MUSIC PUBLISHING

Music publishing is the jewel in the industry ecosystem. In 2023, the US market reached $6.7 billion, while global revenue exceeded $13.5 billion, continuing to grow as new technologies emerge. In the past 30 years, the industry has faced challenges from the internet, digital music formats, streaming and smartphones, but in most cases adapted better than record companies.

Trilogy Media Group and its subsidiaries collects income from all parts of the global copyright world. We remain direct members of all north American societies and with most European either through membership or worldwide through a subsidiary or associate.

Since 2010, modern computers have enabled performing rights organizations to move away from the sampling system*, allowing payment for each performance. In the US, the difference is 750 million performances on the sample system to over 500 billion now. A $10 payment under the sampling system was cut down to mere fractions of a cent because of the large revenue pool dilution. Twenty years ago, statements for a catalog might run a few hundred pages; now they can reach a thousand or more for just one work.

Errors and mistakes too often blight society's data due to inconsistent reporting, foreign translations, claims by other authors, and human error. This negatively impacts revenue. Our copyright team has extensive experience with international collection societies, and know where to spot, rectify and unblock revenue. We have recovered tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Generative AI can effectively analyze billions of performance reports, find mistakes, and fix them before distribution. AI offers both challenges and opportunities.

*the sample system only paid on random days of the month, depending on the broadcaster. This was due to the insufficient ability of computers to process such vast amounts of reported usage