Summary

Following the NMPA's claim that publishers and songwriters have lost nearly $500 million in royalties due to bundling, Billboard crunched the numbers. In June, National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) executives reported at the organization’s annual meeting that U.S. music publishers and their songwriters have missed out on nearly $500 million in mechanical royalty payments since Spotify and Amazon rolled all of their paid music subscribers into bundled plans.

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