The E-Book
If It Doesn’t Match, It Can’t Pay
Your music is already earning. The money just can’t find you. This is the playbook for fixing the paperwork that’s holding it up — written so you can run it yourself.
$39
Interactive e-book · instant access · 8 chapters with a built-in match check · opens in any browser, yours to keep
It’s the same process we run in our $497 Royalty Match Audit. This is the version you run yourself.
What’s Inside
Eight Chapters, One Job: Get the Paperwork to Agree
No theory. The systems that have to line up, the codes that identify your song, and the exact order to fix them in — with a worked example running through the whole book.
The Black Box
Where your money goes when it can’t find you. What “matching” actually means, where unmatched money sits, and why it eventually gets paid to somebody else.
The Five Systems That Must Agree
Your distributor, your PRO, SoundExchange, The MLC and publisher admin. What each one pays, and what happens when any two of them disagree about your song.
ISRC vs ISWC vs UPC
The three codes people mix up constantly — which identifies the recording, the composition and the release, and how one wrong character stops payment cold.
Alternate Titles, Done Right
Why one song gets reported under four different names, how to register the real ones so they all pay, and the guardrail that keeps this legitimate.
Writer Splits & IPI Numbers
One person, one number. How a duplicate IPI quietly cuts your money in half, how to spot it in your own registrations, and how to get the two merged.
The Self-Audit & The Fixes
Pull everything into one place, lay your reports against your registrations, and work the mismatches in the right order — duplicates first, then codes, then splits.
Who It’s For
Independent artists who own their own music and have never checked whether the paperwork behind it lines up. It hits hardest if you’ve released through more than one distributor, changed a song’s title along the way, or you’re getting paid less than your play counts say you should be.
Rather hand it to us? We run the whole match for you and hand back a Match Report. The $497 Royalty Match Audit →