- event type:WOMEX 26 Conference Session
- date:21 Oct 2026 - 25 Oct 2026
- time:12:00 - 12:00
- city/area:Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- venue:tba
- country:Spain
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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Chaired by
Jataneel Banerjee (India/UK), PRS for Music;
with
Stuart Fleming (UK), PRS for Music
Follow the money, and you quickly discover that it isn't taste or algorithms keeping many artists broke — it's broken metadata. In this fast-paced, ideas-driven session, we unpack how missing, messy or conflicting information about songs, recordings and creators silently blocks payments, misdirects royalties and erases credits. We'll trace a track's data journey from studio to stream, showing the exact points where things go wrong — especially for independents, niche genres and artists outside the major systems. Then we'll share clear, practical fixes: the key data you must get right, simple workflow changes, and the new industry initiatives that can turn better metadata into real money in your account.