Free Royalty Scan
You asked whether you're set up to get paid before the October single. Short answer: your performance side is half built, and your mechanical side isn't built at all. The second one is the gap that matters. US streams generate a mechanical royalty whether or not anyone is registered to receive it, and nothing of yours is. It's also free to fix.
- Scanned
- 7 August 2026
- Catalog checked
- 11 songs, two EPs
- Sources
- public registries only
- Cost
- free, no card
This looks at what anyone can see from outside. It doesn't touch your accounts, so there are things in here marked as not checkable. Those are honest gaps in what a public scan can reach, not judgements.
In place
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You're affiliated with BMI as a writer.A writer record exists under Wren Hollis. That's the part most people never get around to, and it's done.Confirmed
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Five of eleven songs are registered with BMI.All five are from Caliche. Those five can collect performance royalties when they're played on radio, in venues, or on streaming.Confirmed
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Your Spotify for Artists profile is claimed.Verified check, current photo, bio present, artist pick set. You have your own listener data and you can pitch to editorial.Confirmed
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A mailing list exists and is collecting.640 subscribers on the signup linked from your Instagram. This is the only channel you own outright.Confirmed
Gaps
None of your eleven songs are registered with the MLC. The MLC pays songwriters the mechanical royalty on US streams. Caliche has been live for over a year, Yard Sale Gospel for nine months, and they have 310,000 streams between them. Every one of those streams generated a mechanical royalty, and with no registration there's nobody for it to be paid to. How much of that is still claimable isn't something a scan of public registries can see, and this scan doesn't guess. Registration is free and you can do it yourself. Doing it before the October single also means County Line is covered from day one instead of retroactively.
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Six songs have no BMI registration.All six from Yard Sale Gospel. Being affiliated isn't the same as registering the songs, and only registered works collect.Gap
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The publisher share on the five registered works is unclaimed.Your writer share is attached to you. The publisher share, which is the other half of a performance royalty, isn't attached to anyone. You don't need a publishing deal to claim it; you need a publishing entity, which can be you.Gap
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Songwriter credits are missing on nine of eleven songs.Spotify shows credits on two songs only. Credits don't pay you directly, but sync and publishing both run on the paper trail they create.Gap
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There's nowhere for a fan to buy anything directly.No Bandcamp, no store. At 62 shows in two years with merch selling, the online half of that is not running. This is the only income that doesn't wait on a platform's payout schedule.Gap
Not checked from outside
These need access to your accounts. They're the substance of the paid review, and we're not going to guess at them here.
| Item | Why it's not visible from outside |
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| Distributor setup | Whether splits, territories and payees are configured correctly inside your distributor account. |
| Money already collected | What has been paid, what's sitting unclaimed, and whether anything has been sent back. |
| Co-writer splits | Two songs credit a second writer. Whether that split is agreed in writing isn't public. |
| Sync readiness | Whether instrumentals and clean versions exist, and whether the files are labelled the way a supervisor needs. |
| Neighbouring rights | Performer royalties on recordings, which are collected separately and are commonly missed entirely. |
Recommended first steps
In this order, and the first two are free and take an afternoon:
- Register all eleven songs with the MLC. This is the one with money already on the table.
- Register the six unregistered songs with BMI, and set up a publishing entity so the publisher share has somewhere to go.
- Add credits to the nine songs missing them, before the October single rather than after.
The gaps here are registration-shaped, which is the kind the Royalty & Revenue Review is built for. It opens the accounts this scan can't see and hands back the fix list in order. That's the natural next step, and you can also do the three things above yourself.
Scan performed from public sources on 7 August 2026 by Well Made Plays. Registry records change, so anything here is accurate as of that date. This is a read of what's set up, not advice on what you're owed, and not a promise of any amount.