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Lagos, Nigeria

YOUR STREAMS.NOT YOUR MONEY.

Stavemusictech audits your royalty statements, identifies every underpayment, and writes the dispute letter to get your money back.

14 disputes settled in our first three months of operation

The problem

₦ 840,000

Shortfall found in one artist’s statements across fourteen months.

73%

Of independent Nigerian artists cannot verify their royalty statements.

8

Error types we check every statement for, from missing ISRCs to unexplained adjustments.

How it works
01

Upload your statement

Any distributor, any format. PDF or CSV. Stavemusictech reads the tables, not just the text.

02

Stavemusictech finds the gaps

Rate mismatches, metadata errors, missing territory registrations, adjustments nobody explained.

03

One-click dispute letter

Professional, cited, and specific enough that a distributor cannot file it under “adjustments”.

What a finding looks like

One row. One number. One reason.

Statement L-0417 · Ditto Music

Discrepancy

ISRC

NG-A1B-24-00012

Streams

48,200

Paid

₦ 3,412

Expected

₦ 5,780

Shortfall

₦ 2,368

Cause

Rate period mismatch

Streams dated after 01 July 2024 were paid at Spotify’s previous Nigeria rate of 52 kobo/stream. The rate in effect for this period is 61 kobo/stream.

Stavemusictech found ₦ 44,263 across 10 rows on this one statement. See the full audit

Who built this

Built by an artist who stopped accepting “adjustments” as an answer.

Portrait of Anyadike Divine Chigozirim, CEO and co-founder of Stavemusictech

Anyadike Divine Chigozirim

CEO & Co-founder

Second-time founder. Records as Divine. Spent a year trying to get a distributor to explain a missing 208,000 streams.

Portrait of Adaeze Ikenna, CTO and co-founder of Stavemusictech

Adaeze Ikenna

CTO & Co-founder

Three years building streaming royalty data pipelines at Spotify. Knows exactly where they break.

Portrait of Jordan Hayes, Head of Rights at Stavemusictech

Jordan Hayes

Head of Rights

Nine years at PRS for Music. Writes the methodology that makes a dispute letter hard to dismiss.

“I made the spreadsheet for myself. Then my producer asked me to run it on his statements. Then his manager asked me to run it for twelve artists. That is when I knew it was a product.”
Anyadike Divine Chigozirim — CEO & Co-founder
“Stavemusictech found ₦ 2.1M in shortfalls across my catalogue. My distributor settled ₦ 1.4M of it within three weeks. The letter was specific enough that they could not ignore it.”
Afrobeats producer, Lagos — beta participant

KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OWED.

Run your first audit free

One statement a month, free. No card.