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

SESAC’s performance license rates for the 2023-2026 period will have a blanket fee of 0.2824% of revenue, a 10.4% increase from the prior rate.

SESAC holds licensing rights to numerous songs by artists like Neil Diamond, Jack Harlow, Ariana Grande, Hillary Scott of Lady A, Blanco Brown, and others mentioned above.

YouTube reached a deal with performing rights organization SESAC on new licensing terms, which will restore music videos for artists that went dark on the platform over the weekend.. Songs by ...

Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S. due to a legal dispute between the platform and the performing rights ...

A 2019 Morningstar analysis found that SESAC has had a 12.9% annual growth rate since 1994. While that report didn’t cite revenue from those earlier years, other SESAC-related documents obtained ...

SESAC, which “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers,” has not yet commented ...

Due to a licensing dispute with SESAC, a ton of songs have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music in the US. YouTube remains in “active conversations with SESAC and are hoping to reach a ...

Songwriters and music publishers have struck a compromise with SESAC that puts the Music Modernization Act back on the fast track to becoming law this year. The Music Modernization Act, the first ...

Throughout almost two decades, songwriter and producer Luciano Luna has stood out as one of the most prolific artists behind the scenes in regional Mexican music, with songs like “Te Hubieras ...

SESAC, which has been under majority ownership by private equity firm Rizvi Traverse since December 2012, is ready to grow. That’s the word coming out of the organization, which just picked John ...