For Labels, Publishers & Rights Holders · Part of our music label services
Catalogue Services for Owners, Not Just Artists
Code Group Music administers, audits, and optimises catalogues for independent labels, publishers, estates, and acquirers. We find where royalties leak, fix the registrations and metadata behind them, and collect what the catalogue is owed - without taking a share of your rights.
Get a free catalogue scanWho This Is For
- Independent record labels managing a roster of releases and masters
- Music publishers and publishing administrators with multi-writer books
- Estates and rights holders inheriting or managing a deceased writer's catalogue
- Investors and acquirers buying catalogues who need clean due diligence
- Catalogue owners preparing an asset for sale or valuation
- Managers and accountants overseeing a client's rights and royalties
What Catalogue Services Cover
A catalogue earns what its registrations and metadata allow it to earn. When works are unregistered, splits are undocumented, or ISRCs and ISWCs are missing, income stalls in the unmatched pool. Here is what we handle.
Catalogue Audit & Health Check
A full review of registrations, splits, and metadata across the catalogue. We map every work to its ISRC, ISWC, and society registration, and flag what is missing, duplicated, or misattributed - the silent failures that block royalty routing.
Royalty Recovery & Collection
We pursue income across performance, mechanical, neighbouring rights, and digital channels - including back-dated royalties sitting unmatched at PRS, MCPS, PPL, and international societies. Most catalogues are owed more than their owners realise.
Rights & Registration Administration
Ongoing registration of works and splits across collection societies via our SESAC partnership, plus PPL and MCPS publisher accounts. We keep the catalogue's registration current as it grows or changes hands.
Metadata Correction at Scale
Bulk correction of ISRC, ISWC, UPC, writer split, and label data across the whole catalogue, delivered consistently to every DSP and society so payments stop splitting between ghost entries.
Acquisition & Sale Readiness
For owners preparing to sell and buyers preparing to acquire: we verify what the catalogue actually contains, document the income history, and clean up the registrations so the asset presents and prices cleanly.
Distribution & Territory Expansion
Delivery to 150+ DSPs and specialist platforms, including diaspora and emerging-market services that general distributors skip - so the catalogue earns in every territory where there is an audience.
Why a Distributor Dashboard Is Not Enough
DIY distributors move audio to DSPs and report streaming income. For a catalogue, that is the surface. The income that goes uncollected sits underneath it.
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Publishing income is invisible to distributors
Distributors pay master streaming royalties. They do not register your compositions, collect mechanicals, or pursue performance income from PRS, MCPS, or their international equivalents. For a catalogue, that is often the larger half of the income - left uncollected.
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Catalogue-scale metadata errors compound
A single missing ISRC is a small problem. The same error repeated across a thousand works is a structural one. Duplicate distributor entries, inconsistent splits, and unregistered works quietly divide and strand income at scale.
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Acquirers discount what they cannot verify
When a catalogue's registrations are unclear and its royalty history is unverifiable, buyers price in the risk. Clean, documented, fully-registered catalogues command better valuations and clear due diligence faster.
How It Works and What It Costs
There is no published per-service price. Publishing administration and distribution are commission-based on royalties we collect, so we only earn when you earn. Audit and metadata work is scoped as a fixed engagement. The free catalogue scan tells us the scope before anyone commits.
- Request a free catalogue scan and tell us the size and shape of the catalogue.
- We review registrations, metadata, and collection setup, and identify where income is leaking.
- We come back within 2 business days with an honest assessment of the gaps and what they are worth.
- If it makes sense to proceed, we scope the work - commission-based collection, fixed-scope audit, or both.
Catalogue Services: Common Questions
What is a free catalogue scan?+
A no-obligation review of your catalogue's registration, metadata, and collection setup. We look at where royalties are likely leaking, which works and splits are unregistered, and which territories and platforms your current setup never reaches. You receive an honest assessment within 2 business days. There is no charge and no commitment to proceed.
Do you acquire catalogues or take ownership of rights?+
No. Code Group Music is a label services provider, not an acquirer. We administer and optimise rights on your behalf without taking any ownership stake. You retain 100% of your copyright and masters. If you are preparing a catalogue for sale or acquiring one, we provide the audit and clean-up that supports the transaction - we do not sit on either side of it.
What does it cost?+
There is no published per-service price. Publishing administration and digital distribution are commission-based on royalties we collect, so we only earn when you earn. Metadata and audit work can be scoped as a fixed engagement. The free catalogue scan is the starting point for pricing - it tells us the scope before anyone commits to anything.
How large does a catalogue need to be?+
We work with catalogues from a few hundred works up to several thousand. The questions in the assessment cover catalogues from 1 to 1,000+ works. Larger and partially-owned catalogues, estates, and multi-writer publishing books are all in scope.
Can you help prepare a catalogue for sale or due diligence?+
Yes. Acquirers and buyers discount catalogues with unclear registrations, missing splits, and unverifiable royalty histories. We audit the catalogue, correct the metadata, confirm registrations across societies, and document the income picture so the asset presents cleanly. The same audit helps buyers verify what they are acquiring before they commit.