The US Mechanical Licensing Collective is currently sitting on more than $424 million in unmatched "black box" royalties, money owed to songwriters and publishers that can't be paid out because the metadata linking a recording to its rights holders is missing or wrong. Historically, cumulative black box payouts have topped $1 billion. A single track can owe splits across the performer, songwriter, publisher, and producer, and across two entirely separate royalty systems (mechanical and performance rights), so one metadata mistake can quietly break the whole payout chain.
Add your audio, artwork, and release details. You'll also add every songwriter, producer, and featured artist on the track here.
We check your ISRC, UPC, songwriter, and publisher fields for completeness before anything goes out the door, the step most distributors skip.
Every collaborator you added gets registered against the release, so streaming and mechanical royalties route to the right person automatically.
Your release ships simultaneously to every platform you selected, packaged to each one's exact technical spec.
Each DSP independently reviews the release, typically taking one to seven business days. We recommend uploading two or more weeks ahead of your release date.
Your release goes live everywhere at once. Streaming and download activity is tracked by ISRC and routed to every registered payee, not just you.
One release from StreamWays reaches streaming, download, social, and regional platforms worldwide.
AI-generated tracks reportedly made up roughly 44% of Deezer's daily uploads by April 2026, and that share reportedly climbed past 50% by July 2026. Spotify has responded by removing over 75 million low-quality or spammy tracks from its catalog and rolling out new AI-labeling and impersonation policies. In a catalog that crowded, a reviewed, correctly-tagged release stands a better chance of being trusted by platforms, playlist editors, and fans alike, which is exactly why StreamWays reviews every upload before it goes out.
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