The number of performing rights organizations has proliferated in recent years, leaving some venues struggling to pay fees ...

By Ethan Millman Music Editor Apple Music’s top executive Oliver Schusser weighed in on the cost of music during a keynote interview at the National Music Publisher Association’s ... including Spotify ...

Although subscribers can opt out, the National Music Publishers Association estimates that the bundling cost songwriters and publishers roughly $230 million in lost royalties last year alone.

FKA twigs has inked a global publishing deal with independent music publisher Kobalt. Her latest album, “Eusexua,” released earlier this year, became the highest-charting album of her career (No. 24), ...

Businesses say the rising licensing costs have become overwhelming, and some question whether it’s even worth playing music at all.

While it is technically an annual conference for a trade organization, the National Music Publishers’ Association’s membership meeting has become more like a TV network’s upfront ...

Two senators called on the FTC to investigate Spotify over a bundling plan that reduces royalty payments by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Senators Marsha Blackburn and Ben Ray Luján bitterly criticized Spotify’s music-audiobooks bundling plan, which lowers royalties to songwriters and music publishers by hundreds of millions of ...

Two U.S. senators have requested that the FTC investigate Spotify due to allegations that the company bundled its subscription without user consent, while also undercompensating creators.

At the 2025 National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) annual meeting in New York, Apple Music’s Global Head criticized competitors and their ‘free music’ offerings. “It’s crazy ...

Music publishers and social media platform X could be nearing a settlement on their two-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit, according to new documents recently filed in federal court in ...