Indie Music Spotlight: Infinite Catalog
This latest A2IM spotlight is shining on one of the most exciting (or not) and very necessary tools in the independent’s bag: a royalty accounting software and service that makes the process easier for catalogs and more transparent for creators.
By Infinite Catalog and posted on A2IM.
Who we are
Royalties are a challenge for both sides of the split, so a label and an artist teamed up to create Infinite Catalog, a royalty accounting software + service that makes the process easier for catalogs and more transparent for creators.
Record labels, publishers, managers, and creator businesses of all shapes and sizes use our tools + expertise to simplify royalties so they can grow their catalogs, keep everyone in the loop, and get everybody paid.
How we’re different
If you’ve ever done royalties in spreadsheets (or with another royalty software) you know there’s a lot of room for improvement… here’s how we’re making our catalogs’ (and their creators’ (and their creators’ business managers’)) lives better:
- Account for Anything – Manage digital, physical, publishing, merch, rights, or any kind of income, expense, or advance, all in one place. It doesn’t even have to be music.
- Built for Building – Do more deals, add new income sources, create more opportunity. Keep up with the changing landscape – without creating new accounting headaches.
- Catalog Services – Dedicated and experienced royalty accountants to help you onboard, customize, and automate your accounting to the fullest extent possible – at no extra cost.
- Data for All – Creators get access to balances, statements, and all the data that goes into them, plus the tools to analyze it all themselves. It’s their data too!
- Priced for Everyone – Every catalog gets every feature, creator access, and unlimited everything – with no per-user fees.
- Ledgers – Track multiple & distinct balances for the same payee – all on the same statement.
- Profits, Shared – No accounting skills required. Easy for catalogs, easy for creators.
- Contracts, Simplified – Just add Payees, Splits, and optional Ledgers.
- Quick Setup – Automatically map your catalog from Spotify, and create new Artists, Releases and Contracts in seconds.
- Metadata, Sorted – Match variations once and you’re done.
- Mechanicals, Reserves, and PPD – Flexible tools to automate, calculate and account in whatever way you need, in just a few clicks.
About A2IM:
A2IM is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization headquartered in New York City that exists to support and strengthen the independent recorded music sector. Membership currently includes a broad coalition of more than 700 Independently-owned American music labels. A2IM represents these independently owned small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) interests in the marketplace, in the media, on Capitol Hill, and as part of the global music community. In doing so, it supports a key segment of America’s creative class that represents America’s diverse musical cultural heritage. Billboard Magazine identified the Independent music label sector as 37.32 percent of the music industry’s U.S. recorded music sales market in 2016 based on copyright ownership, making Independent labels collectively the largest music industry sector.
