The music royalties marketplace, redesigned: a simpler way to build your portfolio

Building a portfolio of music royalties should feel effortless. We brought you closer to the possibility of investing in this alternative asset, and as the marketplace has grown, so has the number of catalogues to explore. The redesigned marketplace makes that choice easier: less to scan, fewer clicks to reach the catalogues that fit you, and a smoother path between your portfolio and the market.

Everything you rely on is still here, now with more clarity and more control at every step. Here is how it works now.

A platform to manage your investments, not just a marketplace page

The redesign starts with the layout. On Desktop, the marketplace now sits between two side panels that keep the tools you need within reach wherever you are on the platform.

On the left, a fixed menu gives you one-click access to the main sections from anywhere: Marketplace, My portfolio, Listen and Backstage, along with your available funds.

On the right, a second panel adapts to whatever you are doing: placing a bid, completing a purchase, or managing your funds. It is also where you can find two key resources:

• For investors just starting out, "Learn before you buy": an entry point covering the key concepts, with our educational resources on how catalogues and royalties work, so you understand music royalties as an alternative asset before you begin.
• News: a feed with the latest articles published by ANote Music, ranging from market news and analysis to artist and investor interviews.

Your portfolio now lives in the same left panel, so moving between it and the rest of the platform is seamless.

Read the market at a glance

Before you can decide which catalogues to add to your portfolio, you need to see where the market stands. A refreshed statistics bar runs across the top of the marketplace and displays the key indicators together:

• The ANote Music Index and its daily change: an average across every catalogue on the platform, combining price changes and royalty income. A reference point for how the market is moving.
• The median historical yield: the range between the median yield of the lowest- and highest-performing catalogues, shown over the last 12, 24 and 36 months.
• The total market valuation: the combined value of all catalogues on the marketplace at current prices.

Find the catalogues that fit your strategy, faster

Seeing the market is one thing; finding your next move in it is another. New filters and sorting options make scanning catalogues quicker and more precise.

With the Top artists tags, you can browse catalogues by the performing artists behind a selection of high-profile songs listed on the platform.

You can also filter the available catalogues by:

• Paying soon: catalogues expected to pay in the current month.
• Direct listing: catalogues where sellers are offering an additional percentage of their future royalties, so more shares may be available than usual. Read more about Direct Listing in our dedicated article.
• Life of rights: catalogues listed for the full life of the rights, rather than a limited term.

And within any of these filters, you can sort tradable catalogues by:

• Historical yield: the royalties a catalogue has paid historically, measured against its current share price.
• Daily performance: combines daily price changes and royalties distributed by the catalogue.
• Last month's performance: combines price changes and royalties distributed by the catalogue over the last 30 days.
• Overall performance since listing: combines price changes and royalties distributed by the catalogue since its first listing on the ANote Music marketplace.

Together, these let you scan for whatever fits your current approach: anticipating an upcoming royalty payment, or finding the catalogues with the highest daily, monthly or overall performance.

Shape a bundle around what you want

Here is the change most of you asked for. Bundles are no longer fixed. Before you confirm, you can remove any catalogue from the selection and keep only the ones you want. A bundle is now a starting point you shape, not a package you take as-is.

There are also two new bundle types, giving you three categories to choose from:

• All: the broadest selection, covering every catalogue available on the marketplace.
• Stable royalties (new): catalogues whose royalty payments have shown lower historical fluctuation than others on the market.
• High yield (new): catalogues with higher historical yields than others available.

Bundles let you buy shares of several catalogues in a single operation, so you can diversify without picking catalogues one by one, whether you are just starting out or want to allocate a larger amount at once. Each bundle holds a similar number of shares per catalogue, subject to availability, and includes only catalogues that have passed ANote Music's Investor Protection Programme (IPP).

Please note: bundles are built on predefined criteria and are not designed to achieve any specific future performance or result. Their composition may change depending on catalogue availability at the time of purchase.

A closer look at any single catalogue

Analysing catalogues one by one might still be what you want; two changes help you get to know and follow each one better.

Every catalogue now carries its own ticker: a short code, familiar from traditional markets, that lets you identify, follow and find it again whether you are browsing, trading or checking your portfolio.

Plus, in each catalogue page, inside the "Historical royalties" section, you can now filter the "Recent royalties generated" chart by individual royalty distributor. This lets you see how much each distributor contributes to a catalogue's total royalties, for a clearer picture of where its income comes from. If you're curious about why different distributors contribute to each royalty payout at different times, take a look at our article on how music royalty distribution works: timing, delays, and what to expect.

A sharper view of your portfolio

The “Owned catalogues” section in My portfolio got an improvement too. On that table, you can sort the catalogues you own by overall and daily performance to see which ones are driving your portfolio's value, and track how it has performed over 1 month, 6 months, 12 months or since you started. You can also review the royalties you have received over the same periods, compare your annualised royalty yield across catalogues, and see your available funds at any time.

Built for clarity, across desktop and mobile

The visual experience has been reworked end to end: smoother movement between desktop and mobile, more readable catalogue cards, yield indicators highlighted in colour, and a clearer hierarchy that keeps the essentials front and centre, yield, price per share and current opportunities, without crowding the screen.

We rebuilt the marketplace with one mission: to give you more clarity and more control over how you build a portfolio of music royalties. This redesign came from your feedback, and the next improvements will too, so once you have explored it, tell us what works and what you would improve in our Discord community or send us an email to support@anotemusic.com. We read all of it.

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‍This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Performance and returns are not guaranteed and may fluctuate over time.

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