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# SoundExchange distributions topped $242.5M in Q2 2025
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/soundexchange-distributions-topped-242-million-in-q2-2025/
- Published: 2025-08-25T11:15:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-25T11:56:13.000Z
- Description: SoundExchange distributions topped $241.5 million in digital royalties to creators from April to June 2025. Combined with the $253.2 million distributed in the first quarter of the year, ir annual distributions for the first half of 2025 are $494.7 million.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Business, Radio & Satellite, DIY, DIY musicians, music, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

SoundExchange distributions topped $241.5 million in digital royalties to creators from April to June 2025\. Combined with the $253.2 million distributed in the first quarter of the year, ir annual distributions for the first half of 2025 are $494.7 million.

![SoundExchange distributions](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-soundexchange-com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/q2-2025-payments-blog-header.png)

Since 2003, [SoundExchange](https://www.soundexchange.com/?ref=hypebot.com) distributions topped more than $12 billion – a milestone reached in February of this year – directly to more than 700,000 music creators.

SoundExchange is the only U.S. entity designated by Congress to [administer](https://www.hypebot.com/soundexchange-ai-music-registry-protecting-creators-rights/) the Section 114 sound recording license which include SiriusXM, streaming radio and lean back music services like Pandora. SoundExchange collects and distributes these royalties to artists and rights owners

*Bruce Houghton*