{"id":104992,"date":"2025-06-24T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=104992"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:18:01","slug":"u-s-music-publishing-see-a-decade-of-double-digit-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/u-s-music-publishing-see-a-decade-of-double-digit-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. music publishing see a decade of double digit growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Image credit: Siora Photography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the tenth year in a row, U.S. music publishing revenue has grown by a 2-digit percentage after battles to reclaim lost music publishing income.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A remarkable $7.04 billion. That’s the NMPA’s (National Music Publishers’ Association) newly revealed data for 2024. That was the figure of music publishing<\/a> revenues generated in the United States last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figures were revealed by the NMPA and their CEO David Israelite at a recent meeting. They revealed that 2024’s music publishing revenues represent the 10th year in a row of double digit growth. The figures grew 13.41% from 2024, surpassing the U.S. recorded streaming revenues which grew just 3.6%<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The growth of music publishing revenues in recent years hasn’t come from nowhere. Israelite points to the battles of recent years to get sources not paying for licensing to pay: “We fought, we won, and now nearly $2 billion of our revenue last year came from these sources.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israelite continues: “This incredible growth story is in spite of the fact that 72% of our revenue is under oppressive government price controls, which have denied songwriters and music publishers the true value of their intellectual property.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NMPA point towards the impact of the Mechanical Licensing Collective<\/a>, an organisation launched in 2021 and designated by the U.S. copyright office to administer mechanical licenses across digital music stores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is the MLC? Mechanical Licensing Collective explained<\/a><\/blockquote>