rightsHUB integrates data delivery feeds with Gracenote, DJ Monitor, Soundmouse, BMAT, Yacast and Jaxsta

By Emmanuel Legrand

Music rights data and asset management platform rightsHUB has integrated data delivery feeds with six leading music recognition technology (MRT) companies: Gracenote, DJ Monitor, Soundmouse, BMAT, Yacast and Jaxsta.

  rightsHUB said the integration with Nielsen-owned entertainment metadata specialist Gracenote, dance venues' tacking system DJ Monitor, music tracking company BMAT, cue sheets data supplier Soundmouse and French radio and online music tracking company Yacast into the first stages of the metadata supply chain will allow the platform to deliver "a key part of the toolkit to tackle issues around mismatched metadata and royalty payments."

  rightsHUB added that its new ability to easily register songs with MRTs prior to release "will mean that rights holders are supplying accurate and rich metadata to their partners early on; thus assisting PROs and CMOs in reporting."

Better identification of data

  In addition, the integration of Jaxsta, which operates the world’s largest database of official music credits, will help ensure that rightsHUB user's repertoire will be properly accredited.

  “It’s vital that rights holders take responsibility for registering their rights with MRT companies in the same way as they do with their distributors, CMOs and PROs," said rightsHUB CEO Lee Morrison. "With the correct data, revenue can flow to the rightsholder as it should. We have to give the MRT companies the data as early as possible into the promotional cycle so that performance can be identified."

  Added Morrison: “By offering this service for free to clients we hope rights holders will earn more revenue in the long term. In the past, this has not been possible for rights holders directly, due to them not having the technical capability. With rightsHUB, data can be delivered to all B2B partners at the touch of a button, reducing the need for multiple manual data delivery points”.