Music Publishing & Rights Strategist
Founder, Beat Street Music & Publishing
Metadata, Royalties & Catalogue Strategy
Advisor to Labels, Platforms & Creators
Amit Dubey is a music publishing and rights strategist focused on strengthening the systems that govern how music is documented, attributed, and monetised. His work sits at the intersection of music publishing, metadata governance, royalty frameworks, and catalogue strategy, with a clear focus on ensuring that value flows accurately to creators and rights holders.
With a career spanning radio, television, metadata infrastructure, and copyright administration, he brings a rare combination of creative and technical understanding. This dual perspective allows him to translate industry complexities into structured workflows that improve transparency, attribution, and revenue realisation.
His work addresses critical gaps in the music ecosystem where poor metadata, fragmented rights ownership, and inefficient publishing workflows result in revenue loss, unclaimed royalties, and limited catalogue visibility across platforms.
Early Career & Foundation
Amit Dubey began his career in radio as a radio jockey and producer with Radio City and Radio One, building a strong foundation in music programming, audience engagement, and content creation. He worked closely with artists and programming teams, shaping his understanding of how music is experienced and valued by audiences.
He later transitioned into television as Creative Director at Sri Adhikari Brothers Group, where he led music programming and content strategy for flagship shows featuring prominent names such as Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra. This phase combined creative storytelling with operational execution, expanding his perspective on how music is packaged, distributed, and commercialised across formats and audiences.
His move into metadata and music technology at Gracenote marked a pivotal shift, taking him from content creation into the backend systems that power music discovery, rights management, and royalty flows across digital platforms.
Transition to Systems & Publishing
Amit’s work evolved significantly during his tenure at The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS), where he served as Head of Music Documentation. In this role, he worked at the core of rights management, focusing on improving how music is registered, tracked, and monetised.
Amit Dubey played a key role in modernising infrastructure by launching a real time member services portal aligned with global CISAC standards, improving metadata accuracy across submissions, and enabling better royalty workflows. This transformation moved documentation from manual, paper based submissions to structured digital systems, improving accessibility, efficiency, and accuracy for thousands of rights holders across India. His work contributed to significant growth in royalty collections and strengthened operational transparency.
Alongside strengthening metadata frameworks, he led industry facing workshops and training initiatives to help creators and members better understand music publishing, rights management, and digital workflows. These efforts supported wider adoption of structured systems and improved engagement between creative communities and rights infrastructure.
Entrepreneurship & Advisory
In 2025, Amit Dubey founded Beat Street Music & Publishing, an independent advisory practice focused on music publishing, rights management, and catalogue strategy. He collaborates with labels, creators, and platforms to address structural gaps in how music rights are documented, tracked, and monetised, particularly where poor metadata and fragmented ownership lead to revenue loss and unclaimed royalties.
His engagements span catalogue audits, metadata structuring, publishing administration, platform onboarding, and long term rights strategy, including licensing and sync monetisation. He helps stakeholders improve revenue visibility, ensure platform readiness, and enable stronger participation in global licensing ecosystems. His approach combines system thinking with practical execution, helping stakeholders from fragmented processes to scalable frameworks that support long term catalogue value.
About Beat Street Music & Publishing
Beat Street Music & Publishing focuses on strengthening the backend of the music industry. The company works across music publishing administration, metadata systems, and catalogue strategy to ensure that music assets are accurately represented and effectively monetised. Its work spans rights documentation, metadata governance, catalogue audits, platform onboarding, and sync licensing strategy, with a focus on long term catalogue value and alignment with global licensing ecosystems.
Academic & Industry Engagement
He also engages with academic institutions and industry forums, sharing practical insights on music publishing, metadata, and royalty systems. His sessions help emerging artists and students understand how gaps in rights management directly impact long term revenue.
Impact & Vision
Amit’s work is centered on a fundamental industry challenge: ensuring that music usage translates into accurate and timely payment. By addressing gaps in metadata, ownership ambiguity, and inefficient publishing workflows, he works towards reducing royalty leakage and improving financial outcomes for creators and rights holders.
His vision is to build a more accountable and system driven music ecosystem where accurate data, clear rights structures, and efficient processes ensure that value flows correctly across the value chain. At the same time, his work is guided by a broader belief that access and opportunity in music remain uneven. Through Beat Street Music & Publishing, he aims to contribute towards a more inclusive ecosystem where independent and underrepresented creators, including street musicians, are better positioned to be discovered, documented, and fairly compensated over time.
