American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) In The News

Catch Point is offering upfront cash payments to acquire songwriters’ PRO income streams

Catch Point has previously acquired interests in thousands of sound recordings publishing rights since it launched in 2020

Analysis

78% of small-to-midsize businesses in the US currently misuse personal streaming accounts to play music to their customers. It’s costing the music industry $1.38 billion per year.

Ola Sars highlights an important opportunity in publicly-played music for rightsholders

News

Rimas Publishing strikes partnership with music business management software provider Reprtoir

Reprtoir's AI-powered platform helps music publishers streamline operations, manage catalogs, and optimize royalty accounting

Analysis

3 observations on… the sale of BMI (and Google’s entrance into music rights management)

On BMI's fraternizing with CapitalG (aka Alphabet's fund), plus a windfall for radio broadcasters, and $100 million of money going to songwriters and publishers

Analysis News

From Universal’s missing catalog on TikTok Music to Graham Nash’s catalog sale… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

Analysis News

BMI will pay songwriters and publishers a smaller portion of its revenues as a for-profit company – while upping its own margin from 10% to 15% of collections. Will its members tolerate this change?

New revelations from Michael O'Neill shows that BMI is planning to increase its retained revenues by a third

Interviews

‘The music industry has to be open to change’.

Andrea C. Martin reflects on her four years as CEO at PRS for Music and outlines the collection society’s objectives under her tenure, which include reaching £1 billion in annual payouts to songwriters, composers and publishers…

News

Reservoir acquires catalog of Latin Music hitmaker Rudy Perez

Agreement also includes a publishing deal for his future works