{"id":1570,"date":"2026-04-16T17:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:30:24","slug":"music-publishing-is-not-dead-songwriters-will-always-document-the-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/music-publishing-is-not-dead-songwriters-will-always-document-the-human-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music publishing is not dead. Songwriters will always document the human condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>HISTORIC REVENUES:\u00a0A Message from ASCAP CEO\u00a0Elizabeth Matthews<\/h2>\n<p><strong>I am thrilled to announce that ASCAP delivered another year of record-breaking revenues and royalty distributions in 2025 to its music creator members. ASCAP delivered $1.945 billion in revenue in the 2025 calendar year, an increase of $110 million, or 6.0% over 2024 with $1.759 billion available for royalty distributions, up by $63 million, or 3.7%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the highest amount of revenue and royalty distributions ever historically reported by ASCAP. ASCAP operates without debt and has the lowest overhead rate in the US at 10%. ASCAP is the only US PRO not owned by private equity or outside investors, meaning that ASCAP\u2019s songwriter, composer and publisher members are the sole beneficiaries of ASCAP\u2019s financial growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORIC REVENUES:\u00a0A Message from ASCAP CEO\u00a0Elizabeth Matthews I am thrilled to announce that ASCAP delivered another year of record-breaking revenues and royalty distributions in 2025 to its music creator members. ASCAP delivered $1.945 billion in revenue in the 2025 calendar year, an increase of $110 million, or 6.0% over 2024 with $1.759 billion available for &#8230; <a title=\"Music publishing is not dead. Songwriters will always document the human condition\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/music-publishing-is-not-dead-songwriters-will-always-document-the-human-condition\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music publishing is not dead. Songwriters will always document the human condition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}