$52.00
Recording royalty
Paid to the artist + label via your distributor (DistroKid, CD Baby, TuneCore, etc.)
SongBountyConfirms your recordings are matched on every DSP and that ISRCs aren't missing.
For Independent ArtistsYOUR MUSIC IS EARNING.
YOUR MUSIC IS EARNING.
YOU'RE JUST NOT COLLECTING.
We scan your catalog and tell you exactly how much money your music has earned that you never collected — across Spotify, Apple Music, the MLC, ASCAP, BMI, and more. Plain English. Real dollar amounts.
Scan My CatalogNo credit card required · Free catalog scan
The Money
Where does $100 of streaming revenue actually go?
A typical $100 in Spotify streaming revenue splits four ways. Two of those four are paid to you only if your songs are properly registered. SongBounty makes sure they are.
$35.90
Platform + intermediaries
Kept by the streaming service and middlemen before any royalty is paid out.
SongBountyOutside our scope — but we make sure none of the remaining $64.10 slips past you.
$7.00
Performance royalty
Paid to the songwriter via your PRO — ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR, or a foreign society.
SongBountyVerifies writer IPIs, PRO affiliations, and territory registrations across 90+ PROs.
$5.10
Mechanical royalty
Paid to the songwriter via the MLC in the US (or HFA / CMRRA / equivalents abroad).
SongBountyFlags every song sitting in the MLC unmatched pool and pre-fills the registration form.
Splits based on industry-standard streaming economics: recording royalty ~52%, publishing (mechanical + performance) ~12%, platform + intermediaries ~36%. Exact percentages vary by territory, deal terms, and CRB-set mechanical rates.
How It Works
FOUR STEPS TO FULL COVERAGE
The SongBounty process moves your catalog from invisible to fully reconciled. From a free sample scan to ongoing monthly monitoring, every step is sourced, dollar-quantified, and actionable.
01
Send Us a Sample
Share 3–5 songs from your catalog. We run our AI model and find leakage — completely free.
02
Review Our Work
See the detailed report: unmatched royalties, territory gaps, derivative leaks, all quantified in dollars.
03
Send Your Full Catalog
Like what you see? Send your full catalog. We enrich every track's metadata and run a deep audit.
04
Monthly Monitoring
We deliver a monthly Excel report showing new leakage, maintain your catalog data, and keep everything up to date.
Core Capabilities
EVERY LEAK. EVERY TERRITORY. EVERY DIME.
A music royalty audit, in plain English: a check of every song you own against every place it could be earning money — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, the MLC, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and more. SongBounty runs that check across 12+ sources in parallel. Every flag shows its source. Every dollar shows its math.
Catalog Enrichment
We pull ISRCs, ISWCs, writer IPIs, and audio fingerprints from 12+ sources. Every track knows who it is before we go looking for what it's owed.
Royalty Detection
Cross-referencing MLC, ASCAP, and BMI reveals unmatched recordings and duplicate registrations quietly redirecting your royalties elsewhere.
Territory Mapping
Your song earns worldwide but only pays in countries where it's registered. We map 90+ territories and flag every gap.
Derivative Protection
Sped-up edits, slowed covers, unauthorized remixes. We find the unlicensed versions monetizing without you — and show you how to claim them.
Revenue Quantification
Every flag comes with a dollar figure. CRB-validated mechanical rates show you exactly what each gap is costing — no guesses.
Actionable Fix List
Audits that just list problems are useless. You get a prioritized action plan: fix this first, register this next, here's the form.
The Difference
FLYING BLIND OR FULLY PAID.
Most independent artists earn streaming payouts they never fully reconcile — uncollected mechanicals at the MLC, missing PRO registrations across territories, and derivative versions monetizing on YouTube and Spotify. A SongBounty audit closes that gap.
Without SongBounty
Flying Blind
- Spreadsheets tracking royalties that don't tie out to any source
- Manual check-ins across six different PRO portals, every quarter
- Months or years of unmatched mechanicals sitting uncollected
- Derivative versions on YouTube earning money you'll never see
- Entire countries paying zero because the song was never registered there
With SongBounty
Fully Paid
- One audit report. Every source reconciled. Every number traceable.
- Automated monitoring across 12+ sources — no portal-hopping
- Every unmatched recording flagged with a dollar figure attached
- Derivative and remix detection across YouTube, Spotify, and more
- Every territory gap surfaced with the exact registration fix
Sources We Scan
Pricing
PAY FOR WHAT YOU FIND.
Three SongBounty plans — AUDIT, PROTECT, and MONITOR — priced flat by catalog size. Month-to-month with no annual contract and no commission on recovered royalties. Choose your catalog tier below; catalogs over 2,000 songs use Enterprise pricing.
Songs in your plan
AUDIT
Find your missing royalties
$99/mo
Up to 50 songs · Month-to-month · Cancel anytime
- Catalog Enrichment (ISRC, ISWC, platform IDs, BPM, key, mood, genre, lyrics)
- MLC Status Check (matched / unmatched / not registered)
- Unmatched Recording Identification
- Shadow Work Detection
- Revenue Estimate (mechanical royalties)
- Monthly Re-Scan
- Excel Report (6 sheets)
- PRO Writer & IPI Lookup
- Territory Gap Detection (90+ PROs)
- Derivative Leak Detection (YouTube, Spotify, iTunes)
- Content ID Gap Analysis
- New Derivative Alerts
PROTECT
Close every registration gap
$179/mo
Up to 50 songs · Month-to-month · Cancel anytime
- Everything in AUDIT, plus:
- Writer IPI Lookup (BMI × ASCAP cross-reference)
- PRO Affiliation Verification
- Territory Gap Detection (90+ PROs worldwide)
- Publisher Chain Verification
- Excel Report (8 sheets)
- Email Support
- Derivative Leak Detection (YouTube, Spotify, iTunes)
- Content ID Gap Analysis
- New Derivative Alerts
Most Popular
MONITOR
Full protection — stop the leaks
$279/mo
Up to 50 songs · Month-to-month · Cancel anytime
- Everything in PROTECT, plus:
- YouTube Derivative Scan (sped-up, slowed, nightcore, remix, cover, AI)
- Spotify Derivative Scan
- iTunes / Apple Music Derivative Scan
- Content ID Gap Detection
- UGC Revenue Loss Quantification ($)
- New Derivative Alerts (email)
- Full 10-Sheet Excel Report
- Priority Support
- Quarterly Strategy Call (300+ songs)
One Free Scan
FIND WHAT YOUR CATALOG IS OWED.
Drop your email. We'll scan a sample of your catalog and tell you, in real dollars, how much money your music has already earned that you haven't collected. No credit card. No sales call.
No spam. No sales follow-up. One audit, one email — we send the report and you decide.
Questions
ANSWERS BEFORE YOU ASK.
Real questions about music royalties, streaming payouts, and how SongBounty audits your catalog — answered clearly, without the industry jargon.
A music royalty is the money you earn every time your song is played, streamed, downloaded, performed, or used in a video. There are different kinds of royalties depending on how the song is used — streaming, radio, live performance, sync (TV/film), and more. Each kind is paid by a different organization, which is why so much music money goes uncollected: artists usually only know about one or two of the systems.
When someone streams your song on Spotify, two separate payments happen. The recording royalty (about 52% of the stream payout) goes to whoever owns the master — usually you and your distributor like DistroKid or CD Baby. The publishing royalty (about 10–15%) goes to the songwriter and is split into a mechanical (paid via the MLC) and a performance royalty (paid via ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC). If you only have a distributor, you're collecting the recording side and missing the publishing side.
The MLC (Mechanical Licensing Collective) is the US organization that collects mechanical royalties from every on-demand streaming service — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube Music, and more — and pays them to songwriters. If your songs aren't registered with the MLC, that money sits in their unmatched pool. Over $400 million is currently sitting there, waiting for songwriters to claim it. Registration is free and takes minutes per song.
SongBounty is an AI-powered music royalty audit platform for independent artists, songwriters, and small labels. We scan your catalog across 12+ data sources — including the MLC, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube — to find unclaimed mechanical royalties, missing PRO registrations, territory gaps, and unlicensed derivatives. You receive a 10-sheet report with every flag quantified in dollars and a prioritized fix-it list.
A single stream generates two royalty types. The recording (master) royalty pays the artist and label through distributors like DistroKid or CD Baby. The composition royalty splits into a mechanical (paid via the MLC in the US) and a performance royalty (paid via PROs like ASCAP, BMI, SESAC). On a $0.004 Spotify stream, roughly 52% goes to the recording side and ~10–15% to the composition side. If you haven't registered with the MLC and a PRO, the composition share goes uncollected.
Songtrust and traditional publishing admins collect your royalties and take a 15–20% commission. SongBounty doesn't collect anything. We audit what you're already owed, expose the exact registration gaps and uncollected mechanicals, and give you a fix-it list you can act on yourself or hand to your admin. You keep 100% of what you recover. Think of us as the forensic accountant, not the collector.
No — and most independent artists don't have one. A publisher helps at scale but takes a percentage, and most won't sign you until your catalog is already earning meaningfully. SongBounty is built for that gap: you're earning enough to have uncollected money, but not enough for a publishing deal to make sense yet. When you do sign one, our audit history lets them start from clarity instead of a cold catalog.
Every US mechanical royalty from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and every other on-demand streaming service routes through the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). If you haven't registered your songs, that money sits in the unmatched pool — over $400M across the industry — until someone claims it. SongBounty flags every unregistered track and gives you the exact MLC registration form, pre-filled. Registering each song takes minutes.
Yes, and it's common. Sped-up edits, slowed covers, reaction videos, unauthorized remixes, and sample-based content get uploaded to YouTube, Spotify, and TikTok every day without a license. The ad revenue and streaming payouts go to whoever uploaded it, not to you. SongBounty scans those platforms for derivative versions of every song in your catalog and gives you the specific takedown, Content ID claim, or licensing path for each one.
Industry data points to over $400M in unclaimed mechanicals at the MLC alone, plus an estimated $2.5B+ in global Black Box royalties at PROs and CMOs. For a working independent artist with 50–300 songs, uncollected revenue typically falls between $500 and $25,000 per year — driven by missing MLC registrations, territory gaps in 90+ PROs, and unlicensed derivatives running on YouTube and Spotify.
Most audits complete within 24–48 hours for catalogs up to 50 songs and within 3–5 business days for 300+. You receive an Excel workbook with 10 sheets: catalog enrichment, MLC registration gaps, shadow works, territory coverage, derivative detections, revenue estimates with CRB-validated math, and a prioritized fix-it list. Every flag includes the source data so you can verify it yourself.
No login credentials are ever required. SongBounty only needs a CSV or Excel file with your song titles, artists, and composers. All analysis runs against public databases, registered APIs, and licensed data feeds. Your catalog data is encrypted in transit and at rest, never sold, and never shared with third parties.
Plans are priced by catalog size, month-to-month, with no annual contract. Even a five-song catalog can have uncollected mechanicals, missing PRO registrations, and derivative leaks. For artists with hundreds or thousands of tracks, the MONITOR plan includes ongoing monthly re-scans so new registration gaps and derivative uploads don't pile up unnoticed.