For Independent Artists, Labels & Distributors
Over a billion in royalties goes unclaimed every year. Not because artists don't deserve it. Because the system is designed for major labels, not you. We fix that.
Same songs. Same platforms. Same PROs. Different results.
Your song plays on Spotify in Germany.
→ Spotify reports to GEMA
→ GEMA reports to your PRO
→ Money hits your account in 90 days
Your song plays on Spotify in Germany.
→ Spotify reports to GEMA
→ GEMA can't match your metadata
→ $0. Forever.
The major labels have entire departments that prevent this. You're supposed to figure it out yourself. That's the game.
Pay $200 upfront (annual).
The deal:
Because we know exactly where your money is. We've done this hundreds of times. The average artist has $4,000+ sitting in databases they don't even know exist.
"CreateBase found $4,000 in my first month. Money from a #1 hit in Austria I didn't even know I was owed."
— M.J., Rapper/Songwriter
Watch Story-to-Splits turn a conversation into registered rights across every PRO that matters.
What just happened:
Other services take 6-18 months to do this. If they do it at all.
Who We Serve
Major labels have Oracle databases and 47-person rights teams. You have us.
For: Independent artists, producers, songwriters
You made the music. You deserve the money. We handle rights administration, royalty recovery, and PRO registration so you can focus on the next song instead of fighting with bureaucracies designed to ignore you.
What you get: Automated registration, royalty recovery, splits management, ongoing maintenance
For: Independent distributors, labels, managers
Your artists chose you because you're not a major. But they still expect major-label results. Our white-label infrastructure becomes your competitive advantage.
What you get: White-label rights administration, catalog audit capabilities, metadata enrichment, distributor-grade tools under your brand
For: ASCAP, BMI, MLC, CMOs globally
You process billions in royalties. Bad data costs you millions in operational overhead and creates member disputes. We deliver clean, verified, first-party data that reduces conflicts and speeds processing.
What you get: Metadata enrichment, conflict resolution, identity consolidation, first-party verification
For: Sync agents, catalog buyers, financial institutions
You can't license what you can't verify. You can't lend against catalogs with holes in the chain of title. Clean data unlocks derivative licensing and enables sophisticated financial instruments.
What you get: Verified chain of title, clean splits data, audit-ready registrations, liquidity infrastructure
This is what happens when someone actually gives a shit about your metadata.
Former Def Jam Artist | #1 Hit in Austria
$4,000 recovered in first month
"I had a number one hit in Austria and top 10 across Europe. I knew I wasn't getting paid right, but I didn't know where to look. CreateBase found it in 30 days."
What we fixed:
Hall of Fame Producer
60% of catalog identified for repair | Big money in missing royalties
"90% of my reverted works had never been registered properly. I've been in this industry 30 years. CreateBase found holes I didn't know existed."
What we fixed:
100M+ Stream Artist | Musician, Singer, Producer
100+ million collective streams | Complete MLC payment recovery
"I have over 100 million streams but MLC payments were minimal. CreateBase audited my entire catalog and recovered what I was actually owed."
What we fixed:
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Why this matters: We're not a tech company that "discovered music." We're music people who learned to code because the tools we needed didn't exist.
Meet the people building CreateBase. Our founding team brings deep experience in music, law, AI, and product.
Here's what actually happens to that over a billion in unclaimed royalties:
Year 1: Your money sits in "pending" waiting for complete metadata
Year 2: PROs try to match it, fail, try again
Year 3: Money moves to "black box" unclaimed funds
Year 4+: Distributed to major publishers based on market share
Translation: Your money eventually goes to Sony, Universal, and Warner because they have the infrastructure to make sure their metadata is clean and yours isn't.
This isn't a bug. This is the system working as designed.
We're the fix.
| Other Services | CreateBase |
|---|---|
| You fill out forms | You tell us the story. AI does the translation. |
| 6-18 month processing | 90 seconds to clean registration |
| Hope they get it right | First-party verification + ongoing maintenance |
| Pay regardless of results | $200 + a share of what we find. We succeed when you succeed. |
| "We submitted it" | "Here's exactly what we recovered and where it was stuck" |
| Generic industry knowledge | Built by Def Jam, Universal, Sony, Spotify veterans |
For independent artists, labels, publishers, and distributors who are tired of losing to a system designed for someone else.