Inside the Enterprise Partner Feed: How SSO Structures Data for Global Music Distribution

❖ Inside the Enterprise Partner Feed: How SSO Structures Data for Global Music Distribution

At SSO Artists Entertainment, our infrastructure has always been built around one idea: scalability with precision. When you’re delivering catalogs across Apple, Amazon, Gracenote, Shazam, Musixmatch, VEVO, and every downstream metadata partner, the quality of your internal schema directly determines the quality of your artist presence worldwide.

The diagram above represents a classic Enterprise Partner Feed data model — the foundation of how major platforms ingest, verify, and display music metadata. At SSO, our own internal DDEX/MEAD-driven architecture mirrors this same structure, allowing us to deliver pixel-perfect metadata at enterprise scale.

Below is an overview of how this structure works and why SSO’s 2026 tech stack is engineered around it.

❖ 1. Artists, Roles & Identity Mapping

At the core of the model are your main entities:

artist

role

artist_song

artist_video

artist_application

These tables define:

How artists appear on songs, videos, and releases

Their roles (primary artist, featuring, producer, writer, etc.)

Their canonical view URLs

How the system resolves “actual artist” vs “display artist”

For SSO, this allows:

Automatic role parsing

Clean ownership accounting

Zero-conflict artist identity across platforms

This is why your catalog stays consistent on Apple, Spotify, and partner APIs without manual edits.

❖ 2. Collections (Albums/EPs/Singles) & Track-Level Structure

The collection and its related tables define the full packaging of a release:

collection_id, artwork, display name, view URL

Track-to-collection mapping through collection_song

Video packaging through collection_video

The system also supports:

Disc/track codes

Multiple storefronts

Different retail prices at different storefronts

SSO extends this with:

Automated MEAD packaging

Region-specific deliverables

Silent Atmos embedding for Apple Music

Everything stays DDEX-compliant and ready for pass-through to Apple/FPT.

❖ 3. Song & Video Entities

The song and video master tables control:

Names, search terms, display names

Artwork URLs

Global identifiers

Track-level metadata (ISRC, UPC, disc-track sequencing)

These tables serve as single sources of truth for all derivative assets.

SSO enhances this with:

Automated QC (Monte-Carlo validators & MCMC consistency checks)

TimedWord lyric embedding for Musixmatch → Apple passthrough

Dolby Atmos ADM version assignment

This ensures that every partner sees the correct version of every asset.

❖ 4. Translations & Localization

The translation tables:

artist_translation

song_translation

collection_translation

video_translation

application_translation

…allow releases to be localized per language and region.

SSO uses this layer to:

Provide autonomous multi-language support (Spanish-first for Urbano artists)

Dynamically generate localized display names

Support global SEO through structured metadata

With SSO’s international growth (2026 rollout), this layer is critical.

❖ 5. Pricing, Storefronts & Parental Advisory Logic

These key tables define monetization:

song_price

video_price

application_price

storefront

currency_code

parental_advisory

This powers:

Market-specific pricing

Clean parental advisory routing

Full storefront mapping for over 200 markets

For SSO:

Our pricing layer integrates with Cloudflare + MEAD schema validation, ensuring every release is compliant with Apple and Amazon’s retail rules.

❖ 6. Metadata Types, Genres & Key/Value Definitions

Finally:

genre

media_type

role

translation_type

collection_type

key_value

These ensure:

Genre alignment

Media classification

Internal tagging

Custom extended metadata fields (SSO-exclusive)

This is the layer that lets SSO do:

Editorial-grade metadata

High-confidence partner ingestion

CES-level dataset export for 2026 partnerships

❖ Why This Matters for SSO (2026 Roadmap)

SSO’s entire 2026 rollout — including:

SSO Digital Solutions

CES 2026 demonstrations

Gracenote & Apple partner integrations

New DDEX MEAD pipelines

Cloudflare-based QC infrastructure

—is built on this type of structured, enterprise-grade metadata model.

This architecture allows us to:

Scale to millions of monthly listeners

Perform Monte Carlo QC on metadata

Deliver fully compliant TimedWord lyric feeds

Push Atmos, Clean, Explicit, Instrumental, and multi-version catalogs seamlessly

Maintain catalog valuation accuracy ($5.3M in private equity)

This is the backbone of SSO’s power:
Metadata engineered like a Fortune-500 tech stack, but optimized for modern artists.