Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours
A new tool allows musicians to check if they have unclaimed royalties sitting in the 'black box' of The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). The tool helps artists identify missing payments resulting from unmatched recordings and compositions.
Why it matters
Millions of dollars in royalties go unclaimed annually; this tool provides a practical way for artists to recover lost income before it is redistributed.
See which of your recordings are unregistered or unclaimed at The MLC, and roughly what that's costing you.
Paste a Spotify artist, album or song link , or search by name:
Linked to a work at the MLC with every share claimed. Nothing to do here.
The MLC matches each service's copy of a recording to your work separately, so Spotify, Apple and Pandora are three different matches. Most of yours landed and a few didn't, and money is sitting behind the ones that didn't. Common, and usually the last thing left.
Linked to a work, but some of it has no owner attached and that slice is accruing in the black box. Not always wrong: if you wrote with other people, the unclaimed part may simply be theirs.
Linked to a work, but nobody has claimed any of it. All of its mechanicals are sitting unallocated.
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