Dispatch
Analysis, not a news treadmill.
We are not going to chase the announcement cycle. Everyone already covers it, faster, with better access. Dispatch exists for the pieces that need arithmetic: how a mechanism actually works, what a document actually says, and what a number actually means once you divide it by something.
Queued
Nothing published yet
This section opens with the first study. Listing empty cards to make an index look populated is the exact move this publication exists not to make. What is coming, in order:
Reading a distribution statement without the marketing on top
Line by line: what each entry represents, which ones are deductions dressed as categories, and where the money quietly moves.
Independent, semi-independent, and the ones just labelled that way
Ownership is checkable through filings. We check it and publish the chain rather than the adjective.
What a support slot actually costs an artist
Tour settlements from the opener's side, net of production, travel and buy-ons.
The per-stream rate is not a rate
Why the headline number is an average of an average, and what the distribution underneath it looks like.
Meanwhile
The research is where the work is
Dispatch is the fast layer. The studies are the reason the fast layer will be worth reading.
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