Narrative
Every unmatched line is a failure wearing a financial disguise.
Consider a registered with under "Midnight Traffic (feat. Layla)". The reports it as "Midnight Traffic". The society's matching engine looks for the , but the composition was registered before ISWCs were widely assigned, so there isn't one. Title does not match precisely. ISWC absent. The royalty goes to the exceptions queue.
Nobody stole anything. Nobody broke any rule. A data gap of eight characters (a parenthetical title suffix missing) is enough to make money disappear.
This is . It is not exotic. It is the daily operational reality of royalty administration, and it is the reason the exists at all.