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Analytics now covers every store that reports a feed, with honest per-platform availability, social and UGC surfaces, and API and MCP access to the numbers.

A working setup for managing releases and royalties with an AI assistant: the weekly workflow, the prompts that work, and how to connect live catalog data safely.

The LabelGrid MCP server is here: connect Claude, Cursor, or any AI assistant to your account and work your catalog in natural language, from drafts to royalties.

From Korea, global reach is the easy half and the domestic platforms are the route-dependent one. How artists and labels release music worldwide and at home, and which Korean services a distributor like LabelGrid actually reaches.

Asia is a set of local-champion platforms, not one global feed. How labels reach the QQ Music ecosystem, NetEase, FLO, AWA, KKBOX and JioSaavn through a distributor.

A label outside the US reaches every major DSP on the same rails a US label uses. What changes is rights by territory, cross-currency payouts, and metadata.

Royalty splits decide who gets paid what when a track earns. A label owner's guide to master-side splits, contract vs platform, recoupment, and setup.

Integrating a music distribution API means ingesting a catalog, validating metadata, delivering to DSPs, and reading royalties back. A practical developer walkthrough.

A practical, hype-free guide to starting a record label in 2026: what a label does, how to set up the business, sign artists, distribute music, and handle royalties.