New platform indexes more than 150 million song codes and aims to become the foundational attribution layer for the music industry, ensuring artists and creative professionals are accurately compensated
With more than $1 billion in royalties unclaimed every year, Credits.fm is helping solve a problem that is growing exponentially in the AI era
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NEW YORK, NY — June 30, 2026 — Notes.fm, the music rights infrastructure company helping musicians and music companies identify and collect 100% of their royalties, today announced the launch of Credits.fm, a free and open music credits database designed to help the music industry organize, verify, and connect the data powering royalties and artist compensation in the age of AI. As training royalties from licensed AI usages brings potentially significant new revenue streams to musicians in the years to come, the importance for correct attribution at the credits level becomes more critical than ever to ensure accurate compensation.
Credits.fm indexes more than 150 million song codes and credits across a growing network of music rights databases, collection societies, and registries. The platform is freely searchable across multiple domains including ISRC.fm, ISWC.fm, and IPI.fm and introduces open API + MCP functionality that allows developers and companies using AI tools including Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT to integrate verified music credits directly into their workflows.
The launch comes as the music business faces growing pressure to modernize the fragmented systems behind publishing, metadata, and royalty collection, with more than $1 billion in music royalties already going unclaimed annually. As AI platforms and generative music tools become more prevalent across the industry, the risk of an even larger royalty black box looms larger by the day.
“The music industry is entering a moment where attribution matters more than any other time in history,” said Tim Luckow, founder and CEO of Notes.fm and co-founder of Stem. “As AI systems become a bigger part of how music is discovered, created and monetized, there needs to be a more reliable way to connect songs back to the actual humans creating them so they are able to get paid. Better credits lead to better outcomes for the creative professionals making the music. With Credits.fm, we’re helping solve a decades-old problem at a time when it’s primed to get exponentially worse.”
In the past year alone, Notes.fm has already helped identify more than $10 million in previously unclaimed royalties across a broad range of artists and catalogs, including work connected to artists such as James Blake, Zach Bryan, Mt. Joy, and more.
While traditional metadata platforms have historically operated as static databases, Credits.fm is designed as an active infrastructure layer powering royalty discovery, attribution, registration, and future payments systems. The company describes Credits.fm as the “AWS layer” beneath Notes.fm, while Notes acts as the financial layer helping musicians identify, claim, and manage royalties.
The launch also reflects a broader shift happening across the music industry as AI companies, DSPs, and music platforms search for more reliable attribution systems. Credits.fm was specifically architected to support both traditional search engines and new discovery systems built with emerging technology, with dedicated infrastructure optimized for LLM indexing and agent-based search.
Credits.fm marks the first in a broader series of upcoming announcements from Notes.fm, with additional product upgrades, integrations, and new functionality expected in the months ahead.
About Notes.fm
Notes.fm is a music rights infrastructure company helping musicians and music companies identify, fix, and collect missing royalties. Founded by Stem co-founder Tim Luckow, Notes.fm simplifies royalty review, registration, payments, and catalog management through modern data infrastructure built for today’s music industry.
About Credits.fm
Credits.fm is the richest open music credits database on the web, indexing more than 150 million song codes, identifiers, and contributor records across the global music ecosystem. Built as an open API layer for the music industry, Credits.fm powers attribution, metadata verification, and AI-ready music infrastructure for developers, platforms, and rights holders.