Some of your money already exists. It's just sitting in the wrong place.
These guides walk the claims and registrations that recover it — each one a persisted checklist with the exact portals, names, and fields.
Claim your share of the MLC unmatched pool
⚠ The MLC plans to start distributing remaining unmatched royalties by market share in early 2027 — claim yours before it becomes someone else’s check.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in mechanical royalties sit at the MLC because streaming services reported plays they couldn’t match to a registered songwriter. If your songs strea…
open the guide →Set up SoundExchange completely
⚠ Unclaimed digital-performance royalties are released after about three years. Registration is free and takes an evening.
SoundExchange collects digital performance royalties for recordings played on internet radio, SiriusXM, and Pandora — roughly a billion dollars a year that distributors do not touc…
open the guide →DIY vs publishing admin — decide honestly
A publishing administrator (Songtrust, Sentric, and others) registers your songs with collection societies worldwide and takes a cut — typically 15–20% of publishing income, someti…
open the guide →International royalties — what exists beyond the US
Every system this hub covers has a foreign twin: other countries have their own PROs, their own mechanical societies, and their own neighboring-rights organizations — each holding …
open the guide →Recovery works best on a registered catalog. If you haven't yet, run the scanner first — unmatched money can only attach to works that exist in the systems.