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A New York-based startup, TuneSat, has made the astonishing claim that up to 80% of music played commercially goes unreported or misreported, leading to a huge amount of lost royalties for musicians and publishers. TuneSat in part blames interns in television and radio for wrongly filling out cue sheets, and unsurprisingly tout themselves as the solution – their Shazam-style music indentification program claims to be able to recognise music even when it is buried underneath dialogue. However, with no explanation as to where the 80% figure comes from, or any statistics relating to the accuracy of TuneSat itself, it’s hard to know how much of this is a genuine warning and how much a savvy sales pitch…

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