Independent artists often leave live performance royalties unclaimed simply because reporting every setlist is tedious, especially after years of touring. A new feature currently being tested by music administration platform Vollou aims to make that process far more automatic.
According to co-founder Callum Osborne, the company is testing a system that can — with an artist's permission — reconstruct an artist's live performance history by combining publicly available performance information with setlists and recordings found across the web.
The workflow begins by gathering an artist's concert history from online sources such as Bandsintown. Once performances have been identified, Vollou searches for publicly available setlists or recordings associated with each show. When a match is found, the platform converts that information into structured performance data that can be stored automatically.
Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the feature is its ability to work retrospectively. Artists do not have to manually recreate years of touring history, because Vollou is attempting to build a system that reconstructs performances dating back years by finding information that already exists online but has never been organized for royalty reporting.
For working musicians, that could mean recovering live performance information that might otherwise never be reported to performing rights organizations. While the feature is still in testing, it highlights a growing trend in music technology: using automation not simply to save time, but to uncover revenue opportunities hidden in existing data.
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