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Music Data Intelligence
Market sizing, commercial consequence, and the money on the table.
The Chief Executive's Office publishes the arithmetic. Income pools sized in currency rather than rhetoric, recoveries with a figure and a timescale attached, and the diligence work that changes a valuation before a deal closes.
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No. 012An 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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