Most artists have missing royalties they've never collected — money earned from streams, radio airplay, and shows that never reached them because of registration gaps and bad metadata. The only way to fix that is to find out what you're owed and go claim it. Today we're making a partnership official that makes doing exactly that easier: SongBounty and Soundcharts are teaming up. SongBounty is the music royalty finder that scans your catalog for unclaimed royalties across the MLC, the PROs, and SoundExchange — and Soundcharts is the real-time music data that powers it. Here's how the two fit together, and how to see your missing royalties with a free scan.
Meet Soundcharts
Soundcharts is an all-in-one music market-intelligence platform — real-time, global data on how your music is actually performing. It's the kind of industry-grade analytics labels, distributors, and managers rely on, and the coverage is huge:
- Radio airplay across roughly 2,465 stations in 87 countries, using audio fingerprinting to catch every spin — even when a station's metadata is wrong or missing.
- Streaming, charts & playlists — real-time data from 23,000+ charts and 7.3M+ playlists across Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, Amazon Music, and more.
- Audience & social signals across the major platforms, plus concerts and events worldwide.
- All told, 200M+ data points a day, compiled into one clear picture of an artist.
That data is the difference between guessing how your music is doing and knowing — and for a royalty finder, it's the raw material that turns into uncollected royalties you can claim.
The royalties you're missing (and why)
Here's what most artists never hear: you can't collect what you can't prove. Your music earns across several income streams — mechanical royalties (the MLC), performance royalties (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR), and neighbouring rights (SoundExchange and its overseas equivalents) — and each pays out only when your works are registered and matched.
When a registration gap, a missing ISRC, or a wrong songwriter ID gets in the way, the collector still receives your money. It just can't match it to you, so it sits unclaimed. That's how artists end up with missing royalties across publishing and sound recordings — and why "find out what you're owed" is the first step to getting paid.
How SongBounty finds the royalties you're owed
This is where the partnership pays off. SongBounty is a music royalty finder: it takes Soundcharts' real-world data and maps it straight to the unclaimed royalties you can go collect. One free scan checks every source at once:
| What Soundcharts measures | The missing royalties SongBounty finds |
|---|---|
| Per-station radio airplay (real, fingerprinted spins by country) | Neighbouring-rights / SoundExchange royalties owed for actual broadcasts |
| Streaming counts & audience (Spotify, YouTube…) | Mechanical royalties held unclaimed at the MLC, plus your catalog's value |
| Audience by country | International performance royalties where you're streamed abroad |
| Concerts, festivals & livestreams | Live-performance royalties you can claim |
| Song identifiers, albums & release data | The registration gaps and metadata errors that caused the leak |
Every finding is priced in dollars — read each figure as "at least this much" — and sorted into a ranked to-do list of what to claim and where. It's the same engine behind our guide to finding unclaimed music royalties.
Registration gaps: the #1 reason royalties go unclaimed
Finding the money is only half the job — you also have to complete the registrations that route it to you. A SongBounty scan flags exactly where you're not registered: not affiliated with a PRO, not a member of the MLC, not claiming both of your SoundExchange shares, or missing foreign societies where you get airplay. Fix those gaps and you both recover the money that's already piled up and stop the next leak before it starts.
What the partnership means for you
We're teaming up to feature each other and, more importantly, to help artists on both sides find and collect more of what they're owed:
- If you use Soundcharts to track your career, you can now turn that same data into a ranked list of claimable royalties — run a free royalty-finder scan and see what's waiting to be collected.
- If you use SongBounty, your numbers are backed by Soundcharts' industry-grade data — the same intelligence the pros use.
And unlike a publishing admin, we don't take a cut: you keep 100% of every royalty you recover. Great data plus a real royalty audit is the whole job — one shows you what your music is doing, the other finds the money and shows you how to claim it. Here's how a scan works.
The bottom line
Your music generates data — plays, spins, streams, shows — every single day. Soundcharts captures it; SongBounty turns it into the missing royalties you're owed. Fewer blind spots, more of your money reaching you — and you keep 100% of it. See what you're owed with a free scan.
FAQ
Check every collector your music earns from — the MLC (mechanical), your PRO (performance), SoundExchange (neighbouring rights), and foreign societies — for money held under your name, then register and claim it. A music royalty finder like SongBounty does that search across your whole catalog at once, using Soundcharts data, and prices what it finds.
Yes — SongBounty offers a free scan at signup that shows your unclaimed and uncollected royalties before you pay anything, and we never take a percentage of what you recover. You keep 100%.
Mechanical royalties at the MLC, performance royalties at ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR, neighbouring rights at SoundExchange (and overseas societies), plus international performance and live-performance royalties — across both publishing and sound recordings.
A registration gap is anywhere your works aren't registered or matched with a collector — no PRO affiliation, no MLC membership, an unclaimed SoundExchange share, or a missing/incorrect ISRC. Gaps are the #1 reason royalties go unclaimed, so closing them both recovers held money and prevents future losses.
No. SongBounty uses Soundcharts' data under the hood, so a scan works without any account on your side. (Artists and managers who want deep daily analytics can use Soundcharts directly, too.)