Catalogue & Label Services · Mayfair, London

Broken metadata is suppressing the value of your catalogue.We can show you how much.

We audit, clean, and verify catalogue data for labels, estates, and investors. Clean data means better rates, faster onboarding, fewer disputes, and an asset worth materially more.

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2,400+

Catalog Titles Managed

60+

Countries Distributed

150+

DSPs & Stores Reached

98%

Client Retention

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The Gap

What your distributor doesn't do.

Your distributor:

Uploads your releases to streaming platforms
Delivers your files to 30–150+ DSPs
Collects master recording royalties (the number on your dashboard)
Issues ISRC and UPC codes (that they own, not you)

What nobody is doing (unless you have CGM):

Registering your works with global PROs (PRS, ASCAP, SOCAN, and others) for performance royalties
Registering with mechanical licensing societies (MCPS, MLC, and others) for mechanical royalties
Registering with neighbouring rights societies (PPL and international equivalents) for performer and producer shares
Issuing ISRCs in your own name, or helping you take ownership of existing codes
Creating ISNIs for your artists and writers (their global identity as creators)
Listing your catalogue on MusicBrainz and Discogs (the databases that matching systems use)
Syncing metadata across Spotify for Artists, Apple Music for Artists, Bandsintown, and Songkick
Registering worship works with CCLI (if applicable)
Checking that your data survived delivery in the correct format

Your distributor's job ends at delivery. Everything in the first column generates one type of royalty. Everything in the second generates four more. If your catalogue has only ever had a distributor, it has been collecting a fraction of what it earns, and that gap is priced into the asset.

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Catalogue Gap Calculator

How much is your catalogue leaving on the table?

Three questions, no email required. Get an indicative range of the royalties a catalogue like yours typically leaves uncollected each year.

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Who We Serve

One problem, three rooms it gets discussed in.

Broken metadata suppresses catalogue income and catalogue value. Whether you run the label, act for the estate, or price the deal, the fix is the same: audit, clean, verify.

For Record Labels

Yield from the catalogue you already own

Clean, verified metadata means better rates, faster platform onboarding, and fewer disputes with societies and distributors. We do your admin and clean your data, which gives you a return on assets you already control.

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For Estate & Rights Lawyers

A duty of care to the musical asset

Most estates hold catalogues with unverified metadata and royalties accruing to no one. Cleaning and verifying the data protects the beneficiaries and leaves the asset under management worth materially more.

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For Investors & Acquirers

Know what you are buying before you buy it

Registration coverage, metadata health, and uncollected royalties quantified, pre or post acquisition. Catalogue due diligence that surfaces the gaps a data room will not show you.

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Our Music Label Services

Three pillars. One team.

Backed by 18+ years working inside the industry, our music label services cover every layer of administrative infrastructure a label, estate, or catalogue owner needs. Metadata administration is the foundation; distribution and publishing admin compound on top of clean data. See all our music label services →

Metadata Administration

POA - scoped to your catalogue

The foundation of everything else. We audit every release in your catalogue the same way Universal Music audits theirs. Identifier codes, platform formatting, database listings, credit accuracy. If something is wrong, we find it, fix it, and keep it verified.

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Digital Distribution

15% commission

Your catalogue on 150+ platforms worldwide. But more importantly, every release delivered with correct metadata so royalties get matched properly. Distribution is logistics. We make sure the data behind the logistics is right.

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Publishing Administration

15% commission

Royalty collection across performance, mechanical, sync, and international channels. Delivered through our partnership with SESAC. 15% commission. No upfront fees. You keep 100% ownership.

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Trusted By

Labels, studios, broadcasters, and institutions we have worked with

As Seen On

Keith Kirk’s metadata expertise, independently recognised.

Let's Talk About Metadata

David Hunte

Music Metadata Expert: Save Time and Money

The Vana Room Podcast

How Bad Metadata Makes Artists Lose Royalties

Africa Music Law Show

Catalogues We Manage

The artists and writers behind the catalogues.

JORDAN G WELCH

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Spotify Apple Music

LURINE CATO

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VADE

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LOUCRETIA HORRELL

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WILL MERRELL

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THE KINGDOM CHOIR

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R2BEES

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CLAY

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HIS HOUSE

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CHEBUTTA

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ERIK GRIGGS

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And that’s just
a few of our
clients.

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Client Results

What our clients say

“I had been writing worship songs for a decade and had no idea CCLI owed me anything. CGM registered my catalog through their publisher portal and I received my first CCLI distribution within months. No other service I looked at could do that directly.”
Grace A.Worship leader and songwriter, Manchester

1 / 10

Free Tools

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Free browser-based due-diligence tools for rights holders - validate identifier codes, quantify uncollected royalties, and audit distribution coverage before you commission anything. See all 7 free tools →

Publishing

Royalty Leak Checker

Ten yes/no questions that diagnose your catalog metadata and collection setup. Get a severity rating and the exact failure points costing you royalties.

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Publishing

Music Royalty Calculator

Estimate how much royalty income you may be leaving uncollected across PRS, MCPS, PPL, and international collection sources. Annual GBP estimate, no signup.

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Metadata

ISRC Code Validator

Validate and decode any ISRC code instantly. Check format against ISO 3901 and identify every component - country code, registrant, year, and designation.

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Distribution

Distribution Coverage Checker

See which streaming platforms your current distributor covers and which you are missing - across 30+ DSPs, social stores, and emerging market platforms.

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Free Catalog Assessment

Understand your catalog's potential.

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Who We Are

Independent. London-based.

Code Group Music is a specialist music label services company dedicated entirely to independent artists and rights holders. We believe that every catalog deserves institutional-grade infrastructure, the same rigour applied to the world's largest labels, applied to yours.

We are not a major label. We are not a distributor with a dashboard and no phone number. We are a small, expert team that takes a limited number of clients and gives each one our full attention.

Code Group Music Ltd
Mayfair, London
United Kingdom

Common Questions

Everything you'd want to know, answered honestly.

We work with rights holders who own or manage catalogues of musical assets: record labels, publishers, music estates and their lawyers, and catalogue investors. We also serve independent artists and writers through a productised low-touch tier. If you hold rights that earn royalties, we make sure the data behind them is clean, verified, and collecting everything it should.

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.

We distribute to 150+ DSPs worldwide, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, and all major platforms, with rapid turnaround, high-quality metadata, and transparent monthly reporting. We also handle pre-save campaigns and playlist pitching for marquee releases.

Distribution is logistics - getting your music onto platforms. Administration is everything that happens after delivery: registering your works with collection societies, issuing identifier codes, syncing metadata, and collecting the royalties that those registrations generate. Your 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 yours. If you leave that distributor, you may not be able to take those codes with you - which means your streaming history and royalty matching history goes with them. CGM issues ISRC codes that are registered to you and your catalog from day one.

PRS covers performance royalties for public broadcast and live performance in the UK. It does not cover MCPS mechanical royalties (paid when your music is reproduced), PPL neighbouring rights (paid to performers and labels when recordings are broadcast), CCLI church licensing, or international collection through reciprocal agreements with overseas PROs. Most catalogues registered with PRS are still missing income from at least two of these channels.

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

Yes. We have specific experience serving gospel, Christian, and worship artists in the UK. Code Group Music has its own CCLI publisher portal and account, enabling direct registration of worship songs - not just coordination. We register your compositions with CCLI and collect church licensing royalties on your behalf, income that most independent Christian artists do not know they are owed. We also handle PRS and MCPS registration and distribution to Premier Christian Radio and UCB.

Yes. We have deep experience with the Caribbean music ecosystem, including JACAP (Jamaica), COTT (Trinidad and Tobago), and ECCO (Eastern Caribbean) royalty collection. For reggae, dancehall, soca, and calypso artists in the UK, we ensure PRS reciprocal agreements with Caribbean PROs are functioning correctly and that Boomplay and Caribbean-specific platform delivery is included in distribution.

Yes. We distribute to Boomplay, Audiomack, and all major African-facing streaming platforms in addition to global DSPs. For UK-based Afrobeats artists, we coordinate PRS registration, PPL neighbouring rights, and active pursuit of royalties from COSON (Nigeria) and GHAMRO (Ghana) under reciprocal agreements.

Yes. CCLI and PRS cover completely different licensing channels. PRS collects performance royalties when your music is broadcast on radio, TV, or streamed. CCLI collects church licensing fees when congregations reproduce your songs for worship - printed lyrics, projected screens, recordings used in services. Both streams exist independently. Most worship songwriters are registered with one and missing the other entirely.

Still have questions? We are happy to talk.

Get in Touch

Let's talk about your catalog.

The fastest way to start is by completing the free Catalog Assessment above. Or reach us directly — we respond to every enquiry personally.

management@codegroupmusic.co.uk

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Broken metadata is suppressing the value of your catalogue.We can show you how much.

What your distributor doesn't do.

How much is your catalogue leaving on the table?

One problem, three rooms it gets discussed in.

Yield from the catalogue you already own

A duty of care to the musical asset

Know what you are buying before you buy it