There is a logical explination as to why the ISRC and UPC codes should be from only one source and be ASSIGNED and SPECIFIC to you as an ARTIST or RECORD LABEL. The reason the ISRC/UPC codes need to be unique to your brand of music is for an un-obvious reason. If you use different music distribution labels to distribute your music — it has the potential to create CATASTROPHIC failure to your Pandora Station when their internal system indexes your over-all total MUSIC CATALOG if your wanting it to play and reference — from one specific Pandora Radio station . And the only way around that problem is if PANDORA FIXED it manually on their end or allowed a management module to be created to claim that song to the specific radio station artist profile — (If pandora or some other company can even fix the issue or even wants to fix it being they can get more bang for the buck by watering down indie artist streaming play vs majors label streams). For a LIVING EXAMPLE —- of this CATASTROPHIC failure as of the time of this writing, SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 2024, Look up Rob Payne III or Rob Payne iii on Pandora and check the songs on the catalog for that specific Artist Radio Station Page. (If its not fixed —- It will claim its only 9 songs total in my entire music catalog for this radio station on pandora when it should be saying its more then that- as of 12/15/2024 - pray for a brother that they fix it soon…) Currently its saying only songs on this station is: 1) Everyone Is Real, By Rob Payne III 2) I’m The H.N.I.C. , By Rob Payne III 3) Tapz-N-Tabz , By Rob Payne III 4) Squat With It B!tch , By Rob Payne III 5) So What I’m Saying Is (BOTH VERSIONS) , By Rob Payne III 6) Still Official , (BOTH VERSIONS), By Rob Payne III 9) I Want You To Be My Girl, By Rob Payne III <———— all distributed under CD Baby at time of print For Rob Payne III Radio Station But if you look up my NEW MUSIC RELEASES which includes the following songs ONLY populate the following songs on that artist stations catalog which apprears to be seperate but obviously the same name of ROB PAYNE III — Look up the following songs: 1) Keep It Movin, by Rob Payne III 2) Ma, I Apologize, by Rob Payne III 3) One Nite To Get It Right, by Rob Payne III <————- all distributed under the name DIstrokid at time of print In other words it’s better to keep your own UPC and ISRC codes unless you’re planning to only ever stay with one distribution source. Else you will be taking 15 inches of vinyl in your (CENSORED) instead of the 12 that spins on a record player and missing out on money. Hope this helps to create a visual understanding in your head as to why you should take charge of your own business affairs for your ISRC and UPC code. ———————IN MORE DETAIL— (THE BORING STUFF)— DETAIL FOR NERDS ONLY OR NEWSY MORE INQUISITIVE FOLKS———- - ISRC codes are intrinsic to each Recording Label or Distribution Company. Meaning that if you get some kind of Placard for unit sales and or streams, it will index the ISRC code that corresponds to “That Specific” music distributor. It’s like renting a car. The car belongs to budget or enterprise and its still in their name but you are contracted to be responsible to use that particular car based on the paperwork and contractual terms. So you can rent multiple cars from each company if you can afford to and like, but each car need to go back to its owners inventory management system. So in the case of music distribution, if a company such as Pandora, is NOT set up to auto recognize that the same Artist Profile is using a few different distribution sources or they PURPOSELY TURN OFF the management console module on the back-end for a particular artist. The radio station will create 2 or even more —- DIFFERENT - UNIQUE STATIONS that report back to SOUND EXCHANGE, THE MLC, and your PRO paperwork wise and they will be able to make it harder for you to get extra streams unless a persons specifically request them songs. This is what happened to my Pandora Radio Station since they deactivated a feature that allows you to match your song to your music profile. Not sure if it was on purpose by some internal source at Pandora with no Pay, Someone paid them to do disrupt the music play of the new songs, or if its pure coincidant, But it sure did happen to my Artist Radio Station Page and is NOT FIXED as of 12/15/2024. My Radio Station should only house and shelf and file the entire catalog for Rob Payne III / Rob Payne iii For example, In my case, when my radio station was structured, I applied to artist submissions to get the songs approved, once the song were approved you then had to manually match your songs to the artist name, that tool has sense been either removed or turned off on my end of the management console. (Go Figure)… Now the system is different and is solely relying on music distributors input to Pandora Music and what ever other deals they got going on to exclude indies like myself. My Rob Payne III Pandora Radio Station is like it’s watered down to force no radio play for the new songs under the new distributor. So yes, in a sense NOT Controlling your ISRC and UPC codes will have you in a headlock when it comes to keeping all your music streams under one roof for your artist page. —————————————————————————————————————-
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