A subscription platform that turns a 600-strong professional chart catalogue — seven-piece, in any key, with matched click tracks — into a recurring-revenue product, wired directly into the Stagelink ecosystem.
I scanned the field across the three things this product touches — chart catalogues, backing/click-track platforms, and performance apps. It splits cleanly into three camps, and not one of them does all three jobs for our audience.
We don't enter as "another chart shop." We enter as the category-defining platform — owning the model the catalogues never built and the content the apps never had. Four pillars.
We pair a curated professional library with all-you-can-play subscription access. A single Go-Charts arrangement can cost more than a month of our service. For a working musician, that comparison ends the conversation.
"Available in any key" is our headline weapon. Singers change keys constantly; competitors sell each key as a separate purchase. We make it a button. One chart, every key, instantly — plus the matched click track.
Pop, soul, swing, Motown, Latin, tribute, lounge, showband — the repertoire of real function and cruise work. The incumbents' content libraries simply don't speak this language.
Stagelink's global talent network plus the TAD roster across Land and Cruise is a launch audience no competitor can match. We don't have to find the musicians — they're already in the building.
| Capability | Catalogues | MultiTracks | iReal Pro | Stagelink Charts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro 7-piece arrangements | Yes | Worship | Chords only | Yes |
| Any-key, one tap | Paid re-buy | 3 keys | Yes | Yes |
| Matched click tracks | Add-on | Yes | MIDI | Yes |
| Unlimited subscription | No | Yes | One-off | Yes |
| Secular / function repertoire | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Integrated booking ecosystem | No | No | No | Yes |
| Built-in talent network | No | No | No | Stagelink |
I've used Stagelink Charts throughout to lean on Stagelink's brand equity and cross-sell. If you'd rather it stand alone as a subsidiary with its own identity, strong candidates:
ANYKEY · ENCORE · THE CHART ROOM · BANDSTAND · SETLIST
Your structure — Free, $29, $49, with 20% off annual — is well-judged against the market. Here's how I'd package each tier so every step up sells itself.
Illustrative only — move the sliders to pressure-test the model. Assumes a 70/30 split between Resident and Headliner subscribers and a blended annual-plan uptake.
This is the moat. A standalone chart library is a nice business. A chart library wired into where the work, the bookings and the talent already live is a category. The catalogues and platforms have no answer to this.
A single Stagelink account opens Charts. Profiles, billing and roster data flow through once.
An act booked through Stagelink lands with charts and click tracks already attached to the engagement.
Need a dep? Grant a sub instant access to exactly the charts and keys for that show.
An act's live chart library becomes a credibility signal on their Stagelink EPK — sell the booking.
It also plugs straight into the wider TAD Operating System: the Routing Dashboard, ShoreMatch and the Cruise Avails hub all gain a new data point — what an act can actually play — and Charts becomes a recurring-revenue subscriber engine feeding the whole platform.
You asked for a full working desktop app. That's the destination, and it's very buildable — but it's a phased engineering effort, not a one-shot. Honest sequencing below so we ship value early and de-risk as we go.
I build a fully interactive demo of the platform — catalogue, any-key viewer, click-track player, pricing, the Stagelink tie-in — so you can see, click and show it before a line of production code. Deployable to a subdomain like your other tools.
Catalogue, auth, Stripe subscriptions (Free/$29/$49 + annual), chart viewer with transposition, click-track playback, setlists. Web-first so it runs on any desktop or tablet day one. Built on the Airtable-backed infrastructure you already run.
Packaged desktop app, offline library, foot-switch / hands-free page turns, on-stage click routing — the features ships and gigging bands need that live in BandHelper and Playback today.
Booking-to-setlist automation, sub-player sharing, EPK repertoire, and an arranger marketplace where vetted writers add charts and earn — turning the catalogue into a self-growing flywheel.
To move from proposal to prototype, a few calls from you and a few assets from the catalogue.
One flag worth raising now: the only real risk in this model is publishing/mechanical licensing for arrangements of copyrighted songs sold by subscription. The à la carte sellers each handle this differently, and it's worth a clear position before scale. Not a blocker — but I'd build the licensing question into Phase 1 rather than discover it at Phase 3.