Catalog Health Scorecard — Is Your Catalog Ready for Market? | CatalogIQ

Is Your Music Catalog Ready for the Market?

Before you list a catalog for sale or approach a buyer, you need an honest read on where it stands. The Catalog Health Scorecard asks 8 questions that cover the areas buyers care about most: revenue consistency, rights documentation, metadata quality, and market positioning. It takes about two minutes.

Your score tells you whether your catalog is market-ready, needs some cleanup, or has issues that would stall a deal. Most catalog owners overestimate their readiness. Common gaps include missing songwriter splits, unregistered works at PROs, and gaps in collection across territories.

What the Scorecard Measures

The assessment covers eight dimensions. Revenue stability looks at whether your royalty income is growing, flat, or declining over the last three years. Rights clarity checks if you have clean chain-of-title documentation for every song. Metadata health evaluates whether your ISRCs, ISWCs, and songwriter credits are registered correctly across platforms.

It also scores your catalog's genre concentration risk, geographic revenue spread, sync licensing history, and how well your publishing admin handles collections. Each area maps directly to what a buyer's due diligence team will examine during a catalog acquisition.

What to Do With Your Score

A high score means you can move toward a valuation conversation with confidence. A medium score points you to specific areas to fix first, things that will directly increase your sale price if you address them before going to market. A low score doesn't mean your catalog is worthless. It means there's upside you're leaving on the table by not cleaning things up.

No email required. Get your score instantly and see exactly where your music catalog stands today.