by Cara Cunningham | Nov 12, 2025 | Front Page, Media
News of the deal arrives amid an ongoing feud between the parties over reduced publisher royalty rates in the U.S., a dispute that began in March 2024. Spotify and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) have joined forces to create a new opt-in license for...
by Cara Cunningham | Oct 24, 2025 | Front Page, Media
By Jessica Nicholson (via Billboard) The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) held its largest celebration for country songwriters of the year on Thursday night (Oct. 23) during the NMPA Gold & Platinum Gala, held at the Country Music Hall of Fame and...
by Cara Cunningham | Oct 23, 2025 | Front Page, Media
Spotify, YouTube, Apple, TikTok – which streaming services support songwriters and which fight fair pay? NMPA president and CEO David Israelite explains. Irving Azoff recently slammed YouTube as “by far the worst offender” when it comes to paying creators...
by Cara Cunningham | Jun 20, 2025 | Media
By Jem Aswad (via Variety) 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 dollars every year, in a letter released Friday...
by Danielle Suber | Jun 18, 2025 | Front Page, Media
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 presentation: a major show in the music business with performances from top artists,...
by Danielle Suber | May 28, 2025 | Front Page, Media, Uncategorized
This year, Kacey Musgraves will be honored with the Songwriter Icon award at the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) annual meeting. The NMPA will also honor longtime Nashville hitmaker Rhett Akins as its Non-Performing Songwriter Icon Award recipient this...
