Music Asset Services
Music Asset Services
Both doors start with an audit. What happens after it depends on what you own.
Send us your titles and we'll check them against The MLC's public registration data — what's registered, what's claimed, and what has unclaimed shares sitting against it. Registration is what makes matching possible. Works that never got there don't get counted.
Eligibility starts at 25 million streams. Signup is invitation-only — the audit comes first. The audit reports registration status, not an estimate of money owed.
We review your catalog's registration and match status — writer and publisher shares, society coverage, territory gaps — using public registration data and whatever statements you choose to share. Market share distributions are allocated pro rata to works that already earned, so catalogs that aren't fully registered end up funding the ones that are.
Everything you send is treated as confidential. Administration is invitation-only — codes are issued after a consultation, and can reduce the setup fee.
I spent 30 years in music, publishing, and production — eight of them at Interscope Geffen A&M Records, a division of Universal Music Group — before starting MAS. Along the way I worked with thousands of songwriters and publishers, and as a music industry attorney I cleared hundreds of samples and interpolations. I started MAS because the MLC and its counterparts worldwide are sitting on royalties that quietly vanish into black-box redistribution if nobody claims them in time.
That figure is The MLC's own, and it argues against us: 94% of 2021 usage matched. Matching works — when a registration exists. When yours doesn't, the money still accrues; it just sits in the unmatched pool with nothing attributing it to you. And when The MLC distributes unmatched royalties by market share, it allocates them pro rata to songs that already earned — and the largest publishers hold the largest share. There is no account with your name on it.
We register your catalog with The MLC, your PRO — ASCAP or BMI — and societies in 60+ international territories, then maintain the metadata so the matching engine can find you. Registration doesn't guarantee royalties; it makes matching possible. You keep 100% of your copyright. MAS administers. We never take ownership of a song.
Every royalty stream, every platform — we handle the bureaucracy so you stay creative.
Complete registration with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, The MLC, and 60+ international societies. We audit and correct your metadata so every play gets attributed correctly.
We collect mechanical royalties from every DSP — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, and beyond. Most songwriters at your level are missing significant mechanical income.
We work alongside your PRO to maximize performance royalty collection — catching international performance income your PRO doesn't collect on its own.
Your music is played globally. We register and collect in 60+ territories — including markets most US-based songwriters have never tapped into.
We audit your entire catalog for missing registrations, split errors, and unmatched recordings. Then we fix them and go after the back-royalties you're owed.
Real-time catalog monitoring, transparent reporting, and proactive alerts when we catch something that needs attention. Full visibility into your publishing income.
Four steps. No confusion. We handle the complexity so you don't have to.
Sign up, pay the one-time $100 fee (unless you have an invitation code), and submit your songwriter details.
Submit your catalog — song titles, co-writer splits, ISRCs. We handle the rest. No publishing knowledge required.
We register your catalog globally, audit for errors, and begin active monitoring across all platforms and territories.
Royalties are collected and paid to you within 10 business days of receipt. No quarterly delays. Full transparency.
Music Asset Services is new. We have no clients yet, so there are no results to show you, and we are not going to invent any — the fake quote with the first name and the five-figure number is the oldest tell in this business, and you have seen it a hundred times. So instead of asking you to trust us, here are the checkable things. Read it skeptically. That is the correct way to read it.
Before you send us a catalog, ask us for our business registration details, the name of the person who will handle your account, and the full administration agreement to read end to end. We will send all three, unprompted, before anything is signed. A company that will not send them is not one you should sign with — that test includes us.
No one can know what sits in your name until your catalog is checked. An audit reports what we find. It does not promise what we will find.
Every industry figure on this page comes from The MLC's own published reporting, cited below so you can read the source yourself. No source, no number.
Not a percentage, not "for the term," not buried in a schedule at the back. You retain 100% ownership. We administer. You own.
$100 once, to set up. Then 15% of what we actually collect. If we collect nothing, that $100 is the only money you will have paid us, and it is not refundable.
12-month initial term, then a 1-year collection period so royalties already generated still reach you. Then it ends, unless we both agree in writing.
Eligibility starts at 25M streams. If you're not there, we tell you at the audit stage, and the audit costs nothing. That's not a velvet rope — it's how we avoid taking a fee we can't earn back for you.
These are The MLC's numbers, not ours. The MLC has not endorsed MAS, has no affiliation with us, and does not vouch for us. We cite their reporting because it is public and you can check it without asking our permission.
Transferred February 2021 at roughly $424M, then adjusted down after the Copyright Royalty Board finalized Phonorecords III rates. The MLC's own language: equitable market share distribution "has not yet begun, and no such distributions have been made to date." No date has been announced. Not 2027. Anyone who gives you one is guessing.
Source: themlc.comThis is a different pool from the one above — post-launch blanket royalties. It moves one usage-month at a time, one month per month, beginning with January 2021 usage. The first distribution is under $7 million, and The MLC says it will likely come in lower still due to continued reprocessing.
Source: themlc.comThe MLC reports an average match rate above 92%, rising to 94% for 2021 usage, and more than $4 billion in royalties processed since launching in 2021. Those are good numbers and they argue against us. The issue is the remainder — and a high match rate is not the same as your songs being matched.
Source: themlc.comNo rights grabs. No surprises. Here's exactly what you get.
A flat, one-time fee per songwriter upon signup. If you have an invitation code, you can apply it at checkout. This covers onboarding, catalog intake, and initial setup.
We charge a simple 15% administration fee on royalties collected on your behalf. You keep 85% of everything you earn. No other fees. No hidden deductions.
We pay you within 10 business days of receiving your royalties — once the $250 minimum threshold is met. No waiting quarters. No holding your money.
We collect royalties on songs delivered during your first year. If you cancel, we provide a one-year post-term collection period for any royalties earned while your account was active.
With MAS, you own your copyright. We keep ownership and creative control exactly where it belongs — with you. We are administrators, never publishers.
Question we didn't answer? Put it in your audit request and we'll answer it directly. No sales pressure — just straight answers.
Request a Free Catalog Audit Publishers & Labels — Book a Call →Send us your titles and we'll check them against The MLC's public registration data — what's registered, what's claimed, and what has unclaimed shares sitting against it. You get the findings by email. No call required, no card, no obligation.
