Catalogue Audit

A catalogue audit is a systematic review of every work and recording in a catalogue against the industry's registries and societies. It verifies metadata health (identifiers, credits, splits), finds registration gaps at PROs and collection societies, checks chain-of-title, and quantifies the royalties the catalogue is failing to collect. The output is a findings report plus a remediation plan - and if you engage us to fix it, the fixes are applied and verified.

Three buyers, one problem. Labels auditing catalogues they already own to recover suppressed income. Estate and rights lawyers with a duty of care to a musical asset held for beneficiaries. And investors or acquirers who need pre-acquisition due diligence, post-acquisition remediation, or sale-readiness preparation before a catalogue goes to market.

Audits are scoped engagements priced on application, based on catalogue size and the depth required - a full audit or a targeted partial audit. Start with the free Catalog Assessment and we will come back with a scoped proposal rather than a rate card.

Every track is validated against independent registries and society repertoires: ISRC and ISWC integrity, writer and publisher splits, PRO and MLC registration coverage per territory, neighbouring rights, chain-of-title consistency, and conflicts between what your records say and what the registries say. Each finding is graded by severity and tied to the royalties it is blocking.

The audit is a scoped, one-time diagnostic engagement: it tells you exactly what is wrong, what it is costing, and what fixing it is worth - the deliverable institutional buyers need for a decision. Metadata Administration is the ongoing service that keeps a catalogue clean after the audit. Many clients start with an audit and move to ongoing administration once the findings are remediated.

Yes - that is one of its primary uses. Buy-side, the audit quantifies registration coverage, metadata health, and uncollected royalties before you price the deal, surfacing gaps a data room will not show you. Sell-side, remediating the findings before going to market means the asset is presented clean, with verifiable data behind it.