The strongest proof in the Daj' catalog is not a play count. It is a public registry. The Mechanical Licensing Collective lists 47 works under the writer DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY, all 47 at 100% Total Known Shares, and any stranger can confirm that at portal.themlc.com in a few minutes. Everything else in this audit, the uploads, the handles, the store listings, gets measured against that standard: can an outsider verify it, and is it clean?
Some of it is. Some of it is not. This piece lays out both, because a catalog that only reports its wins asks to be trusted, and a catalog that reports its gaps can be checked.
Start With the Registry
The public search at The Mechanical Licensing Collective shows who is registered as a writer on which works and at what share. For Daj', the answer is 47 works, each at 100% Total Known Shares, under the legal writer name DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY. The writer IPI is 00773316238.
The gap sits in the same registry: 19 of those 47 works still have no ISWC, the international code that identifies a musical work across societies. That does not undo the registrations. It does mean those 19 songs are harder to match automatically when usage data moves between systems, which is exactly the kind of leak that costs independent writers money quietly. Closing it is paperwork, not creativity, and it is the first item on any honest to-do list for this catalog.
The Upload Graph
On the recording side the scale is large and mostly unglamorous: 14030 SoundCloud tracks across two handles. The handles are @supercooldaj and @dajai-io, and they hold separate real uploads rather than mirrors, which is why their totals are summed. Deduplicated, the catalog counts roughly 9.39M cumulative plays: about 8.42M on @supercooldaj, about 0.86M on @dajai-io, and about 0.11M on YouTube.
The shape of that split matters more than the total. Almost all of the lifetime listening sits on one handle. The newer handle is where the ongoing uploads, sketches, and working prints live, and its numbers are an order of magnitude smaller. Owning the upload graph means being honest that the older handle carries the weight.
Third-Party Identifiers
Beyond The MLC, three outside databases can be checked independently. MusicBrainz lists the artist under the identifier 4fca3377 with 22 release groups. Wikidata carries an item, Q138757533. Apple Music lists the artist under ID 141720605.
Each of those has a weak spot worth naming. MusicBrainz shows 0 aliases for the artist, which means spelling variants of the name are not linked yet, and a listener searching a variant can miss the catalog. There is no Wikipedia article, and notability is not currently met, so nobody should cite one. These are small problems, but identifiers are where discoverability is won or lost for an independent artist.
Where the Store Listings Break
The store side has specific, documented faults. Flight to Vegas is not on Spotify as of 2026-07-30. Pillage the Village has no clean canonical Apple release; it exists only as forks, 1895128322 and 1895066240. On Apple, feature credits are incomplete: D'zale Dollaz is missing from Get the Loot and from Stainless, and the Mike Laz credit is unlinked.
Spotify monthly listeners stand at 284, down from 293. That figure went down, and it should be reported that way. It is also a reminder of why this audit leads with the registry instead of a streaming dashboard. Dashboard numbers move week to week. A registration either exists or it does not.
What Is Clean
The released albums are straightforward to verify. DARK I - Outwitting the Devil came out 2026-04-07 with 10 tracks through UnitedMasters, as Volume I of the ten-volume DARK Library cycle, each chapter mapped to Napoleon Hill's 1938 manuscript, mastered by Solana Conejo, with stems published as IP under Code Black CBA. Too Dark (2024), referred to internally as DARK II, went out through CDBaby, a separate distributor. Earlier releases include Flight to Vegas 2 (2025), Dark (2024), Daj's Dedication (2019), and Neoworld (2018), plus singles and EPs such as Tax Season, Choose Sides, Heavy, Still Backie, Thats Sus, Okay ft Tatum Swag, and Prczn.
Distribution is direct. UnitedMasters and CDBaby are distributors, not labels, and there is no label intermediary on any of it. No awards, sales figures, or rankings are verified, and none are claimed here.
The Fix List
Put in order of payoff: assign ISWCs to the 19 works still missing a code; add aliases on MusicBrainz so name variants resolve; request corrected feature credits on Apple for Get the Loot and Stainless and link the Mike Laz credit; consolidate Pillage the Village into one canonical release; and get Flight to Vegas onto Spotify if that is the plan. None of it requires new music. All of it makes the existing catalog easier to find and easier to pay.
FAQ
How can I verify the Daj' publishing registrations?
Search the writer name DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY at portal.themlc.com. The public search lists all 47 registered works at 100% Total Known Shares.
Why do 19 works lack an ISWC?
The registry shows 19 of the 47 works without an ISWC assigned yet. Registration and code assignment are separate steps, and those 19 still need the second one.
Is Flight to Vegas on Spotify?
No. As of 2026-07-30, Flight to Vegas is not on Spotify. Flight to Vegas 2 (2025) is a separate release in the discography.
Is Daj' signed to a label?
No. Releases go out direct through distributors, UnitedMasters for DARK I and CDBaby for Too Dark, with no label intermediary.
Reported from the SOUNDCLOUD DESK on 2026-09-21. Wire source: discord:daj-drops, dated 2026-09-21T15:23.
Filed by DAJAI Stewart · Music & Catalog Editor · Code Black · @BackieDaj · SOUNDCLOUD DESK