We don’t just pull the MLC’s data. We make it make sense.
The MLC’s raw data is full of misspelled names, unmatched and mismatched songs, stage names in the writer field and credits with no IPI. Anyone can pull it. Making it usable is the hard part. Our proprietary matching algorithm works through more than 1.2 billion rows and ties every legal name, stage name, misspelling and IPI to the right writer. Then it finds the recordings of your songs the MLC never matched, and the ones matched to someone else’s registration.
A stage name or a one-letter typo, with no IPI on the line. The MLC reads it as a different writer, so the work never shows under him and the open share goes unclaimed.
Artists don’t get paid. Legal names do. Get back every writer’s profile.
Most catalogs arrive as titles and artists. So we find each writer’s legal name and IPI, then build a profile of every work the MLC lists them on, with the recordings and royalties on each. That’s where the misroutes, duplicates and unclaimed shares show up.
Everything the dashboard shows.
Everything the engine finds.
Every registration in your catalog, and every place the money stops, each with the filing that fixes it.
WHAT THE DASHBOARD SHOWS
Writers
Every writer on the registration as the MLC has them: name as written, IPI, role.
Publishers & splits
Every publisher and administrator on the registration, with its share.
Recordings attached
Every recording the MLC has tied to the registration, with the ISRC, store, label and release date.
Unclaimed pool
The shares of the registration no one has claimed, with the recordings the MLC is holding against them.
Unmatched pool
Recordings of the song the MLC has not connected to the registration, by store.
Misrouted
Recordings of the song the MLC has matched to a different registration.
WHAT THE ENGINE FINDS
“We have zero insight into which ISRCs are associated with the work.”
Jeff Price, founder of TuneCore and Word Collections, writing to the MLC, February 2024. Read the letter →The MLC pays each song for the recordings it ties to it, but it never shows you those ties. So you can’t see a recording paying someone else, or paying no one, or whether your fix worked. Your dashboard shows you every recording of your songs and exactly where its money goes.
Scammers are registering your songs and collecting your royalties.
A fake “(B Mix)” of Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” claimed 100% of more than 100 recordings and got paid on Apple Music, Tidal and iHeartRadio. The MLC kept paying it until a reporter caught it. That’s how the system works: no filter, no flag, no alert. If someone hijacks your song, the MLC expects you to find it yourself. Pace & Handy finds it for you, the day it shows up at the MLC.
Read the investigation: Duplicate Works, Diverted Royalties (Digital Music News) →From your files to a live dashboard
Send us what you have. We load your catalog against the MLC’s full database and your dashboard goes live. When you’re ready to fix something, the filings are one click away, or we handle them for you.
Buying a catalog?
Load it before you sign.
The same dashboard shows what’s registered, what’s leaking and what’s recoverable. Leakage isn’t in the trailing numbers, so it isn’t in the price. Every dollar you recover after close is valued at your multiple.