Editorial Policy

How Estimates and Pages Are Reviewed

Updated August 19, 2026

How Much Music publishes source-led explainers and, when evidence permits, documented catalog case studies. We do not treat private royalty statements, confidential contracts, distributor dashboards, or unverified model fields as public evidence.

Quick Answer

A case study must show what supports it, what is analysis, and what remains unknown.

Catalog profiles are kept out of search indexing until they meet this standard. They are not called case studies merely because they have platform links or structured metadata.

What We Publish and Why

Purpose Explain music catalog economics in plain language, with public sources that readers can inspect and clear limits around private financial information.

Publisher Pages are published by Andrei Olaru, trading as Made By Kreativ, an individual in Bucharest, Romania. Reader corrections, source updates, and attribution issues should be sent to info@howmuchmusic.com.

Evidence Standard A case study needs at least three substantive public sources across at least two evidence roles: primary record, independent reporting, or rights context. Each linked source is described for the limited claim it supports.

Responsible editor Andrei Olaru is responsible for editorial review and correction decisions.

Limits Each case study states its limitations, reviewer, and review date. A financial range also requires visible model inputs and assumptions before it can be published.

Estimate Rules

A range is published only when its public inputs and source roles can be described on the page.
Artist-side and gross activity are separated only when the available evidence supports that distinction.
Private contracts, royalties, and recoupment cannot be inferred from a stream count, chart position, or artist homepage.
Profiles that fail the standard remain browseable, noindex, and excluded from advertising and the sitemap.

Source Handling

Editorial review distinguishes source roles. Primary records, independent reporting, and rights context can support different parts of an analysis. Artist homepages and platform links can establish identity or availability, but cannot qualify a financial claim on their own.

Publication and Reader Gate

Not every artist or song entry is treated as a finished article. A page is promoted only after it has page-specific evidence, named editorial responsibility, explicit limits, and a visible corrections path. Financial analysis needs a documented model record in addition to those requirements. Utility directories, incomplete profiles, update logs, album pages, and broad browsing pages remain available for navigation but are excluded from search indexing.

Publication Review Loop

New case studies are added one evidence question at a time. Before publication, the editor checks source roles, page-specific analysis, explicit limits, publication history, and the correction route. When a case study is updated, the editor also runs the source-link audit and replaces or corrects any public link that no longer resolves. The build checks that incomplete catalog records stay noindex and out of the public sitemap.

Reader behavior is measured through search submissions and case-study opens to identify whether people can find the published work. Those measurements improve navigation; they are not used as evidence for music-rights claims.

What We Do Not Treat as Proof

A high stream count does not prove one universal per-stream payout rate.
A catalog sale mention does not prove the artist personally receives the whole sale value.
An official music or platform page confirms identity and availability, not complete royalty income.
Modeled estimates are not substitutes for royalty statements, contracts, audits, or distributor dashboards.

Corrections

Corrections are reviewed when a public source shows that a page has outdated ownership context, incorrect release information, broken image attribution, or a materially misleading estimate. Send corrections through the contact page.

Advertising Separation

Advertising does not determine which artists, songs, albums, or estimates are included. Pages are selected and updated according to editorial relevance, available context, and catalog research value.