Music Publishing Administration

Six royalty streams. Most independent artists only collect two.

1M Management helps independent artists, songwriters, and producers find the four they're missing and build the systems to keep collecting.

Built for independent artists, songwriters, and producers.


Where the money goes missing

Six places independent artists most often lose royalties

Performance Royalties. Your PRO setup.

Songs released to streaming but never registered with BMI, ASCAP, or SESAC means royalties from radio, streams, venues, and TV are never collected.

Mechanical Royalties. The MLC.

Every U.S. stream generates a mechanical royalty that can sit unmatched at the Mechanical Licensing Collective if your catalog isn't registered correctly. The most commonly missed revenue stream.

Digital & Master Royalties. SoundExchange.

When your music plays on Pandora, SiriusXM, or webcasters, royalties due to the recording owner often go unclaimed entirely.

Songwriter Splits & Documentation

Missing or incomplete splits can delay payments, block registrations, or send royalties to the wrong collaborators years after release.

Distribution & Metadata

Wrong ISWC, ISRC, or IPI codes silently fragment your earnings across platforms and collection societies. The leaks that are hardest to trace.

Sync Readiness

One sync placement can equal years of streaming income. If your catalog isn't licensable on demand, opportunities pass you by.


The Catalog Health Check

Find your specific leaks. In 5 minutes.

A 24-question assessment across all six royalty categories. Each "yes" is a stream you're set up to collect from. Each "no" is money you may be owed but aren't receiving. Free.

You'll go straight to the 5-minute, 24-question assessment. No spam.


How I can help

Four ways to work with 1M Management

Whether you want to learn it yourself, get a one-time review, or hand off your publishing administration entirely there's a path for where you are.

Free

Catalog Health Check

A 24-question assessment across six royalty categories. See where your music is set up to collect and where it isn't. 5 minutes.

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$27

Independent Publishing Ebook

A self-paced guide to setting up your publishing administration: PROs, the MLC, SoundExchange, splits, metadata, and sync. Coming soon.

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Custom

Publishing Administration

Full ongoing publishing admin on a 15% royalty share. Registrations, collections, statements, and the day-to-day operational work that keeps your catalog paying.

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Why work with 1M Management

Collect from all six royalty streams, not just two

Independent artists typically collect from two royalty streams. There are six. The other four unclaimed mechanicals at the MLC, missed performance royalties at the PROs, uncollected SoundExchange income, and sync revenue passed by compound quietly across every release.

1M Management was built on a decade of publishing administration to close that gap. The same registration, documentation, and collections infrastructure that signed acts depend on, applied to independent catalogs. The result: songs that get paid for every stream, every play, every license not only the streams a distributor reports.

The work is operational, not glamorous. But every song registered, every split documented, and every dollar collected is money that would otherwise be left on the table.

Systems I work with daily
BMI / ASCAP / SESAC The MLC SoundExchange Songwriter splits ISWC / ISRC / IPI metadata Sync registration Catalog audits Recurring publishing administration

Common questions

Questions about working together

Why $75 for the Mini Audit?

It's a price designed to be accessible for independent artists who suspect they have catalog issues but aren't ready for a full publishing administration retainer. The audit takes real time a 5-day turnaround across PROs, the MLC, SoundExchange, splits, and metadata while staying low-friction enough to feel like a no-brainer for artists who want a real second set of eyes on their catalog.

How is the Mini Audit different from the free 15-minute call?

The free call is a conversation about your situation. The Mini Audit is concrete work: I open your catalog, review every release across each royalty stream, identify what's registered correctly and what isn't, then deliver a Loom video walkthrough plus a written action plan. The free call helps you decide if I'm the right fit. The audit is the actual deliverable.

What if my catalog is small — just a few releases?

Even a small catalog has six royalty streams to check. The Mini Audit is well-suited to artists with under 30 releases honestly, it's easier to spot leaks when there's less to dig through. Whether you have 5 releases or 50, the format works.

What if I'm not registered with a PRO yet?

That's exactly the kind of gap the audit is designed to find. The action plan will tell you which PRO to register with based on your catalog, what to set up at the MLC, how to claim your SoundExchange royalties, and what splits documentation you need to have in place. The audit is for figuring out what's broken AND what hasn't been set up yet.

What happens after the audit?

You walk away with a clear list of things to do. You can implement the action plan yourself using the included ebook as a guide, or if you'd prefer to hand off the operational work, the recurring Publishing Administration service is available on a 15% royalty share. There's no obligation either way the audit is a self-contained deliverable.


Find out what your music should be earning

Start with the free Catalog Health Check, or skip ahead to a personalized review of your specific catalog.