Metadata Is the Biggest Little Problem Plaguing the Music Industry

[Joyrex]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems

Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. It wasn’t that they had missed out on payments for a single song — it was that they had missed out on payments for 70 songs, going back at least six years.

[psn]

REMASTERED 2019 in the fucking song title tag. 

[Braintree]

When I first joined ASCAP, I thought about this kind of stuff. It was kind of laborious to consider even before streaming was the norm. I know that I've probably lost out on royalties over the years, but consistently doing the work to find out probably wouldn't be worth it.