As the year ends, SoundExchange is looking back at 2025's Top 20 Tracks and Breakout Creators. The annual lists are based on 12 months (December 1, 2024-November 30, 2025) of non-interactive streaming ...

Bargatze is recognized as one of the most-streamed comedians in SoundExchange;s 20-plus year history of administering digital performance royalties.

SoundExchange sued this summer, claiming the streamer stopped paying in 2017. By Bill Donahue Streaming platform Slacker owes SoundExchange nearly $10 million in unpaid performance royalties, ...

SoundExchange today announced the promotion of Colin Rushing to Chief Legal Officer. With this promotion, Rushing will now lead SoundExchange’s business development strategy in addition to overseeing ...

A federal court has dismissed SoundExchange’s $150 million lawsuit against SiriusXM, throwing a major wrench into how royalty compliance is enforced across the audio industry, stripping the royalty ...

Also, SoundExchange currently holds at least $200 million in royalties owed to non-member artists. Most of these artists are unaware of the existence of this relatively new digital performance right ...

SoundExchange is also seeking to recover other unpaid royalties revealed in an audit of SiriusXM that it says showed the company had taken certain other improper deductions to reduce its calculation ...

2024 Distributions to Artists and Rights Owners Topped $1B In the fourth quarter of 2024, SoundExchange distributed $248.6 million to creators, bringing the company's full year gross distributions to ...

Here keyboardist Justin Wiseman of The Rocketboys reveals how royalties earned from SoundExchange helped revitalize his independent band in its darkest hour, and why other independent artists should ...

Pandora cofounder Tim Westergren would love to slash the high performance royalties that cost his business dearly. “Last year, we paid over half of our gross revenues in royalties just from ...

This post is part of an ongoing effort to crowd-source a repeating feature in Forbes magazine entitled Names You Need to Know. We are looking for the people, places, products and ideas that will have ...

Fred Wilhelms, a Nashville entertainment lawyer -- whom music writer Dave Marsh once called "the (music) industry's ethicist-in-chief if the industry had ethics" -- has written a letter to ...