Every year, more than a hundred million dollars in royalties owed to songwriters and music publishers goes uncollected. Not because the money wasn't earned, but because the data behind it is incomplete, mismatched, duplicated or missing. The volume of this data has outgrown the tools publishing teams have to handle it.
Royalties that remain uncollected are eventually distributed by market share. That means each publisher receives a share based on its size, rather than on what its works actually earned. In the United States, the first of these distributions is planned for 2027. Market share distributions are a reasonable fallback, but we believe the money should reach the songwriters and publishers it belongs to.