Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

The Black Box 🗃️

22 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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European music royalties pile up unclaimed because songs lack proper registration. Songwriters need ISRC, UPC, and ISWC codes to claim their money. Without them, earnings sit in a black box and never reach creators.

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What is the black box? It's, it's so topical right now. If you could explain to us what that is, and I'm trying to say it without smiling.
It is literally my existence. Yes. So the black box is, it's very popular in Europe. Um, you know, that's kind of where most of it, you know, those European dollars that are collected and nobody signs up and nobody knows. So you have to to literally make sure that your song is registered, you have an ISRC code, you have UPC code, you have, you know, if you're doing it as a songwriter, as you're writing with someone, make sure that you know what that UPC is, make sure you know what that ISRC code is, make sure when it's registered and an ISWC code is, ISWC is the world, right?