Music Reports provides the most comprehensive music copyright research services available to digital and mobile music services, broadcasters, consumer products companies, record labels and other institutional music users. These entities come to Music Reports to meet the daunting challenge of identifying the rightsowners of all the world's music, as there is no publicly available database available for this purpose. Rightsowners themselves are frequently unable to document their own musical holdings. To meet this challenge, Music Reports relies on Songdex®, the world's largest independent, relational database of music copyright and related business information.

For research purposes, Music Reports clients provide the company with the so-called "recording-level metadata" from the music catalogs which they make available to consumers. These catalogs may be tens of millions of recordings deep. Music Reports has developed proprietary syntax-based matching algorithms to match recording-level metadata (which is generally available and mostly static) to so-called "song-level metadata" (which is scarcely available and changing). The company's robust and scalable data processing capabilities enable it to research tens of millions of metadata records at a very high degree of accuracy in a matter of a few days' time. Those records which cannot be researched systemically are provided to a deep staff of musicologists and copyright researchers who are constantly pouring through unmatched metadata records manually. Through the use of these processes, Music Reports enables its clients to obtain rights from, and pay royalties to, the world's music rightsowners, with the least amount of risk possible.