Your royalties data are a gold mine of business insights, and Tone makes it easy for your whole team to uncover those insights in our comprehensive charts. In this article, we’ll show you how to navigate the Insights Dashboard to dig into the sales that have been included in royalty periods.
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Use the Insights dashboard to explore and understand the sales, costs and recoupment activity that have been calculated and processed as part of any royalty period in Tone. If you are currently in-between royalty periods, this page will not show any sales or cost data that is pending. Once your next royalty periods are ready for review, check the “include in-process data” box to include that new data. Otherwise, it will show up once you approve the royalty period
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Let’s get into it!
Log in to Tone and click on the Insights tab. The first view you get in this page is your total sales across all royalty periods you’ve processed with Tone.
You can adjust the amount of data you see here using settings like Units (Dollars or Streams), Time Interval, and Date Range. Check Include in-process data to show data from any unapproved royalty periods.
(Need to approve a period? Read this article! How to Review a Royalty Period)
Next, click Breakdown By to see your data broken down by Artists, Tracks, Platforms, Configurations, or Territories!
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Use the filters to dig in even further. You can filter by Artist, Track, Platform, Territory, or Configuration. Click Clear filters to get back to the view of total sales. When you have a view you like, click Save view to add it to your views.
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Once the view is saved, use the pencil icon to name it. All of your saved views can be accessed by clicking My views when you’re ready to run those reports. And if you ever need to delete one, you can do so by clicking on the trash icon, then clicking Delete View. Please note that saved views are shared across your entire company.
Scrolling down, you can get quick insights into metrics like your best performing artist, top song, or most popular platform. In each of these tables, click Over time to compare performance for each subitem.
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Use the Compare tracks from release date table to look at trends for each song. We recommend filtering down to the tracks you want to compare in this table for a more concise view.
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