Anthology: The Music OS

The Fragmentation Problem

A modern music business operates across distributors, collection societies, warehouses, webstores, accounting platforms, marketing tools, spreadsheets, shared drives and countless other systems.

The problem isn’t that those systems exist. It’s that the information around your catalogue is disconnected.

Your catalogue lives in one place.
Revenue arrives somewhere else.
Rights information sits in another system.
Contracts are buried in folders.
Physical stock has its own workflow.
Marketing teams work from another set of dashboards.
And your people spend too much time connecting the dots.

Anthology creates the operating layer between them.

One connected environment where the information around your catalogue can work together.

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The current stock level for the 'Ghost in the Wires' vinyl is 875 units and average demand is 50 per day.

Digital distribution is part of Anthology. It’s not the whole story.

Anthology includes its own digital distribution and delivery capabilities. But using them isn’t a condition of using the rest of Anthology.

Keep the distributor and specialist partners that work for you. Start with the part of your business that needs to work better today - whether that’s catalogue management, registrations, neighbouring rights, physical operations, revenue, streaming integrity, marketing or documents. Then connect more when you’re ready.

Modular by design. Unified at the core.

Whichever capabilities you use, Anthology brings them together through a shared catalogue, connected data, workflows, permissions and intelligence.

One operating layer. Start anywhere.

THE MUSIC OS

Choose where to start.

Use one Anthology capability or connect your entire operation.

However you begin, Anthology keeps the catalogue and information behind your business connected.

Catalogue & Rights

Know what you own. Keep the detail connected.

Build one connected view of your recordings, releases, artists, contributors and rights. Manage ownership, territories, rights periods and catalogue relationships while bringing existing repertoire into Anthology from partners, feeds and other systems. Track changes and keep the history behind your catalogue visible.

Catalogue management Rights ownership Territories Contributors Data ingestion Change tracking

Digital Distribution & Delivery

Take your releases from catalogue to platform.

Manage digital delivery from the same environment you use to manage the rest of your catalogue. Prepare releases, validate metadata and deliver music to supported streaming and download services, with delivery activity and release information kept connected. Use Anthology for digital distribution across your catalogue - or retain your existing distributor while using the rest of the Music OS.

Digital distribution Release delivery Metadata validation DSP delivery Delivery tracking

Neighbouring Rights & Content ID

Turn connected repertoire data into better rights administration.

Manage the information required to register recordings and administer neighbouring rights across supported societies and rights organisations. Identify missing recording and performer information, prepare repertoire for registration and manage representation, ownership and territorial rules. Keep the information behind each registration and claim connected to the underlying catalogue.

Neighbouring rights Content ID Performer information Claims Representation Territory management

Physical & D2C

Connect your physical supply chain to your catalogue.

Manage physical products from manufacturing specification through to stock and sales. Handle complex formats, connect components to supplier purchase orders and bring warehouse deliveries and stock positions together across multiple locations. Connect physical distribution, webstores and direct-to-fan activity back to the same catalogue.

Warehouse integration Manufacturing Mechanicals Purchase orders Stock Physical distribution D2C

Revenue & Reporting

Map global revenue streams directly back to your catalogue.

Consolidate revenue from multiple sources - including streaming, downloads, physical sales, neighbouring rights and D2C - and connect it back to the correct recordings and releases in Anthology. Analyse revenue across artist, label, release, territory, source and period while identifying data that needs reviewing or assigning. Create cleaner, better-structured data for finance teams, reporting and specialist downstream royalty-accounting systems.

Revenue consolidation Sales matching Catalogue assignment Reporting Analytics Finance data

Insights & Streaming Integrity

See what is changing before it becomes a month-end problem.

Bring consumption, live, and other performance signals together around your catalogue. See emerging activity by artist, release or territory and identify unusual streaming behaviour that may require investigation. Safeguard your catalogue's integrity and protect your revenue with Anthology's Artificial Streaming Protection Suite. Give your team earlier visibility of both opportunity and risk rather than relying only on retrospective reporting.

Consumption trends Demographics Territory insights Catalogue performance Streaming anomalies Integrity monitoring

Marketing & Pitching

Turn catalogue intelligence into action.

Bring marketing activity closer to the catalogue and performance data behind each release. Build Slinky smart links, prepare release campaigns and pitches, create campaign materials and use AI-assisted tools to help turn ideas into finished creative assets. Keep campaign information, release data and the people working on it connected.

Slinky smart links AI-assisted creative Campaigns ONE-sheets Playlist pitching Marketing workflows

Documents & Asset Vault

Keep key files and contracts connected to your catalogue.

Store contracts, agreements, documents and other important business assets alongside the artists, releases, labels, clients and catalogue they relate to. Control access by team or role and securely share documents and assets when needed. So when somebody needs the agreement behind a recording, the artist images or the files relating to a particular client, the answer isn’t buried in an inbox or disconnected shared drive.

Contracts Agreements Artwork Business documents Secure access Permissions

ANT

Intelligence built into your operation.
Meet Ant.

Ant is Anthology’s intelligent music business assistant.

It works across the Anthology capabilities and connected information available to your team to help identify issues, opportunities and actions that deserve attention.

Instead of waiting for someone to search for the problem, Ant helps bring what matters to the surface. That could mean:

Missing rights information affecting a registration.
Potential uncollected revenue worth investigating.
Physical stock approaching a critical level.
Unusual streaming behaviour that needs reviewing.
Catalogue information that appears incomplete or inconsistent.
Or an emerging performance signal that might represent an opportunity.

Anthology’s workflow engine then helps move the work forward — directing actions, tracking progress and keeping the people involved connected.

It surfaces. It recommends. It prepares. You decide.

OPERATIONS

Built for the team behind the catalogue.

Anthology doesn’t just connect your data. It gives your team the tools to manage access, resolve issues and keep the operation moving from the same environment.

From support requests to granular permissions, the administrative layer sits alongside the catalogue, workflows and intelligence that power the rest of the Music OS.

TICKETING & SUPPORT

Keep support connected to the work.

Raise, manage, and track support requests directly within Anthology rather than losing issues across email threads and separate tools. Our intelligent platform goes well beyond standard Q&A assistance: it proactively audits your catalogue to unearth metadata errors, compliance checks, and operational tasks, automatically generating tickets for the relevant teams.

The system surfaces the issue and provides guidance, but never executes changes without human approval—leaving your team members in full control to evaluate and make the final decision. Through an acknowledged sign-off workflow, every task moves smoothly from detection to verified closure.

PERMISSIONS & SETTINGS

Give the right people access to the right information.

Manage users and permissions across your Anthology environment, including granular access down to individual artists where required. Control who can view or manage different areas of the business, while keeping platform and DSP settings organised in one place.

One system doesn’t mean everyone sees everything. Anthology gives each person access to the information and workflows they need - while keeping administration, support and oversight connected across the organisation.

WHO ANTHOLOGY IS FOR

One Music OS. Two ways to work with it.

Anthology is built for rights holders. How you access it depends on the scale of your catalogue and how much operational support you want around the technology.

SELF-MANAGED

Anthology Direct

Run your business on Anthology.

For established labels, catalogue companies, distributors and rights holders with teams managing their own operation.

Typically suited to businesses managing around 1000 tracks or more, although catalogue size is only one part of the picture.

Own Anthology environment with isolated data storage
Choose the capabilities you need across your business
Connect around partners and systems you already use
Digital distribution included, or retain your distributor
Start with one capability or bring the whole operation together

Your business. Your team. Your Music OS.

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MANAGED SERVICE

Anthology + Partner

The Music OS, with a team around it.

You don’t need a large catalogue or an in-house operations team to benefit from Anthology. Available through partnership with Absolute Label Services.

Ideal for smaller and growing catalogues, or rights holders seeking hands-on, white-glove label-services support.

Combines Anthology technology with a dedicated label-services team
Full digital distribution, release management, and DSP pitching
Physical manufacturing, warehousing, and D2C distribution
Neighbouring rights administration and wider operational support
Access to all Anthology intelligence with an experienced team putting it to work

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The Fragmentation Problem

Digital distribution is part of Anthology. It’s not the whole story.

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