Organisation catalogue teams

What it is

Publishers and production houses write songs to send out, not for an artist on their roster. Aden's roster is built around artists, so those songs had nowhere to live: they belong to the organisation, not to any one act.

A catalogue is the answer. It is a team the organisation owns, holding the writers as its members instead of an artist. Songs written for pitching land there, and everything the product already does with a team, splits, royalties, contracts, permissions, release plans, works on them unchanged.

Splits

The writers on a catalogue are credited on every song imported into it, split equally. Four writers on the catalogue means 25% each, on composition, master, mechanical, publishing and sync alike. Rounding goes to whoever ran the import when they are one of the writers, so the totals a royalty run reads always come to exactly 100.

That is the starting point, not the final word. Open any song's collaborators and change the split, add a writer who was not on the catalogue, or remove one who was not in the room. The per-song version is what counts from then on.

Only writers the organisation has verified can be seeded onto a catalogue. A pending self-claim is someone asserting a publishing relationship, not a credit the organisation has agreed to put on every song it owns.

Using it

1. Go to Import in your organisation and open the Own catalogue tab.
2. Name the catalogue and choose the writers on it. The picker shows the split each of them will get.
3. Choose Create catalogue.
4. Choose Import music on the catalogue to bring the songs in from Dropbox, a spreadsheet or a Spotify playlist.

You can run more than one catalogue: per genre, per year, or per sub-label.

Placing a song

When a song is placed with an artist, it does not move. Link the receiving artist's team to the track and the credit shows on both sides, with the catalogue keeping the song and the splits it was written under.