Case A · indie pop, large catalog
Thirty-one thousand dollars from a catalog that was already huge.
An indie pop project with hundreds of millions of plays. Their songs had been earning real money for years before they came to us — but a steady chunk of it was sitting unclaimed somewhere in the system, never reaching the writer. We took it over. Fixed the paperwork. Got the right names on file. The checks have been coming for three years now, and the total has crossed thirty-one thousand. Still going.
$31,662
Three years of monthly checks, still going.
Even huge catalogs miss money. We catch what’s missing.
Case B · post-rock instrumental 5-piece
A decade-plus catalog that had been quietly missing money the whole time.
Five-piece instrumental band, releases going back more than a decade. Their songwriter credits were listed properly — but the publisher their songs were tied to had gone out of business years ago, so the money was being sent to a dead end. We pointed everything at an active account, and the back-payments started arriving. Twenty-five thousand recovered. The catalog keeps earning, every month.
$25,209
5 writers · monthly checks ongoing.
Decade-plus catalog. Still recovering money the system had been losing.
Case C · psych-pop duo
Thirty thousand dollars to a duo who didn’t know any of it was owed.
Psych-pop duo, multi-album catalog. Their songs had been streaming for years before they came to us, and not a single dollar of it had ever been paid out to them. We set up their joint account — one account for both writers — and the very first check was $5,746. Years of unclaimed money, paid all at once. Thirty-one monthly checks since. Still counting.
$29,953
2 writers, one shared account · 31 monthly checks and counting.
$5,746 in the first check — years of unclaimed money, all at once.
Case D · post-hardcore 4-piece
Twenty-four thousand dollars, paid four equal ways.
Four-piece band. Every member co-wrote every song. We set each one up with their own account — writer and publisher both — so no one would ever have to argue about splits later. The first check was $5,169, paid out evenly across all four. Every month since has hit all four accounts the same way. No band fights, no spreadsheet wars.
$23,957
4 writers · 24 monthly checks, even split every time.
$5,169 in the first check, paid out four equal ways.
Case E · shoegaze duo
Years of money sitting unclaimed. One check unloaded it all.
Shoegaze duo, two writers sharing one account. Their songs had been streaming for years without anyone collecting on them. We set the paperwork up properly. The very first check was $3,687 — years of money that nobody had ever touched, paid all at once. Thirty-three months of steady checks since.
$18,480
2 writers, one shared account · 33 monthly checks.
$3,687 in the first check — years of unclaimed money, all at once.
Case F · hardcore punk band (currently inactive)
The band isn’t active. The songs are. Ten thousand dollars showed up anyway.
Hardcore punk band, currently inactive — not releasing new music right now. But their existing songs have been streaming since 2019, and the money those songs earn is still real. We took them on in the summer of 2025; the first check landed in October, and it was $10,107. Six years of unclaimed money, paid all at once. That one check was about eighty-eight percent of what we’ve recovered for them so far. Monthly checks have kept coming since. The songs don’t stop playing just because the band isn’t on tour.
$11,497
Band total · 8 monthly checks.
$10,107 in the first check — six years of money owed, paid in one go.
Case G · indie pop 5-piece
Five writers. Every one of them paid, every month, for three years.
Indie pop five-piece. Every member writes on every record, so when they came on we set up five separate writer and publisher accounts, one for each of them. The distributions go out to all five at the same time, every cycle. Thirty-five cycles of that so far — the longest run we have on the roster. Fifteen thousand recovered, and nobody in the band has had to ask another member where their cut went.
$15,217
5 writers · 35 monthly checks, longest tenure on the roster.
Every writer paid directly. No internal split chasing.
Case H · solo indie songwriter
A solo writer with a quiet catalog. Three years of checks added up.
A solo writer with a modest catalog and no breakout single. We registered everything properly at the start and pointed every release at the accounts we set up. Thirty-one monthly distributions later, the total is thirteen thousand. None of those checks was big. The point is that there were thirty-one of them, in a row, because the registrations were actually filed.
$12,948
Solo writer · 31 monthly checks.
No big check in any one month. Thirty-one of them in a row.
