As we look back on the first half of a challenging year, we’d all hoped to be in a different place. — A global pandemic continues to rock our communities. Spring’s promise of rapid reopening has given way to Delta’s renewed uncertainty. For millions of Americans, from restaurant workers to frontline health care heroes, the daily push to keep moving forward carries on. And just as music led the way on resources…

La música latina sigue brillando e iluminando el camino para todos (Por favor, desplácese hacia abajo para leer nuestra traducción en española) 2020 tested our nation. The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted awful loss. It challenged us to work together — and to hold onto hope. The music community came together to…

2020 was no ordinary year. It was a year of historically painful personal losses and disconnection. But it also marked yet another chapter in the story of music’s power and wonder — and the unstoppable creative vitality of the people who make it. In 2020 we grieved epochal losses of giants from every corner of…

With today’s release of the RIAA’s full-year 2019 revenue report for U.S. recorded music, two things are abundantly clear: Paid subscription streaming is driving the return to growth; and Achieving long-term sustainable success still requires good public policies. Driven by paid streaming, U.S. recorded music revenues grew by 13 percent…

Mitch Glazier, Chairman and CEO, RIAA — The headline out of RIAA’s latest data on the music ecosystem is clear (and to anyone who’s ever had to separate teenagers and their earbuds, no great surprise) — the streaming economy continues to accelerate, strengthen, and mature. Everywhere you look, our industry’s embrace of new technologies, approaches, and platforms…

Brandi Carlile. Travis Scott. Dua Lipa. Drake. Luke Combs. Kacey Musgraves. Khalid. J Balvin. Dan + Shay. Willie Nelson. Cardi B. Rosanne Cash. Carrie Underwood. Lil Wayne. Ariana Grande. Boz Scaggs. 21 Pilots. Camila Cabello. BTS. Hayley Kiyoko. These were just some of the groundbreaking artists who partnered with their labels on new music released last year — and the list goes on and on. That tremendous output from the artist community fueled a historic milestone of 50 million subscriptions to music services, which in turn helped drive…

Music is timeless, although it’s sometimes tempting to think otherwise. Art evolves. Genres change. New artists break on the scene and bring us new music. And so it is today. Certainly, fans can enjoy artists’ music in ways never before imagined. These new forms of distribution are exciting and have…

Remarks at the 2018 MIDEM Music Conference — Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO, RIAA Over the past fifty years, the music business has gone from vinyl records to cassettes to 8-tracks to CDs to downloads to streams, and somehow back again to vinyl. Go figure. Throughout that time, I have had the privilege of representing the U.S. recording…

It was a jubilant spring day for the music community on April 25th as the United States House of Representatives voted 415–0 in favor of the Music Modernization Act (HR 5447), a series of legislative reforms (including the CLASSICS Act) that will lead to a more fair and equitable music…