How A Music Services Manager Simplifies Publishing Catalogue Management

Music publishing catalogue management can be a marathon of complexities. By outsourcing this process, you reduce the risk of errors and enhance efficiency. A music services manager promises to ease the burden. Today, we explore some of the benefits of outsourcing your music catalogue management to a services manager.

CWR Made Easy

Common Works Registration (CWR) has become the benchmark of catalogue registration for music publishing. The benefit of CWR is in its standardisation,  although the need to cover a variety of scenarios means it can be notoriously complex to navigate. Its use cases can cover different catalogue scenarios, ranging from simple work registration setups to complex and long chains of rights, since it’s also important to get the timing of work registrations right. A services manager can send the catalogue for registration when it's ready.

With a services manager, like Curve, on your side, you can rest while CWR registrations are taken care of for you. This includes taking care of sending the registrations, processing of ACK files and correcting errors, ensuring unequivocal accuracy.

Experience, Expertise, And Acceleration

Navigating areas such as CWR and ACK is (in)famously complex and time-consuming. This can lead to spiralling costs as well as unnecessary delays, reducing organisational efficiency while negatively impacting productivity. The results of getting it wrong can be serious, with some leading to litigation, especially when the registration or accounting errors are grave.

Outsourcing your music catalogue management processes to a music services manager can reap multiple benefits, such as increased efficiency and accuracy in royalty reporting and processing. Music management services act as powerful error mitigation tools, especially if you are supported by dedicated providers such as Curve. We know the software and can tailor our approach for your unique requirements, offering maximum benefit.

It’s All In The Accuracy

One of the biggest challenges of catalogue management for music is registration accuracy. The process is an intricate one, and mistakes are commonplace. Unfortunately, mistakes are also costly, both in terms of financial loss and PR damage. One of the major pitfalls is manual registrations, which is where human error can creep into even the best-intentioned spreadsheet. Consequently, accidents unfold. Rightsholders are unpaid or overpaid, balance books become blotched with spilt ink, and accountants respond with a disapproving frown.

By adopting a services manager, you can relax in the knowledge that your catalogue and royalty management is in tune, expert, reliable and accountable.

Let The Data Deliver

We live in a world built from data. It tells us who is trending, where strategic opportunities are positioned, and the best avenues for organisational success. However, it usually takes powerful computation and the analysis of millions of lines of royalties to successfully interpret the flows of information.

This is where music management services can greatly enhance your control, agility, and flexibility. With comprehensive insight into the patterns and nuances of your catalogue, your own services manager can identify catalogue registration issues and provide solutions to fix them. They can take on royalty tracking tasks to find the gaps in income and identify the cause, making sure the rights-holders get paid their due royalties.

What Next?

A music services manager can not only simplify the accounting process, it can bring deeper meaning to the numbers that complicate your catalogue. Curve provides comprehensive services tailored for label, publishing, and distribution clients, ensuring streamlined management and optimised efficiency across the music industry spectrum. To start optimising your catalogue’s potential while taking the hassle out of its registration, contact us for a friendly chat or check our Services page for more information.