Well Made PlaysWren Hollis · Dusty Alt-Country · Austin, Texas

Royalty & Revenue Review

The free scan said your mechanical side wasn't built. Inside the accounts, that's confirmed and there are two things it couldn't see: an undocumented co-write on two songs, and a distributor payout sitting under its threshold since March.

Reviewed: 14 August 2026
Accounts opened: 6
Catalog: 11 songs, two EPs
Walkthrough: 30 minutes, booked 19 August

How to read this

Everything below is marked one of four ways: set up correctly, set up wrong, missing, or waiting on something only you can do. Nothing here says what you're owed, because nobody can honestly tell you that from a statement review.

Registrations

Checked title by title against the actual catalog rather than in aggregate, which is where partial registration hides.

BMI writer affiliationNothing to do. The writer record is clean and the IPI is attached.
Correct
BMI work registration, Caliche, 5 of 5These five collect performance royalties as they should.
Correct
BMI work registration, Yard Sale Gospel, 0 of 6Registering them starts performance collection on six songs that have been live for nine months.
Missing
MLC membershipMembership is free and is the precondition for every mechanical claim below.
Missing
MLC work claims, 0 of 11Claiming the catalog connects your songs to US streaming mechanicals, including the back period the MLC holds.
Missing
Publisher share on the 5 registered worksThe share exists and points at nobody. A sole-proprietor publishing entity, which you can register yourself, gives it somewhere to land.
Set up wrong

Splits

Priority finding

Two songs have a second writer and no written split. Ranger Radio and Long Road Home both credit a co-writer on the recording. There's no signed split sheet for either. Until there is, neither song can be cleared for sync, and both are exposed if anyone remembers the session differently in five years. This is the one item on this list that gets worse with time rather than staying still.

Ranger RadioSplit sheet drafted and in your folder. It needs the conversation and two signatures; we can't have that conversation for you.
Your action
Long Road HomeSame sheet, same two signatures. Same conversation, ideally in one call rather than two.
Your action
Remaining 9 songsSole writer, nothing to document.
Correct

Distribution

ISRCs across 11 songsConsistent and unique. No duplicates, which is the usual mess.
Correct
Payout thresholdThe account is set to pay out at a threshold your monthly earnings haven't reached since March, so the balance sits rather than arriving. Lowering it releases what has accumulated on the next cycle.
Set up wrong
Payee and tax detailsCurrent, and matching the name on the PRO record, which matters more than it sounds.
Correct
Statement anomaliesEleven months of statements reviewed. Nothing irregular, and the per-platform mix is what you'd expect at this size.
Correct

Sync readiness

Sync readiness (starter)

This is the short version, deliberately. It says whether the door is open, not what's behind it.

Instrumentals existNone of the eleven have an instrumental bounced. Most sync requests need one and the request usually comes with a deadline attached.
Missing
Clean versionsNothing needs one. No explicit content in the catalog.
Correct
Metadata completeNine of eleven songs are missing writer credits at the platform level, so ownership isn't legible to anyone looking.
Set up wrong
One-stop statusNine of eleven songs are one-stop today, the nine you wrote alone. The two co-writes are blocked by the undocumented splits above; with those signed, they can be cleared with Junie's signature.
Your action

That's where this checklist ends on purpose. The full catalog audit, with file specs, an ownership grid and the one-pager you actually send to a supervisor, is Sync-Licensing Prep.

Direct-fan income

Mailing list, 640 subscribersCollecting and yours. Nothing to fix, though nothing has been sent to it since February.
Correct
Bandcamp or equivalentMerch sells at the shows and has nowhere to go between them. This is the only income that doesn't wait on a platform's payout schedule.
Missing
Tip or support surfaceNo cost to add, and the residency audience is the one most likely to use it.
Missing

Included

Deliverables included

Royalty tracker: Working file, one row per song, registration state per registry.
Account checklist: Every account, its status, and who holds the login.
Registration walkthroughs: BMI, the MLC and publishing, written against your accounts, not generic.
Split sheet: Filled in for the two co-writes, ready to sign.
Sync starter checklist: The table above as a working file.
Report-pulling order: Which statement to pull from where, so you can repeat this yourself each quarter.

Fix list

Fix list, in priority order

Fix	Who	When
Sign the two split sheets.Everything sync-shaped is blocked behind these, and they're the only item that degrades as memories fade rather than staying undone.	You	one conversation
Join the MLC and claim all eleven songs.Free, and it connects the catalog to US streaming mechanicals including the period already behind you.	You	walkthrough written for your account
*Register the six Yard Sale Gospel* songs with BMI.**Six songs have been earning performance royalties with nowhere to send them for nine months.	You	walkthrough included
Lower the distributor payout threshold.One setting. The balance stops accumulating and starts arriving.	You	two minutes
Register a publishing entity and attach the publisher share.Half of every performance royalty currently has no destination. You don't need a publishing deal for this.	You	with the walkthrough; a professional if you want the entity structured for tax
Add writer credits to the nine songs missing them.Doesn't pay you directly. It's the paper trail that publishing and sync both read.	Us	once you confirm the credits
Bounce instrumentals for the eleven songs.Sync requests arrive with deadlines. Having these already made is the difference between answering and passing.	You	at the next session
Open a direct-fan storeThe release is the moment the mailing list and the residency audience are both paying attention.	Us to set up, you to price	before the October single.

Reviewed 14 August 2026 from the accounts listed on the checklist. This is a read of how your setup is configured and what to do about it. It's not accounting, it's not tax or legal advice, and it makes no claim about amounts owed or recoverable. Anything that turns out to be a genuine dispute goes to a professional, and we'll say so when we see one.