There is a very good chance some of your streaming royalties are sitting in an account you have never heard of. When the Mechanical Licensing Collective was created in 2021, streaming platforms handed over $424 million in royalties they could not match to a songwriter. A lot of that original pool has since been claimed, but the same mechanism that created it is still running every month, which means new unmatched money keeps landing in the same account. This is the checklist