Music Business Operations

Independent artists lose money in the places
nobody is watching.

Nome House Studios is the back office for independent artists, managers, and labels — the royalty auditing, sync licensing, catalog management, and analytics work that determines whether a career is sustainable, and that almost nobody at this level has anyone doing.

See What We Do Royalty Audits →
15+
Documented royalty failure points checked in every audit
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Royalty streams reconciled: master, performance, mechanical
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Service areas, from rights administration to release analytics
What We Do

Four areas. One operating model.

Every one of these exists because a real client needed it and there was no one else doing it at their scale. They work independently — most clients start with one — but they compound when combined.

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Royalty Audits & Recovery

We cross-reference your streaming data against distributor statements, PRO reports, and collection society registrations to find money that was earned but never paid. Distributor withholding, copyright flags freezing payments, split discrepancies, unregistered mechanicals. You get a findings report and dispute-ready letters.

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Sync Licensing

Representation for film, television, advertising, and games. One-stop, pre-cleared, with documented splits and control percentages per track — so a music supervisor gets a yes in hours, not a week of chasing rights holders. Clearance readiness is the product; the pitch is the easy part.

Currently representing indie rock, indie pop, and producer catalogs.

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Analytics & Release Planning

Cross-platform performance data, pulled and reported so artists can actually use it — and hand it to a manager, label, or brand partner on request instead of screenshotting one post at a time. Includes DMJ Sync Analytics, our reporting tool for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

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Catalog Management

Metadata, ISRC and ISWC linkage, registration across PROs, the MLC, SoundExchange and neighbouring rights societies, and the rights administration that determines whether a catalog is licensable or a liability. Built for labels and managers running multiple artists.

Available as ongoing retainer or one-time cleanup.

Who This Is For

Three kinds of people keep hiring us.

Different problems, same underlying gap: the operational work that major-label artists have entire departments for, and independent artists have nobody for.

Independent Artists

You're releasing consistently and something feels off — the streaming numbers don't match the payments, or a brand asked for your analytics and you didn't have a good answer. You need the back office you can't afford to hire full-time.

Managers

You have a roster on different distributors with different deal structures, and no realistic way to verify any of them are being paid correctly. You need per-artist diagnostics and reporting you can act on and forward.

Independent Labels

You have a catalog, multiple artists, and rights administration that has outgrown a spreadsheet. You need catalog operations, sync readiness, and sometimes purpose-built tooling that doesn't exist off the shelf.

Not sure which of these you need?

Most people start with one specific problem and discover it connects to two others. Tell us what's going on and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and if the answer is no, we'll say so.