Narrative
Six months on, the producer checks the . Their name is not on it.
A producer finishes the beat; the artist records vocals the following afternoon. The track goes live three weeks later, and starts moving.
Then the gap appears. The producer's name was never added to the metadata. was uploaded with a blank producer field, no linked to them, and the registered under the artist's publisher alone.
Every pound the track earned in those six months went somewhere. Just not to the producer. This is the most common, most preventable way money leaks, and the adviser's job is to close the gap before release.