Add to catalog
Bring it all in at once.
Paste a Spotify artist URL to pull every track with ISRCs auto-attached, or add one work at a time when the metadata needs precision.
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Add a single song
Search Spotify by track name OR enter a non-DSP work manually. Set the writer + publisher splits, generate the contract. Best for adding one song at a time.
Start →
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Import an artist catalog
Pull every track Spotify has for an artist in one batch. Review the list, deselect covers or alt-takes, set default splits once. Best for catching up an established act.
Open import →
Catalog / Dashboard
Welcome back.
Works in catalog
0
0 recordings
Recovered to date
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net after Doom Tide commissions · since you joined
Pending royalties
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across open statements
Latest statement
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view all →
Recent activity
Last 14 days
Activity will appear here as your statements come in and registrations land.
Open work
0 tasks
You're caught up. Nothing's waiting on you.
Field note · for songwriters
"Most of what we recover for clients was always there. It just required someone willing to sit with the spreadsheet long enough to find it. Your statements come through us; your money lands with you."
Catalog
Every work you've written.
Every work we're handling.
Your registered works across PROs and The MLC. Red badges flag missing registrations; click Show metadata on any row for writers, publishers, splits, and identifiers.
Every work under Doom Tide’s administration for you. We’re registering and tracking these on your behalf at PROs and The MLC. Status badges show where each work sits in our pipeline. Click Show metadata on any row to review writers, publishers, splits, and identifiers.
▸Export help — how to use the MLC export and the PRO export expand ↓
MLC export · 5 steps at portal.themlc.com
- Click MLC export above — Doom Tide builds a CSV in the exact format The MLC accepts. File downloads to your computer (typically
~/Downloads). - Sign in to The MLC. Go to portal.themlc.com and sign in as a Self-Administered Songwriter (the role you'd have if you didn't have a publisher). Registration is free.
- Find the bulk upload page. From the dashboard, navigate to Works Registration → Bulk Upload. The page has a drag-and-drop area.
- Drag your CSV onto the upload area. The MLC validates the file format and shows you a preview of what will be submitted. Confirm.
- Wait for processing. The MLC assigns each work an MLC Song Code (you'll see this on the work detail in your catalog later). Initial processing takes 1–3 business days; recording matching against existing ISRCs can take 2–4 weeks more. Doom Tide tracks the state for each work in the registration column.
If a work fails validation: The MLC will tell you which field is wrong (usually a writer share that doesn't sum to 100% or a missing ISWC). Fix it in Doom Tide's catalog (click the work, edit the field), re-download the CSV, re-upload. Only the corrected rows need to go up.
PRO export · 4 steps at your PRO portal (BMI / ASCAP / SESAC / GMR)
- Click PRO export above. One CSV per PRO is generated (the file groups works by which PRO each writer is affiliated with). If you're solo at BMI you'll get one file; if you co-write with an ASCAP writer too, you'll get both.
- Sign in to your PRO's member portal:
- • BMI: bmi.com/songwriters → My Catalog
- • ASCAP: ascap.com/members → My Catalog
- • SESAC: sesac.com/portal → Repertoire
- • GMR: globalmusicrights.com → contact your rep directly; GMR has no self-service bulk upload yet.
- Find the bulk-register / batch-upload page. Each PRO names it differently (Register Works, Add Title, Batch Submission). The CSV format Doom Tide generates matches the most common spec each PRO publishes. If your PRO rejects the file because of a format mismatch, email hello@doomtide.co with the rejection message and we'll patch the export.
- Upload, confirm splits. Each PRO will show a preview of the works being added with writer shares and publisher info. Confirm and submit. The PRO will assign each work an internal Work Number (BMI Work#, ASCAP Work ID, SESAC Song#, etc.); add it back into the work's detail in Doom Tide so future audits can cross-reference.
Why per-PRO files? A single work where you wrote with an ASCAP co-writer needs to be registered at BOTH PROs — each one tracks the share owed to its own affiliated writers. Doom Tide splits the works correctly so you upload the right file to the right PRO.
Catalog is empty.
Every work you’ve written goes here — title, writers, ISWC, registration status across the PROs and the MLC. Drop in a song to start the file.
Every work under Doom Tide’s administration for you goes here — title, writers, ISWC, registration status across the PROs and the MLC. Add a song to start the file; we’ll handle the rest.
Welcome to Full Administration
Complete these steps so Doom Tide can start administering your royalties.
Doom Tide has been notified. A representative from Doom Tide will reach out within 1 business day to confirm your setup. In the meantime, complete as many steps below as you can.
First Moves checklist
These steps give Doom Tide the access needed to register and administer your works.
1
Schedule your intake call
A 30-minute call to go over your catalog, your PRO affiliation, and your MLC account setup. This is required before Doom Tide can begin administering your works.
Schedule on Cal.com
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Add Doom Tide as a super-user on your MLC account
This allows Doom Tide to register your works, claim your shares, and resolve any discrepancies on your behalf at The MLC.
Step-by-step instructions:
1. Log into portal.themlc.com
2. Go to Settings in the left sidebar
3. Click Users then Invite User
4. Enter email: hello@doomtide.co
5. Set role to Super User
6. Click Send Invitation
2. Go to Settings in the left sidebar
3. Click Users then Invite User
4. Enter email: hello@doomtide.co
5. Set role to Super User
6. Click Send Invitation
3
Confirm your PRO affiliation
Doom Tide needs to know which PRO administers your performance royalties in order to register your works correctly. If you are not yet affiliated with a PRO, this will be discussed on your intake call.
4
Letter of Direction (LOD) — Doom Tide will prepare this for you
A Letter of Direction is a signed document you send to your PRO (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, etc.) authorizing Doom Tide to act as your administrator — to register works, dispute incorrect claims, audit statements, and communicate with the PRO on your behalf. Without an LOD on file, the PRO won’t share account data with us or accept registrations we file. Your royalties continue to flow directly to your existing PRO account — Doom Tide never receives your royalty money. The term “Direction” is industry shorthand; in our model the LOD grants administrative authority, it does not redirect payment.
You do not need to prepare this yourself. After your intake call, Doom Tide will draft your LOD using the correct language and format for your specific PRO, review it with you, and guide you through submitting it. This is part of your Full Administration service.
You do not need to prepare this yourself. After your intake call, Doom Tide will draft your LOD using the correct language and format for your specific PRO, review it with you, and guide you through submitting it. This is part of your Full Administration service.
What to expect:
1. Complete your intake call with Doom Tide
2. Doom Tide drafts your LOD tailored to your PRO
3. You review and sign the LOD
4. You submit it directly to your PRO member portal
5. Your PRO recognizes Doom Tide as your administrator
2. Doom Tide drafts your LOD tailored to your PRO
3. You review and sign the LOD
4. You submit it directly to your PRO member portal
5. Your PRO recognizes Doom Tide as your administrator
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Upload your most recent royalty statements
Upload your latest PRO and MLC statements so Doom Tide can establish a baseline and identify any unclaimed royalties. PDF or CSV files accepted.
Accounting schedule
Once your account is active, please upload statements on this schedule so Doom Tide can calculate and invoice your commission fee promptly.
MLC statements
Mechanical royalties for streaming and downloads
Monthly
Upload by the 20th of each month
PRO statements
Performance royalties from BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR, etc.
Quarterly
Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
Profile
Break up with your existing publishing administrator.
Three letters, one signature each, all of them addressed and identifier-attached. After they're out, the roadmap below covers how to step into the administrator seat yourself.
Not legal advice.
Doom Tide provides template letters based on standard administration-agreement terms. Your specific agreement may have non-standard notice periods, post-termination tails, or surviving carve-outs that affect the timing or scope of your termination. Review your executed agreement — or consult counsel — before sending. Doom Tide is not your attorney.
Need a hand from a human first? Email hello@doomtide.co — we'll talk through your specific situation before you send anything.
Money
Statements archive.
Every royalty statement we've received on your behalf, reconciled and stored. Filter by source, period, status, or year; export to CSV. Click any row to see the line-item breakdown.
Every royalty statement you've uploaded, organized and searchable. Filter by source, period, or year; export the list to CSV. Click any row to see the file.
New uploads are reviewed by Doom Tide within 3 business days; your commission fee is calculated and invoiced after each review. Your statement files are securely backed up.
Self-Admin means these statements are yours to manage. Upload as you receive them — from BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR, the MLC, or anywhere else royalties land. Doom Tide stores the files, builds a searchable archive, and never takes a cut.
Upload a statement
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Tap to upload or drag and drop
PDF, CSV, TSV, XLSX, or photo of a paper statement — max 25MB
Uploaded statements
Complete history. Filter by source, period, year, or status; sort any column.
Money
Data Doom.
Forensic AI scan of any statement you've uploaded. Catches third-party publishers collecting royalties that should be coming to you — with exact dollar amounts and song lists. The forensic work no human wants to do.
Money
Royalty recoveries.
Log payments received on your behalf — by source, period, and entity. The running total tells you what's been recovered to date.
Track royalties received — by source, period, and song. The running total tells you what's hit the account to date. Doom Tide doesn't take a cut here.
Total collected
$0
Doom Tide fee (20%)
$0
Net to you
$0
Nothing logged yet. Royalty line items appear here as Doom Tide reconciles your incoming statements — first dollars typically land within a quarter of your first statement upload.
Nothing logged yet. As royalty payments hit your account, log them here to keep a running ledger of what's been recovered.
Money
Invoices from Doom Tide.
Service invoices sent to you. Full Admin commission, Self-Admin license, anything else. Click to download the PDF.
No invoices yet.
Invoices appear here when Doom Tide sends them. Unpaid invoices include a Pay Now button.
Invoices appear here when Doom Tide sends them. Unpaid invoices include a Pay Now button.
Operator / Conflicts
Where the registries don't agree.
Never scanned.
Dismissed and resolved
Ops
Cross-checked against source.
Cross-checks each work in a client’s catalog against MLC and PRO source-of-truth records. Surfaces unregistered works, missing identifiers, and (for MLC) unmatched royalty exposure on Spotify. Upload a member catalog export from MLC, BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, or GMR to run.
Audit runs
0
Entities audited
0
Works flagged
0
unmatched + partial
Orphan Spotify ISRCs
0
tracks not in any work
Recent audit runs
No audits run yet. Click Run new audit to upload a client’s member catalog export.
Ops
A writer’s receipts.
Cross-references a single songwriter’s BMI Songview catalog, MLC Public Search results, and Spotify recordings. Surfaces registration coverage gaps, partial writer-share matches, admin-chain gaps, and orphan recordings. Produces a Doom Tide-branded PDF for the writer (client or prospect).
Total audits
0
Clients
0
Prospects
0
HIGH findings
0
across all runs
Recent audits
No audits yet. Click Run new audit to start one — works on a current client or a prospect you’re evaluating.
Ops
Product–market fit.
The Sean Ellis read: the share of writers who’d be very disappointed to lose Doom Tide. 40%+ is the product–market-fit line. Scored separately for Self-Admin and Full Admin — they’re different products. At this sample size the written answers below are the real signal.
Overall score
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no responses
Self-Admin
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no responses
Full Admin
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no responses
Responses
No responses yet.
Operator / Overview
What needs your attention.
Total clients
0
— →
Works under admin
0
0 recordings →
Verified members
0
of 0 total →
Pending works
0
unregistered or unsplit →
Statements to review
0
in the queue →
Open tasks
0
open gaps and tasks →
Full Admin requests
0
awaiting conversion →
Outstanding invoices
0
$0.00 due →
Critical conflicts
0
critical + high →
Awaiting MAA
0
all Full Admin clients signed →
Active migrations
0
no migrations in flight →
Self-Admin migrations
0
no Self-Admin migrations in flight →
Warm leads
0
no opted-in leads yet →
Pipeline
0
no prospects yet →
FTC audit
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checking… →
Field note · operator overview
"Pending works and open tasks are the two numbers that age fastest. Triage them first; everything else compounds slower."
Operator
Open action items.
Open gaps and action items across your Full Admin clients. Mark Done when you’ve completed an action; Archive to dismiss. Re-running an audit auto-resolves tasks whose underlying finding has been fixed.
Open
0
In progress
0
Done
0
Auto-resolved
0
No tasks. Run an audit to generate action items.
Operator
Every account on the platform.
Every Self-Admin and Full Admin client. View-As to operate inside their workspace.
No clients yet.
Pipeline
Full Admin intake queue.
Self-serve intake from the in-app new-workspace flow. Convert to a client after the intro call + signed agreement.
Pending Full Admin requests (0)
No pending Full Admin requests right now.
Pipeline
Inbound Perks applications.
Published partner roster + inbound applications.
Published partners (0)
In-discussion partners are invisible to members until activated.
Redemption activity (0 events)
Per-partner click counts. Use these for the quarterly partner review.
Inbound applications (0)
Pending review first. Reply within ~14 days either way.
Pipeline
Active referrers.
Unpaid bounties + active referrers. Pay out via Venmo/Zelle, then record here.
Referrer payouts
Unpaid bounties grouped by referrer. After you Venmo/Zelle them, record the payout here for the audit trail.
Referrers (0)
Pending W-9 first, then active.
Pipeline
Bands worth pitching.
Referrer-submitted artists, scored by the daily run. Approve to tell the scout to go pitch; reject to clear it out.
Suggestions (0)
New + enriched first, then decided.
Pipeline
Songs put forward.
Tracks clients put up for the Doom Tide playlists. Listen, decide, move on.
Playlist submissions (0)
Tracks clients put up for the Doom Tide playlists.
Pipeline · v1 (legacy)
Reckoning leads.
Inbound Royalty Reckoning scans. Each entry is an artist + email that ran the diagnostic. Sort by estimated recoverable to find the warm leads.
Scans (0)
Click an email to start a follow-up reply. Per-row Delete removes the lead; Clear all wipes everything (useful during methodology iteration).
Pipeline / Reckonings · v2
What just walked in.
Last 24h
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This week
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OK to call
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Via referrer
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Est. recoverable
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All · 0
Last 24h · 0
OK to call · 0
Via referrer · 0
High est. ($10K+) · 0
New · 0
Royalty · 0
Catalog · 0
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last full reconcile: on-demand · refresh from sidebar
Pipeline · Public diagnostic
Data Doom leads.
Inbound Data Doom runs from doomtide.co/data-doom. Each entry is a person who uploaded a statement and got back a forensic report. Sort by total routed dollars to find the warm leads — the prospects who have documented evidence of leakage and now know it.
0 runs · 0 opted in · $0.00 total detected leakage
No Data Doom runs yet. They show up here as soon as the first visitor uploads a statement on doomtide.co/data-doom.
Operations · Sales
Warm Leads pipeline.
Active sales conversations across both service tiers — Full Administration and the $250 lifetime Self-Admin tier. Use the toggle to filter. Each card shows its tier, source attribution (Reckoning leads, Data Doom leads, referrals, direct inbound), the latest note, and the next action. Opted-in Royalty Reckoning leads auto-funnel in as new Leads. Move cards through the five stages as the conversation progresses. Onboarded prospects flip out into the client roster; lost prospects keep their notes on file for the audit trail.
0 active prospects · 0 scheduled · 0 proposal · 0 contract pending
No prospects in the pipeline yet. Add one manually or click "Add to pipeline" on a warm Reckoning lead.
Operations · Sales
Sales Team.
Sales reps get a portal scoped to their own assigned leads — My Leads, the Glossary, and the Guides, nothing else. Invite a rep here, then wire lead lists into their account from the Warm Leads pipeline or the Sales MCP. Credit for a closed deal is tied to whoever held the lead when it onboarded.
0 reps · 0 active · 0 open leads
No sales reps yet. Invite one to start assigning leads.
Operations · Staff
Tacticians.
Your Tacticians are staff with access to assigned Full Admin clients — they handle the moves at the PROs and the MLC so a writer doesn't have to learn the labyrinth themselves. Assignments are explicit; each client is visible to operator + their assigned Tactician only.
0 Tacticians · 0 active · 0 total assignments
No Tacticians yet. Invite one to start delegating Full Admin work.
Staff two-factor
Who’s covered, who isn’t.
Two-factor authentication state for every staff account. Recovery codes burn on use — if a count drops to zero, that staff member is one lost device away from being locked out. Force re-enrollment to clear factors when someone loses their phone.
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Catalog
Every work, across every client.
Every work across every client. Search by title, ISRC, ISWC, MLC code, artist, or songwriter last name.
Bulk-add works to a client catalog
Pick a Full Admin client and pull their works from Spotify. Tracks dedupe by ISRC against the existing catalog, you set default writer and publisher splits, and imported works land unattested for sample review.
Catalog search
Type to search across all client catalogs.
0 works · 0 clients
Group by
Type to search, or switch to Artist or Songwriter to browse.
Operations · Exports for Admin
Export registration files for any Full Admin client.
Download the PRO and MLC bulk-registration CSVs and the Schedule A attachment for any Full Admin client on the roster. Self-Admin clients drive their own exports from their catalog page — they aren’t listed here. Click a row to expand the per-client controls.
Ops
Statements waiting to land.
Sorted oldest first. Green ≤1 day, amber 2–3 days, red 4+ days (over self-imposed SLA).
Statements awaiting review
0 awaiting · 0 over SLA
Every statement has two paths
Generate invoice
Drafts, finalizes, and emails a Stripe invoice to the client. Use for normal earnings the client owes commission on.
Skip invoice
Marks the statement handled, no Stripe invoice created. Use for historical statements, anything already billed outside the platform, or any upload that just needs to feed the client's Royalties dashboard.
Queue cleared.
No statements awaiting operator review. New uploads from Full Admin clients land here automatically and stay until you mark them reviewed.
Money
Royalty analysis.
Forensic read on your royalty statements. MLC TSV goes through deterministic per-row math (per-DSP effective rate, payable-percent mismatches, missing DSPs). PRO PDFs (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR) go through AI extraction for the same flavor of analysis — effective rates by source, anomaly flags, missing markets. Different from Data Doom — that one tells you who’s collecting; this one tells you whether the math is right.
Forensic read on your royalty statements — per-source effective rates, anomaly flags, missing markets, per-song earnings. Works on MLC TSVs (deterministic math) and PRO PDFs (AI-mediated extraction). Doom Tide runs this analysis on every statement received on your behalf. Findings live on your Statements page. Email hello@doomtide.co to request a re-run on a specific period.
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Doom Tide handles this for you
Every MLC royalty_detail TSV that lands for your catalog gets run through this analysis before the statement is marked reviewed. Per-DSP effective rates, anomaly flags, and per-song earnings are checked against expected ranges. If something looks off, Doom Tide flags it and works with The MLC to correct it before the period closes.
Where to get the TSV. Sign in to your MLC member portal → Statements → Royalty Distributions → click the period → download the Royalty Detail file. It comes as a .tsv. You can analyze multiple periods at once — this tool combines them and runs the analysis across the full range.
Pick from your saved statements
recommended
Any MLC TSV or PRO PDF you’ve already uploaded to Statements shows up here. Pick one or more and run.
No saved statements yet. Drop a fresh file below, or upload one on the Statements page first.
Or upload a fresh statement
drag, drop, run
📎
Click to choose files or drag statements here
Accepts MLC TSV · PRO PDF (BMI / ASCAP / SESAC / GMR) · CSV · XLSX. Up to 10 files, 50 MB total.
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Pick a saved statement or upload a fresh one above. MLC TSV gets the deterministic math; PRO PDFs get AI extraction. Both surface per-source effective rates, anomaly flags, and missing markets.
Ops
Every statement, ever.
Cross-client archive of every statement processed. Filter by client, source, period, or status. Use this to answer “when was the last BMI statement for Margot?” without bouncing between workspaces.
Search and filter
0 of 0 shown
· $0.00 gross
No statements match the current filters.
Ops
Money coming in.
Every payment in — Full Admin commission invoices (open, paid, voided, failed) and Self-Admin lifetime licenses. Filter by status; the outstanding total stays pinned.
All payments
0 open · $0.00 outstanding
No payments yet.
Ops
What’s due when.
Every recurring obligation Doom Tide carries — taxes, licenses, insurance, infrastructure. Sorted overdue first. Filing one auto-advances its next date by the cadence.
Ops
What's on file.
Every Full Admin client's Master Administration Agreement, with execution status and a direct line to the signed PDF. Tier badge shows the rate they agreed to; version tag flags template drift since execution.
Executed
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on file
Out for signature
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HelloSign envelopes pending
Pending
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never sent
Stale template
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executed vs. current
Ops
What you can safely draw.
Cash on hand, minus tax reserve, minus the next 90 days of obligations, minus an operating buffer. Recommendation only — you make the transfer.
Safe to distribute
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Cash on hand
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Tax reserve
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Upcoming 90 days
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Operating buffer
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Tax reserve breakdown (YTD)
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Recent owner draws
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Ops
What you paid for.
Business expenses paid from personal cards — the receipts Mercury doesn’t see. Tracking them here drops your tax reserve and gives your accountant a clean Schedule C trail.
YTD total
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Pending reimbursement
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Reimbursed
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Top category
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Ops
Same song, everyone's catalog.
Upload one client's MLC or PRO catalog export and the system propagates the verifiable identifiers (ISWC, Song Code, writer IPIs, ISRCs) across matching works in every other client's catalog. Co-written songs get the same metadata everywhere they live. Additive only — existing values are never overwritten. An MLC Match History export works too: it records each recording's match result — approved recordings advance to the matched MLC stage, rejected ones are flagged for resubmission — scoped to the client who submitted it.
Step 1 · Upload
Which client this export came from. Used for the audit log only — matches still propagate to every client's catalog by default, including this one.
CSV or Excel from any of the four MLC catalog formats, an MLC Match History export, or a PRO export. File type is detected by content, not extension — files named like "202288" with no extension are fine. PDF exports are not supported — re-download as CSV or Excel.
Ops
Get them back.
Every client’s migration state from a prior administrator. Click any row to open the migration manager inline — pick a prior admin, filter works by artist or songwriter, tag the ones that need terminating, and generate termination notices, Letters of Relinquishment, and Letters of Direction. Royalties always flow direct to the songwriter — Doom Tide never custodies. Letters reflect that.
Live performance
Every show you played.
Log the shows you play so you or a bandmate can submit them to BMI Live, ASCAP OnStage, and SESAC Live. Independent touring writers leave thousands of dollars a year unclaimed because nobody self-reports — this tool helps you claim what you are owed.
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Log tonight’s show
Fast venue-mode entry. Today’s date pre-filled, recent venues surfaced, one-tap to apply a saved setlist.
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Import past shows from Setlist.fm
Pull every setlist on record for your artist. Review the list, deselect anything that's wrong, and import shows with their setlists already attached. Best for back-filling tour history.
Open import →
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Bulk add a tour
Plan an upcoming tour as a list of dates + venues, optionally apply a saved setlist template to every date in one move. Best for upcoming tours where you know the venues already.
Plan a tour →
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Add a single performance
Log one show by hand. Step through date, venue, setlist, and per-PRO submission status. Best for one-off shows or anything Setlist.fm doesn't have on file.
Log a show →
Resources · Perks
Who we hang with.
A curated set of discounts and services from companies aligned with how Doom Tide thinks about the work — independent or worker-owned, musician-focused, environmentally serious. Each partner is selected against those standards before they show up here.
Have a company in mind that fits the ethos? Email hello@doomtide.co with a one-line nomination. We read every one, even when the answer is no.
How this directory works
Perks Partners are independent businesses. Doom Tide curates the list but is not a party to any transaction between you and a partner — we don’t sell, fulfill, hold funds, verify professional licenses, or guarantee a partner’s services. Curation is editorial selection, not professional advice. A dispute about a partner’s product or service is between you and the partner directly.
Full terms →
Resources · Referrer program
Refer & earn.
Get paid to tell other independent songwriters about Doom Tide. $50 per paid signup you bring in. Self-Admin or Full Admin — doesn’t matter, if they pay, you get paid.
The deal
$50 per paid signup. Paid monthly via your preferred method.
You sign up as a referrer, we run your W-9 process, you share a unique URL (app.doomtide.co/?ref=your-code), and we pay $50 every time someone who clicked your link completes a paid Doom Tide signup. Bounties pay monthly. Track your conversions in your private referrer portal — including an anonymized leaderboard so you can see how you stack up against other referrers.
New applicant
Apply to become a referrer
Takes about three minutes. You fill out the form, we email you a W-9, you sign it and send it back, and your code goes live.
Already a referrer?
Open your portal
Track conversions, see pending bounty, copy your sharing URL, view the anonymized leaderboard. Sign-in required.
How it works
01
Apply
Submit the signup form. Pick a referral code (lowercase letters, digits, hyphen, underscore).
02
Sign your W-9
We email you an IRS Form W-9. Sign it, send it back. The platform never stores your SSN.
03
Share
You get an activation email with your sharing URL. Disclose the paid relationship whenever you recommend Doom Tide.
04
Get paid
$50 per paid conversion (Self-Admin or first Full Admin invoice). Monthly payout via Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, PayPal, or check.
A few honest caveats. The bounty is real but the program isn’t a marketing channel for paid ads — we want friends and peers telling friends and peers. Free signups don’t count; only paid conversions do. FTC rules require you to disclose the paid relationship whenever you recommend Doom Tide. The program is offered at Doom Tide’s discretion and may be paused or modified with notice — though bounties already earned are honored at the rate in effect when earned. Read the full Partner Agreement before signing up.
Resources · Playlist submissions
Put a song forward.
Put a song forward for the Doom Tide Spotify and Apple Music playlists. Pick one work at a time, write a sentence if you want to, and we’ll listen.
Every song submitted gets listened to by a person.
No algorithmic scoring. No queue-triage by submission count. Someone sits with each track. If we add it, we add it. If we don’t, that’s not a verdict on the work — it just means it doesn’t fit the current rotation. Doom Tide’s playlists are curated narrowly on purpose: what we’re actually listening to right now, not a representative sample of what’s good. A song we love but skip this round may show up six months later when the shape of the playlist shifts.
Submit a track
One submission per week per account. Pick a work from your administered catalog.
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Resources · Reference
How this actually works.
Plain-language reference for the mechanics of music rights administration. These guides live separately from your daily workflow because they're meant to be re-read — bookmark them and come back when something doesn't make sense yet. Each one is short, forensic, and on the same page as you.
All royalty streams
How royalties actually flow
Every song has two sides. The master is the recording — the audio file. The composition is the song underneath — the lyrics, melody, and chord changes. Different identifiers track each side. Different collectors pay each side. The same person can hold both.
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Master side
The recording itself
Owned by whoever paid for it — usually the artist or label. Tracked by ISRC.
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Composition side
The song underneath
Owned by the writer(s). Tracked by ISWC. The MLC and the PROs collect on this side.
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| Sales & streams Spotify, Apple, Bandcamp |
PRO performance BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR |
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| What it pays for | The sale or stream of your recording — downloads, Bandcamp purchases, Spotify and Apple Music streams. | Public performance of the song — terrestrial radio, TV, interactive streaming, live venues, restaurants. | U.S. mechanical reproduction of the song — interactive streams and downloads on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, etc. |
| Tracked by | ISRC | ISWC + work title |
ISWC + MLC Song Code
Recordings (ISRCs) get matched to the work inside the MLC portal — no match, no payout.
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| Who collects | Your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby) or Bandcamp. | Your PRO — BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, or GMR. | The Mechanical Licensing Collective. |
| Writer share | — | 50% — paid to you, the writer. | Each writer’s share out of 100% on the writer side. Paid to whichever MLC member holds that writer registration — a self-administered songwriter, or their administrator. |
| Publisher share | — | 50% — paid to your publishing entity (or to you if self-published and registered). | Each publisher’s share out of 100% on the publisher side. Paid to whichever MLC member holds that publisher registration — a publishing entity, a sole-prop publishing company, or a self-administered songwriter doubling as their own publisher. |
| Master share | 100% to whoever owns the master (minus your distributor's cut). | — | — |
| Pays out | Monthly. 3–4 month lag from release to first payout. | Quarterly. 9–12 month lag from earning to payout. | Monthly or quarterly. Multi-month lag from stream to statement. |
The thing nobody draws clearly enough.
On the composition side, the writer share and publisher share are separate registrations. If you don’t sign up as a publisher at your PRO — and as a publishing entity at the MLC — the publisher half pools up and pays out to the largest publishers in the system. Self-published songwriters routinely leave half their PRO and mechanical royalties on the table by skipping this step. The PRO and MLC guides below walk through the exact registrations.
Performance royalties
PROs, in plain English
A Performance Rights Organization (PRO) collects performance royalties — the money generated when your songs are played in public. Radio, streaming, TV, live venues. Three concepts determine whether you actually get paid.
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Writer share vs. publisher share
Every performance royalty splits 50/50. The writer share goes to the songwriter (you). The publisher share goes to whoever owns the publishing. If you don't have a separate publishing entity, ASCAP and BMI both let you collect the publisher share too — but you have to register as a publisher explicitly. Otherwise the publisher share pools up and pays out to the largest publishers. This is the line nobody draws clearly enough; it's why half the people you know are leaving roughly half their performance royalties on the table.
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Which PRO?
In the U.S., the choices are BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and GMR. ASCAP and BMI are the major two; SESAC and GMR are smaller and invitation-only.
- ASCAP — writer and publisher signup in a single account, no annual fee, fastest path.
- BMI — writer signup is free, publisher signup is a separate $250 application. Slower onboarding, no annual fee on the writer side.
- SESAC and GMR — invitation only. Most indie songwriters won't qualify on day one.
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IPI numbers — two different ones
When you register with a PRO, you get an IPI (Interested Parties Information) number. If you sign up as both a writer and a publisher, you get two different IPIs — one for each role. People mix these up constantly. The writer-IPI goes on the writer side of every song registration; the publisher-IPI goes on the publisher side. Different numbers, sometimes referencing the same person with two roles. Doom Tide stores both separately under Settings.
The trap to avoid: don't register the same work at two PROs.
Pick one PRO and register all of your works there. If a co-writer is at a different PRO, that's fine — they register their share at their PRO, you register yours at yours. Same work, different writer shares routed through different PROs. What you can't do is register the same work as yourself at both PROs — that triggers a dispute queue and pays nothing until resolved.
Mechanical royalties
The MLC, in three moves
The Mechanical Licensing Collective is where you collect mechanical royalties from U.S. streaming services. Setting up the account is the easy part. Three operations come after, and the order matters.
Before you set up the account
Are you collecting just for yourself, or on behalf of a group?
If solo, you register as an individual songwriter — faster, fewer fields. If you're collecting for a band or collective with multiple writers, you need a publishing entity name first (most bands use the band name). The MLC account structure forks here and changing it later is annoying. Decide before you start.
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Claim
Some of your works are already in the MLC's database — usually because a co-writer registered them. Your job is to find those works in the MLC public search, identify yourself as a writer, and claim your share. The paperwork is done; you're putting your name on the public registry for that work.
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Register
Works not yet in the MLC database have to be uploaded. This is what Doom Tide's MLC export builds for you — a CSV in the format the MLC accepts. Once a work lands, the MLC assigns it a unique MLC Song Code. Initial processing typically takes 1–3 business days (and usually longer, in our experience). There's no need to worry if you don't see the song in your catalog right away. If a month goes by and you don't see it in your catalog, get in touch with the MLC directly.
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Match
Registration alone doesn't pay. The MLC also needs recordings (ISRCs) matched to the registered work. Inside the MLC portal there's a Matching Tool that surfaces unmatched recordings; you link each one to the correct work. No match, no money — even on a work that's fully registered. It's also a good idea to periodically review the recordings for each work to make sure everything is in order. Often, the recordings are grouped in such a way that major platforms like Spotify and Apple Music aren't included. Use the tools found within Doom Tide to make sure your statements are in order and that correct matching is reflected in your statements.
Don't skip this — you won't get paid without it.
The MLC needs your banking info and a tax form (W-9 for U.S. writers, W-8BEN for non-U.S.) before it sends a single dollar. Add these under Payments in your MLC profile, right after the account is open. Songwriters routinely wait months for payouts they technically already earned because this step got left for "later." Do it the same day you create the account.
Leaving a prior administrator
Three letters, in order.
If you signed up with a third-party publishing administrator and you want out, the reclaim happens through three pieces of paper. None of these letters are optional, and the order matters — skipping a step or doing them out of sequence is the most common way songwriters end up with royalties stuck in someone else's account for years.
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Termination Notice
Who gets it: your prior administrator, sent to an email that you have with them. It's also not a terrible idea to send this letter to their legal address via certified mail with return receipt. To streamline the process, we advise you to request them to reply with a Letter of Relinquishment as you send the termination letter. What it does: formally ends the administrative relationship as of the effective date. It does NOT immediately redirect your royalties — it only starts the clock. Most admin contracts have a notice period (30 days before annual renewal is common) and a tail provision (12–24 months where the prior admin keeps collecting on works already registered). The termination notice is what makes those clocks start running.
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Letter of Relinquishment (LOR)
Who issues it: the prior administrator, to you (and often to each collection society as well). You request it after the termination notice goes out; the prior admin is contractually obligated to provide one. What it does: formally confirms that the prior admin no longer holds administrative authority over the listed works as of the stated effective date. Some collection societies (ASCAP in particular) require the LOR before they'll process your Letter of Direction — without it, the publisher reassignment stalls. The LOR also lists every sub-publisher the prior admin used in foreign territories, so you can send corresponding LODs internationally. For the writer assuming control: the LOR is the document that makes the reclaim defensible if the prior admin later tries to claim royalties they shouldn't — it's the receipt that proves the handoff happened. Keep a copy in your records permanently.
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Letter of Direction (LOD)
Who gets it: each collection society where your works are registered — BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR, and the MLC. One letter per society. What it does: instructs the society to change the publisher of record on a specific list of works from the prior admin to you (or to your new publishing entity). This is the letter that actually redirects future earnings into your account. Effective dates depend on the society: BMI typically processes in 30–90 days; ASCAP uses calendar-year boundaries unless the prior admin cooperates; the MLC takes 60–120 days. Without an LOD on file, royalties keep flowing to the prior admin even after termination — this is the single most common point of leakage.
The order matters.
Termination Notice first (starts the clock). Then request the Letter of Relinquishment (gives you the document the societies need). Then file Letters of Direction at each society (redirects the actual money). Doing this out of sequence is how songwriters end up with stuck reclaim cases for years. Doom Tide generates each letter for you with the correct merge fields once your covered works are tagged on First Moves — that's what Phase B of the migration workflow is for.
More guides coming as the platform grows. Got a question that should have a guide and doesn't? Email hello@doomtide.co.
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The vocabulary, defined.
Plain-language definitions for the terms that come up in music rights administration — royalty types, identifiers (ISRC, ISWC, IPI), industry actors (PROs, the MLC), and Doom Tide-specific concepts (Schedule A, Self-Admin vs Full Administration). Search the list to jump to a term.
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Your PRO (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR) assigns you two IPI numbers — one for you as a writer and one for your publishing entity (often a sole-proprietorship publishing company you register with the PRO). Both are person-level — the same across every song you write. Capture each name as it appears on the PRO record so registrations match exactly.
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- Open app.doomtide.co in Safari (not Chrome — Apple only delivers push notifications to Safari-installed PWAs on iOS).
- Tap the Share button at the bottom of Safari (the square with an upward arrow).
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- Come back to this Account page and tap "Enable push notifications". iOS will ask for permission — allow it.
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- Open app.doomtide.co in Chrome or Samsung Internet.
- You may see an "Install app" banner at the bottom of the screen — tap it. If not, tap the three-dot menu and choose "Install app" or "Add to Home Screen".
- Confirm the install. The Doom Tide icon now appears on your home screen.
- Open Doom Tide from the home screen icon.
- Tap "Enable push notifications" above — Chrome will ask for permission, allow it. Done.
Why install first? On phones, push notifications only work for installed apps — browser tabs can’t receive them reliably. Once installed, Doom Tide runs full-screen without browser chrome and can wake your phone for new statements, invoices, or conflict alerts.
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