For independent musicians, the lifeblood of touring often comes with a hidden cost: unclaimed live performance royalties. Years of tireless touring mean years of manually tracking setlists and recordings—a tedious task that frequently leaves crucial revenue opportunities on the table.
But what if that history could be instantly reconstructed? A new wave of music technology is stepping in to tackle this administrative headache, aiming to unlock valuable performance data hidden across the digital landscape.
Music administration platform Vollou is currently testing a groundbreaking system designed to automate and reconstruct an artist’s live performance history. The goal is simple: to make the process of tracking touring history far more automatic, ensuring artists receive the rightful compensation for their work.
How does this magic happen? The platform operates by gathering information from publicly available online sources, such as concert listings found on services like Bandsintown. It then cross-references this data with publicly accessible setlists and recordings discovered across the web.
When matches are found, Vollou transforms that raw information into structured performance data, allowing the system to automatically organize and store details that would otherwise be scattered and unreportable for performing rights organizations.
The most exciting feature of this innovation is its ability to work retrospectively. Artists no longer have to spend countless hours manually recreating years of touring history. Instead, Vollou attempts to build a system that digs into existing online information to reconstruct performances dating back years.
This means live performance details that might otherwise never have been reported to official bodies can now be uncovered and organized. For working musicians, this could mean recovering significant amounts of live performance information that was previously inaccessible.
This development highlights a major trend in music technology: using automation not just to save time, but to uncover tangible revenue opportunities hidden within existing digital data. It’s about turning scattered online noise into structured, actionable financial assets for the artists who create the music.
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