Cadence Insights
Where music rights, data, and revenue meet.
Practical analysis for independent labels and music companies navigating royalty systems, contracts, and the data between them.
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Royalties and Catalog Valuation: Jermaine Dupri's Big Problem
The Jermaine Dupri and Sony dispute illustrates how a royalty-accounting question becomes a catalog-valuation question, and what buyers and sellers should check before it does.
Blockchain Won’t Rewrite Streaming Royalty Rates. It Could Change the Evidence Beneath Them.
Statutory royalty rates are established by law, not technology. But every rate depends on ownership, usage, revenue, and payment data.
The Five Places Your Music Revenue Goes Missing, and How to Find It
Missing money does not announce itself. Five recurring failures can leave substantial music revenue uncollected—and each one leaves a trail.