#1 Software to get your royalties
UMG, Sony, and Warner artists get paid when AI trains on their catalog. Independent artists don’t — because no one has counted them yet. Find out your status free, in two minutes.
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Royalty gaps, licensing status, and AI deal coverage.
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AI Training Status
DistroKid catalog • no AI deal found
Oct 24, 2026
Excluded
Unmatched Royalties
PRO + MLC gaps • ready to review
Oct 22, 2026
Found
Sync & Mechanical Uses
Potential usage gaps • needs confirmation
Oct 18, 2026
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ARTISTS COUNTED — VERIFIED BY HAND
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Every registration is a line in a public ledger — the number AI companies will eventually have to negotiate with.
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WHAT YOU’RE OWED
Three places your money can disappear.
Backline checks the royalty gaps artists already know — and the AI gap most tools ignore.
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Royalties already earned
Unmatched PRO and MLC money can sit unpaid for years. We check where it gets stuck.
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Sync and mechanical gaps
Uses happen without clean paperwork. Backline helps flag the places worth chasing.
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AI training compensation
Majors have deals. Most indie artists don’t. Getting counted is how that changes.
Which one are you?
Three ways artists find out they’ve already been left out of the AI deals. Pick yours.
01 // UNCERTAIN
You’re on an indie label and have no idea if you’re covered.
Merlin- and Kobalt-affiliated catalogs sometimes get folded into major AI deals without anyone telling the artist. Not knowing your own affiliation isn’t a small gap — it’s exactly the question this exists to answer.
02 // EXCLUDED
You’re self-released, and you already know the answer.
DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby — none of them signed an AI deal on your behalf, because none of them could. If you released independently, you’re excluded today. Not eventually.
03 // ANGRY
Someone typed “in the style of you” and got your sound back for free.
That’s not a coincidence they stumbled into — it’s the product working exactly as designed. Getting counted is how that number becomes something AI companies can’t keep ignoring.
You’re not imagining it. This is new.
Not another royalty tracker. A count of everyone the AI deals left out — free to join, hard to ignore.