Is your music already in the GlueArrow DNA Registry?
Most active Ghanaian artists already have at least one song in the registry. Here is how to check, claim, and prepare for an airplay statement.
The GlueArrow DNA Registry is the catalogue of works the platform can recognise when they air. If a song is in the registry, every broadcast of that song is matched to it, timestamped, and counted toward the rights holder's statement. If a song is not in the registry, the broadcast happens and nothing follows from it.
Most active Ghanaian artists released in the last decade already have at least one song in the registry. The first thing to do is find out.
How to check
- Search the artist name at gluearrow.com/search. If a profile exists, any registered works appear on it.
- If a profile does not exist, search the song title directly. A registered song surfaces whether or not the artist profile is claimed.
- If neither the artist nor the song appears, the next step is registration — covered below.
Claiming a profile
An artist profile on GlueArrow is not a marketing page. It is the identity the platform uses to route statements and payments. Claiming the profile means linking a verified phone number and, where applicable, a MoMo account or GlueArrow Wallet, so that every future broadcast of the artist's registered works arrives on a statement addressed to the right person.
Claiming a profile does not publish anything. It does not create a public post. It does not require a launch. It is an internal step that takes a few minutes and becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
If the song is not registered
Unregistered work is a gap the artist can close directly. Registration submits the metadata the platform needs to recognise the song — title, artist, release date, and the audio reference — and adds the work to the registry. The work is recognisable from that moment forward. Prior broadcasts do not retroactively count. Broadcasts after registration do.
What to expect next
Once the registry recognises a work and the profile is claimed, the artist begins receiving airplay statements. A statement is not an estimate. It is a list of broadcasts, with the station, the time, and the signed record of each play. The first statement an artist receives is usually a surprise — in both directions. Some artists are played more than they thought. Some are played on stations they did not know carried their work. The statement is the answer, either way.
“The first statement an artist receives is usually a surprise — in both directions.”