Tracking Music Royalties

At a time when revenue is booming, artists, songwriters and copyright owners should expect their income to rise as well, whether through performance royalties (for songwriters and music publishers), mechanical royalties (for owners of sound-recording copyrights), digital performance royalties (paid in the United States by noninteractive digital streaming services) or neighboring rights royalties (earned outside the United States from the public performance of a master recording). In the world’s top 10 markets as ranked by IFPI, these are the leading rights-collection organizations. Most are commonly identified by the widely used acronyms for their full names.

1. UNITED STATES ASCAP

BMI

SESAC

Global Music Rights HFA SoundExchange

The MLC

2. JAPAN

JASRAC CPRA/Geindankyo

3. UNITED KINGDOM

MCPS PPL PRS

4. GERMANY

GEMA

GVL

5. FRANCE

SACEM SCPP

6. CHINA

MCSC

7. SOUTH KOREA

KOMCA RIAK

8. CANADA

SOCAN Sound

9. AUSTRALIA

APRA AMCOS PPCA

10. ITALY

SIAE

Sources

ASCAP, BMI, CISAC, SoundExchange