Distribution · Publishing · Neighboring Rights

Protect Your Rights.
Maximize Your Catalog.

Creation Music Group combines global distribution, publishing administration, neighboring-rights collections, catalog auditing, and proprietary catalog-intelligence technology to help rights holders identify discrepancies, correct registrations, and unlock missing revenue.

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Global
Music-Rights Operations
Masters
Distribution · YouTube · SoundExchange
Publishing
PROs · The MLC · Int’l Societies
iCatalogIQ
Proprietary Catalog Intelligence

Catalog data analyzed across leading platforms and music-rights systems

Spotify Apple Music YouTube Amazon Music Deezer TIDAL The MLC ASCAP BMI SESAC SoundExchange Spotify Apple Music YouTube Amazon Music Deezer TIDAL The MLC ASCAP BMI SESAC SoundExchange

Platform and organization names are referenced for data-analysis context only and do not imply endorsement or partnership.

Creation Music Group / 01 Distribution

Your music, everywhere it earns.

Global digital distribution built on clean data: releases delivered to the major platforms with consistent metadata, and monitored for structure and availability from day one.

  • Worldwide DSP deliveryReleases live on the platforms that matter, in every territory.
  • Release & metadata managementISRCs, credits, and catalog structure kept clean and consistent.
  • YouTube Content ID & monetizationClaims administered and channel revenue captured.
  • Catalog-structure integrityDuplicates and conflicting uploads caught before they split streams.
30,000+tracks under distribution
Creation Music Group / 02 Publishing & Collections

Every work registered. Every royalty claimed.

Publishing administration and collections across every society that owes your songs money — compositions and recordings, at home and internationally.

  • PRO & MLC registration and maintenanceWorks registered, matched, and kept current across societies.
  • Ownership, splits & conflict resolutionShares documented and disputes resolved before they freeze royalties.
  • Neighboring rightsSoundExchange registration, claims, and recording-performance royalties.
  • International collections & royalty recoveryTerritories followed through; unclaimed and misdirected royalties pursued.
15,000+publishing works managed
Creation Music Group / 03 Neighboring Rights

The royalty stream most catalogs never collect.

Recording-performance royalties — earned by your masters on digital radio and public-performance platforms. Tied to your recordings, collected separately from distribution, and left unclaimed by many catalogs.

  • SoundExchange registration & claimsRecordings registered and claims filed for the royalties your masters earn.
  • Rights-owner & featured-artist data integrityOwnership and artist data kept accurate so payments route to you.
  • Collections follow-through & reconciliationClaims tracked to payment — not just filed and forgotten.
  • SoundExchange catalog audits via iCatalogIQRegistered owners and artist data verified against your actual catalog.
Masters-sideroyalties, beyond distribution
The Problem

Music revenue is lost when rights data does not match.

Across platforms, PROs, The MLC, SoundExchange, and international societies, the same song can exist with different owners, identifiers, and splits. Every mismatch is a place where royalties can go unpaid — often for years.

A catalog can be duplicated, misregistered, or transferred across platforms without the owner ever knowing — dividing streams, splitting royalties, and leaking revenue across systems that never reconcile themselves.
Incomplete registrations

Works never registered — or only partially registered — with PROs, The MLC, or societies.

Ownership conflicts

Competing or overlapping claims that freeze royalties until they are resolved.

Duplicate works

The same composition registered multiple times, fragmenting matching and payment.

Missing identifiers

Absent or incorrect ISRCs, ISWCs, and IPI numbers that break royalty matching.

Inconsistent metadata

Titles, writers, and artists that differ across platforms and databases.

Unmatched recordings

Recordings earning royalties that never connect to the underlying composition.

Catalog transfers

Control changes and re-deliveries that happen without the owner's visibility.

Unclaimed royalties

Accrued balances sitting in pending and unmatched pools, waiting to expire.

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iCatalogIQ / 03 Audits & Catalog Intelligence

Then we go deep: audits, powered by iCatalogIQ.

iCatalogIQ is Creation Music Group's proprietary rights-intelligence platform — five audit and monitoring modules that analyze catalog data across platforms, PROs, The MLC, and SoundExchange to surface what manual reviews miss. Every catalog we distribute or administer runs through it, and every audit engagement starts here.

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Master Audit

Compare recording availability, ISRCs, metadata, and catalog presence across major digital platforms.

What this audit checks
  • Artist-wide catalog scan across streaming platforms
  • Duplicate releases & catalog-structure conflicts
  • ISRC, metadata & availability comparison by platform
  • Instant discography preview from a single search
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Publishing Audit

Cross-reference PRO, MLC, ownership, publishing, and composition data to identify missing registrations and conflicts.

What this audit checks
  • Imports catalog data from ASCAP, BMI & SESAC exports
  • Cross-references works with MLC records
  • Songs on DSPs missing from PRO catalogs — and vice versa
  • MLC recording-match & duplicate-work detection
  • Flags works not properly claimed or attributed
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SoundExchange Audit

Analyze registered sound-recording owners and featured-artist data for discrepancies and missing claims.

What this audit checks
  • Registered sound-recording owner analysis
  • Featured-artist data verification
  • Missing & discrepant claims detection
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Catalog Transfer Monitor

Track catalog-control changes and identify potentially unauthorized or unexpected transfers before they become losses.

What this monitor tracks
  • Baseline of catalog control, release by release
  • Distributor & label change detection
  • Alerts on unexpected or unauthorized transfers
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Live Catalog Monitor

Continuously monitor music-catalog data for new conflicts, availability changes, registration issues, and revenue leakage.

What this monitor tracks
  • Continuous scans for new conflicts & registration issues
  • Availability changes across platforms & territories
  • Revenue-leakage signals routed to our team
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Audit to resolution, under one roof. Issues uncovered by iCatalogIQ don't end up in a PDF you have to act on alone — Creation Music Group's team can correct registrations, resolve conflicts, and pursue recovery on your behalf.

Creation Music Group / Client Engagements Full Catalog Audits

A comprehensive audit, done together.

A full audit is a working engagement, not a report dropped in your inbox. We work side by side with you and your team: gather every statement and export, run the entire catalog through iCatalogIQ, and review the findings together — masters, publishing, neighboring rights, and YouTube, end to end.

  • Every royalty stream in scopeDistribution, publishing, SoundExchange, and YouTube reviewed as one catalog.
  • Statements reconciled against realityWhat was reported, checked against what platforms and societies actually show.
  • Findings you can act onA prioritized report with every discrepancy documented and a resolution path.
  • Resolution includedOur team corrects registrations, files claims, and pursues recovery with you.
Who we do this for
Full-audit engagements completed for established artists, labels, and catalogs across Latin & independent music. Client references available on request — engagements are confidential.
How It Works

From connected catalog to protected revenue.

  1. Connect

    Share your catalog data — distribution exports, PRO and MLC records, or a simple track list.

  2. Analyze

    iCatalogIQ cross-references your catalog across platforms and rights databases.

  3. Identify

    Discrepancies, conflicts, duplicates, and missing registrations are surfaced and prioritized.

  4. Resolve

    Our operations team corrects registrations, resolves conflicts, and pursues recovery.

  5. Monitor

    Live monitoring watches your catalog for new issues, transfers, and availability changes.

Who We Serve

Built for everyone with rights on the line.

Independent Artists

Own your masters and your data. Know exactly where your music stands on every platform.

Record Labels

Keep large release schedules clean across platforms — and catch duplicates before they split streams.

Publishers & Songwriters

Verify every work is registered, matched, and paying — at every society that owes you.

Managers

Give your roster institutional-grade rights oversight without building an in-house data team.

Entertainment Attorneys

Ground negotiations, disputes, and due diligence in verified catalog data — not assumptions.

Catalog Owners

Protect long-term catalog value with continuous monitoring and clean, defensible rights data.

Catalog Investors & Acquirers

Audit before you buy. Verify what a catalog actually contains, controls, and collects.

Why Creation Music Group

Proprietary technology. Real industry experience.

Creation Music Group applies hands-on experience in publishing administration, distribution, royalty recovery, rights-data reconciliation, catalog monitoring, and international collections — working directly with major music platforms, PROs, The MLC, SoundExchange, and international collection channels.

iCatalogIQ wasn't built in a lab. It was created from actual music-rights operational needs — the same audits, reconciliations, and recoveries our team performs for real catalogs every day.

Operational experience across major platforms, PROs, The MLC, and SoundExchange Technology shaped by daily audit and recovery work — not theory One team from detection to resolution to ongoing monitoring
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Representative Workflows

How catalogs get fixed in practice.

Anonymized, representative workflows illustrating how our audit-to-resolution process operates. Individual outcomes vary by catalog.

Publishing Audit

Publishing ownership reconciliation

A songwriter catalog showed conflicting ownership shares between PRO and MLC records, holding royalties in pending status.

01 Cross-referenced PRO, MLC, and split documentation 02 Identified works with conflicting or partial claims 03 Corrected registrations and re-established matching
Master Audit

Missing DSP catalog detection

An independent label's releases were live on some platforms but missing or mismatched on others — quietly capping streaming reach.

01 Compared catalog presence across major platforms 02 Flagged missing releases and metadata gaps by ISRC 03 Coordinated redelivery and metadata correction
Publishing Audit

Duplicate work identification

The same compositions were registered multiple times under different titles and identifiers, fragmenting royalty matching.

01 Detected duplicate registrations across databases 02 Mapped variants to a single canonical work record 03 Requested merges and monitored resolution
Transfer Monitor

Catalog transfer monitoring

A catalog owner needed visibility into control changes after a distribution move — including releases that didn't migrate as expected.

01 Established baseline of catalog control by release 02 Monitored for unexpected distributor or label changes 03 Alerted owner and documented each transfer event
SoundExchange Audit

SoundExchange registration review

Sound-recording owner and featured-artist data didn't align with the actual rights holders across parts of a catalog.

01 Audited registered owner and artist data by recording 02 Identified discrepancies and unregistered recordings 03 Prepared corrections and claim submissions
Live Monitor

Continuous catalog protection

After an initial cleanup, a rights holder moved to ongoing monitoring to catch new conflicts and availability changes early.

01 Enrolled catalog in continuous monitoring 02 Surfaced new issues as alerts, not surprises 03 Routed items to the operations team for resolution
Our Philosophy

Trust, but verify.

The music industry functions on a dangerous word: trust. In many cases, that trust is justified. But trust by itself is not evidence.

Verification is not hostility. It is a control — it protects both parties. When the information is correct, verification confirms the work and strengthens the relationship. When it is incorrect, it identifies the discrepancy while there is still time to correct it.

Not every discrepancy is fraud. But every unverified discrepancy can still cost money. That is why we don't just run audits — we audit the auditor: the statements, the registrations, the matching, and the metadata that everyone else takes on faith.

The objective is not to eliminate trust.
The objective is to make trust accountable.

Adapted from Trust, But Verify — the forthcoming book by our founder on royalty verification in the modern music business.

What verification finds in the real world — documented in client audits

Duplicate catalogs on major platforms

The same recordings live twice through different distributors — dividing streams and revenue without the owner knowing.

Found by Master Audit

Works never registered at The MLC

Compositions earning streams with royalties accruing in unmatched pools — recoverable, but only while the window is open.

Found by Publishing Audit

YouTube Content ID conflicts

Ownership conflicts silently holding monetization on claimed videos until they are documented and released.

Found by catalog monitoring

SoundExchange registration gaps

Recordings earning performance royalties with missing or mismatched rights-owner and featured-artist data.

Found by SoundExchange Audit
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