Product Release Notes September 2025

This month’s updates are all about keeping your royalties safe, your catalog clean, and deliver music the best way. From detecting artificial streams to archiving inactive releases, supporting multi-disc albums, streamlining client onboarding, and adding clearer financial insights—every update is designed to help you deliver music the right way and move your business forward.

Read on to learn more. 🚀

Trust & Safety: Artificial Streaming Dashboard

Artists, labels, distributors, DSPs, and even fans are all harmed by artificial streaming. As DSPs update their policies and enforce stricter reporting and takedowns, staying ahead is more important than ever. The new Artificial Streaming Dashboard (available to Revelator partners using our deals) gives you one place to track DSP-reported artificial activity and safeguard your catalog.

What’s New:

• Consolidated data: View artificial streaming reports from Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, and Amazon in one place.
• Artificial streams: Track the volume of streams DSPs have flagged as invalid.
• Flagged assets: See which tracks or releases DSPs have flagged for artificial activity.
• Filter & export: Drill down by DSP, market, track, or client and export CSVs for deeper analysis.

How it benefits you:

• Protect your catalog from takedowns and withheld royalties.
• Spot risks early and take action before they escalate.
• Gain clear visibility into which artists, labels, or releases are driving artificial activity.
• Reduce support overhead with a single source of truth across DSP reports.

Need more information? Read the Helpdesk guide →

Archiving: Keep Your Catalog Clean & Cost-Efficient

Our archiving feature lets you remove old or inactive releases, tracks, artists, or contributors from your daily workspace without losing their history. Archived items don’t count toward your billing thresholds, helping you stay organized and only pay for the content that’s truly active.

What’s New:

• Archive inactive catalog items: Safely move unwanted releases, tracks, artists, and contributors out of your active catalog.
• “Archived” filter: Use the dedicated filter in each section to review everything you’ve archived.
• Built-in guardrails: Active tracks or items still live on the DSPs cannot be archieved. A warning message will guide you on what to resolve first.
• Billing relief: Archived items do not count toward your release thresholds, so you only pay for your active content.

How it benefits you:

• Reduce costs: Pay only for active content. Archived items do not count toward billing thresholds.
• Declutter safely: Keep your active catalog tidy without risking broken links across releases, tracks, artists, and contracts.
• Stay organized: Quickly separate active releases from inactive ones for clearer catalog management.

Need a quick explainer? Read the FAQ →

Multi-Disc Albums: Now Delivered

Box sets, double albums, and legacy collections are now fully supported end-to-end. With Multi-Disc Album support, you can ingest and deliver releases with up to 10 discs without requiring any manual workarounds.

What’s New:

• Disc structure: Build albums with multiple discs, each with its own track order and numbering that resets from Track 1.
• One release, one UPC: Entire box sets are treated as a single album with a unique UPC, while each track can be delivered individually.
• DSP-ready formatting: Delivered to DSPs in line with DDEX standards, so your albums appear correctly on every platform.

How it benefits you:

• Distribute your full catalog: Distribute complex releases and legacy collections.
• Ensure accuracy: Multi-disc albums appear on DSPs exactly as intended, disc by disc.
• Save time: Skip manual workarounds and let us handle formatting automatically.

Delivering a box set? Read the Helpdesk guide →

Client Creation: Faster Setup, Clearer Terms

Onboarding your new clients just got a whole lot easier. You can now add yourself as an admin making client setup faster, smoother, and more flexible.

What’s New:

• Instant admin access: Add yourself as an admin to the client’s workspace during set-up. No extra steps required.
• Custom payout rates: Define the exact payout percentage for a new client during their setup. The system automatically generates the contract with your chosen rate.

How it benefits you:

• Streamline onboarding: Set permissions and financial terms at the same time you setup their account.
• Stay in control: Ensure you and your team have immediate access to support and collaborate with your new clients.
• Save time: Skip manual contract modifications or account permissions.

Onboarding a new client? Read the Helpdesk guide →

Compilations & Artist Credits: Smarter Metadata

Compilations and multi-artist projects don’t have to mean messy metadata. With our platform, the complexity is handled for you so your releases are correctly formatted and accepted by DSPs the first time.

What’s New:

• Compilation support: Mark a release as a compilation and add as many artists as needed. No need to use “Various Artists” when it doesn’t apply.
• Artist crediting: Revelator Pro automatically applies the right DSP rules, deciding when to display “Various Artists” vs. a main artist.
• Edge cases handled: From mixtapes and Best Of collections to tribute albums, your metadata is validated to match each DSP’s unique requirements.
• Consistent credits: Performing artists are properly aligned at both the track and release level, reducing rejections and re-deliveries.

How it benefits you:

• Faster delivery: Avoid DSP rejections and delays caused by crediting errors.
• Save time: Let the platform handle complex rules instead of doing manual actions.
• Better fan experience: Credits display correctly on DSPs, vastly improving discovery and visibility.

Need a quick explainer? Read the Helpdesk guide →

Account Activity: Clearer Finance at Your Fingertips

Royalty reporting can be complex, but visibility shouldn’t be. The new Account Activity page gives you a clear, transparent view of your royalty history and balances directly inside of the Finance page when using Revelator deals.

What’s New:

• Full visibility: Track all royalty statements, payments, and adjustments from Revelator distribution deals in one place.
• Balances & history: See your current balance alongside every transaction.
• Filters & search: Quickly narrow results by type or timeframe.

How it benefits you:

• Stay informed: Always know where your royalties stand.
• Save time: No need to request spreadsheets—your royalty data is ready for you.

Built for today’s music business

We’re always building new ways to help you work smarter, grow faster, and stay ahead.

These updates put more control in your hands — from protecting royalties and keeping catalogs clean, to paying artists faster and onboarding clients with clarity. Less time troubleshooting means more time growing your catalog, your artists, and your business.