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SoundExchange reaches $10bn payouts milestone after 20 years
SoundExchange is 20 years old, and it’s celebrating with a big milestone for its distributions to artists and rightsholders.
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SoundExchange CEO: ‘If you present your case properly, you can have increases’
At NY:LON Connect, SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe was interviewed by Will Page, author of Tarzan Economics.
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Slacker hit by court judgement over SoundExchange royalties
Earlier this year, SoundExchange sued streaming service Slacker alleging that it had “stopped paying statutory royalties” in 2017.
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SoundExchange sues Slacker and LiveOne over music royalties
There’s another legal battle brewing in the US over digital music royalties, and this one involves SoundExchange.
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SoundExchange distributions grew 4% to $947m in 2020
US digital performance royalties agency SoundExchange has published some figures for last year, showing that its distributions grew by 4% to nearly $947m. That’s good news during the Covid-19 pandemic when […]
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SoundExchange has distributed more than $7bn since 2003
US royalties-collecting organisation SoundExchange has hit a new milestone: $7bn of distributions since it was created in 2003. The company passed $5bn of distributions in late 2017, and was thought to have reached […]
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SoundExchange paid out $908.2m to artists and labels in 2019
US performing rights body SoundExchange saw its payouts to artists and labels fall by 4.7% in 2019, although that’s because of the impact of a $150m settlement with SiriusXM the […]
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SoundExchange wants to help podcasts license music properly
Licensing music for use in podcasts is tough: in most countries there isn’t a standard (or blanket) licensing system to help shows use music while paying royalties to its rightsholders […]
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SoundExchange reveals record royalty payouts in 2018
US firm SoundExchange has published its year-end numbers for 2018, and like other bodies collecting and distributing royalties for musicians and rightsholders, it enjoyed a record year. “We distributed more […]
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SoundExchange payouts grew by 17.5% year-on-year in Q2
US company SoundExchange has published its latest quarterly figures, and they show strong growth in its payouts to artists and labels. The company paid out $208.7m in the second quarter of this year, up 17.5% year-on-year.
That growth is also reflected in SoundExchange’s figures for the first half of 2018, with distributions up 17.4% to $398.6m, almost surpassing its record year of 2016, after payouts dipped in 2017 due to Pandora signing direct licensing deals with labels.
SoundExchange also says that it distributed royalties to 28,065 payees in Q2 2018, up 9.3% year-on-year. That breaks down to an increase in the average payout per payee from $6.9k in Q2 2017 to $7.4k in Q2 2018, if you’re wondering.
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Sirius XM to pay $150m to SoundExchange to settle lawsuits
Could peace and love be returning to the US digital-music ecosystem? Don’t answer that question… But there is a new rapprochement of sorts in the relationship between satellite-radio firm Sirius XM and royalty-collector SoundExchange.
Sirius XM has agreed to pay SoundExchange a lump sum of $150m to settle a pair of lawsuits that had accused it of underpaying for performance royalties. “We have agreed to pay SoundExchange a one-time lump sum payment of $150 million on or before July 7, 2018,” noted Sirius XM’s filing with financial regulator the SEC.