US music rights society ASCAP collected a record-breaking $1.94 billion in revenue in the 2025 calendar year, up 6.0% over 2024, with $1.76bn available for royalty distributions to ASCAP music creator and publisher members, a 3.7% increase over the prior year. "This is the highest amount of revenue and royalty distributions ever reported by ASCAP," said the New York-based society. "ASCAP disclosed that in the last 10 years of its strategic growth plan, 2015 – 2025, the society has generated a c...

SoundExchange has signed a raft of new collaborative agreements with collective management organisations (CMOs) around the world for the collection of performance rights of recordings represented by the US neighbouring rights society. The Washington, DC-based CMO has in recent months added 17 new agreements with sister societies, including most recently with Kenya's KAMP (Kenya Association of Music Producers), Barbados's COSCAP (Copyright Society of Composers Authors & Publishers), Panama's ...

SACEM has disclosed that Sony Music, Warner Music and BMG have chosen the French rights society for the management of their mechanical rights in Europe. They join Universal Music, which has been associated with SACEM for the past 10 years on mechanical rights. "At a time when physical media (CDs, vinyl records) are proving they still hold an essential place in the music economy and in the hearts of many creators, SACEM is leading by example as the single European hub for mechanical rights manage...