Last year I wrote about real issues to be found in the MLC’s dataset- an exploration of what was really sitting inside the industry's most transparent copyright dataset. The headline then: the MLC reported around 90% of royalty value matched, while our analysis showed only 22% of ISRCs had been attributed to any work- some 170 million of 217 million recordings sitting unlinked, with the long tail holding more recoverable money than the industry's hits-first workflows were eve

We’ve been exploring the MLC data since 2021. It’s not the only dataset we use at Fix, but it’s certainly one of the more fascinating. Here are five things the MLC data tells us that every publisher should know.