Good music.
Better data.
Greater potential.

We work with rights holders who own or manage catalogues of musical assets: record labels, publishers, music estates and their lawyers, and catalogue investors. If you hold rights that earn royalties, we make sure the data behind them is clean, verified, and collecting everything it should. Independent artists are served by our sister platform, VERA Music, at veramusic.ai.

We check every release in your catalogue against the registrations, identifiers, and databases that route royalties: ISRC and ISWC codes, writer and performer splits, PRO and mechanical society registrations, neighbouring rights, and platform-level metadata. You receive a clear report of what is broken, what it is costing, and what fixing it is worth. The starting point is the free Catalog Assessment.

Broken metadata suppresses both income and asset value. Clean, verified data improves collection rates, reduces disputes with societies and distributors, speeds up platform onboarding, and makes revenue provable to a buyer or valuer. The result is an asset worth materially more. We show you the uplift for your specific catalogue in the audit rather than quoting a generic figure.

Yes. Estates frequently inherit catalogues with unverified metadata, lapsed society memberships, and royalties accruing to no one. We audit the catalogue, transfer and correct registrations, and put ongoing administration in place so the estate's beneficiaries receive what the asset actually earns. For lawyers and executors this is a duty-of-care question as much as a commercial one.

Yes. Before or after a deal we quantify registration coverage, metadata health, and uncollected royalties across the target catalogue, the gaps a data room will not show you. Buyers use the audit to price risk and negotiate; sellers use a cleaned, verified catalogue to defend valuation. Start with the free Catalog Assessment and tell us about the transaction.

Publishing administration and digital distribution are commission based: we retain 15% of collected royalties, so we only earn when you earn. Metadata administration is priced on application, scoped to the size and state of your catalogue. The free Catalog Assessment is the fastest way to get a specific answer for your situation.

Incorrect or missing metadata is one of the most common reasons royalties go unpaid. If your tracks are not correctly identified with ISRC codes, writer splits, and label information, collection societies and platforms cannot route your money to you. We make sure every release is unambiguously attributed.

Publishing administration is delivered through CGM's partnership with SESAC, a major performing rights organisation. CGM prepares and submits your catalog metadata; SESAC registers your works with collection societies including PRS, ASCAP, SOCAN, APRA, and international equivalents. CGM then actively pursues royalty collection across performance, mechanical, synchronisation, and digital licensing channels. Most rights holders leave substantial money uncollected. We recover it.

Yes. Absolute ownership remains with you. We administer your rights on your behalf. We never acquire a share of your copyright or publishing. This is a service relationship, not a record deal. For publishing administration and digital distribution, CGM retains 15% of collected royalties - CGM only earns when you earn. Metadata Administration is a separate service priced on application. In all cases, 100% of copyright and creative rights remain yours.

Distribution is logistics - getting a catalogue onto platforms. Administration is everything that happens after delivery: registering the works with collection societies, issuing identifier codes, syncing metadata, and collecting the royalties that those registrations generate. A distributor handles delivery. They do not handle administration. That's a completely separate discipline.

No. Code Group Music is a music label services provider, not a record label. We do not sign artists, acquire masters, or take any ownership stake in your music. We provide the administrative and rights management services that a label would normally provide internally - publishing administration, digital distribution, and metadata management - as a service you commission. You retain 100% of your rights.

Not automatically. ISRC codes assigned by a distributor are often registered under the distributor's account, not the rights holder's. If the catalogue moves away from that distributor, the codes may not move with it - which means the streaming history and royalty matching history goes too. This is a standard due diligence check in any catalogue transaction. CGM issues ISRC codes that are registered to the catalogue owner from day one.

Yes, within limits. Collection societies hold unclaimed royalties for a period - typically 3 years before they are redistributed. We can audit the catalogue, identify gaps in its historical registrations, and file retrospective claims where the window is still open. How much is recoverable depends on catalogue size and how long the registration gaps have existed.

After approximately 3 years, most collection societies redistribute unclaimed royalties to their registered members - which means other rights holders receive money that should have been yours. This is why registration timing matters. Every month your works are unregistered is a month the clock is running on potential claims you can no longer make.

The best starting point is our free Catalog Assessment above. Fill it in (it takes under five minutes) and a member of our team will review your situation personally and reach back with honest, specific recommendations. No obligation.