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How it works
A site that asks you to trust its numbers should say where they came from. So: one person, no team, every figure taken from the company’s own page rather than a comparison site, and a public list of the ones that turned out to be wrong.
Who
I write and release my own music. It is not a career and I would never claim it is, but it is enough that I have paid the distributor, argued about splits, dealt with the declined card, and done the metadata at two in the morning. That is the only qualification behind any of this, and it is the reason the Rap Ledger side exists at all.
There is no team. If something on this site is wrong, it is my fault.
The numbers
Every figure is checked against the company's own pricing page rather than a comparison site, then quoted, linked and dated. Where a company does not publish a number, the page says so and leaves it flagged rather than filling the gap with a guess.
The research and the drafting of the reference material here are done with AI assistance, at my direction. That is worth stating plainly rather than leaving you to wonder. What it does not do is decide what goes up, and it does not get the final word on a number: every figure on this site was opened at the source and read before it was published, and when that check found four of them wrong, the wrong ones stayed on the page with the date instead of being quietly swapped out.
There is no opinion writing on this site. There was, briefly, and it was researched and drafted the same way. I took it down in September 2026 because publishing arguments under my name that I had not written myself did not sit right with me, however clearly the process was labelled. Tools and sourced reference material are a different thing, and those stay.
That rule came out of getting it wrong. An early version of the distribution article carried four figures taken from comparison articles, and all four were wrong when checked against the source. Both of the break-even numbers in that piece were calculated from one of them and moved when it was corrected. The corrections are on the page and in the receipts index, with the date.
Comparison sites are not sources. Go to the company's own page, quote it, link it, date it. The rule that came out of being wrong four times in one table
The limits
- It does not decide what goes on the site.
- It does not get to be the source for a number. Every figure is opened at the company's own page and read before it goes up.
- It does not publish anything. Nothing reaches this site without me reading it first.
- It does not get to quietly drop an inconvenient finding, or quietly fix a wrong one. Corrections go in the index, dated, with the old number still visible.
Saying so costs nothing. A site that runs a public corrections index while being cagey about its own process would deserve none of the trust it asks for.
The tools
Every tool on this site, including the listener one, runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, there is no account, no login and no database. Close the tab and it is gone. That is a deliberate constraint rather than a limitation, because the split sheet asks you for the names and shares of everyone in your session and that information has no business leaving your machine.
There is no tracking beyond Cloudflare's own aggregate page counts, no advertising, and nothing on this site is sponsored.
If something’s wrong
Tell @coolturkeyCT. It gets corrected on the page, dated, and added to the index under "didn't survive checking", which currently has four entries in it and will have more. That is the system working rather than failing.