage them.
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No. 033From Filing Cabinets to 10 Trillion Touchpoints: The Evolution of Data in the Music Industry
A personal view from Karl Parsons
How artificial streaming puts music decisions at risk
An editorial view, checked against platform policy and a federal fraud case, on why genuine listening intent matters more than inflated headline counts.
Why identifiers and identity matching matter to royalty allocation
Names, aliases, roles, works and recordings must be connected with evidence. A plain-language guide to identity records, unmatched royalties and suspense.
Unauthorised uploads and recording identity abuse: what the public evidence establishes
Unauthorised uploads and malicious artist-profile attachments are documented. Their frequency and any direct royalty-diversion mechanism are not established by the public sources reviewed here.
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