ByteDance has chosen HFA’s Rumblefish—owned by SESAC—to handle data, licensing, and royalty management services to ByteDance ...

SESAC holds licensing rights to numerous songs by artists like Neil Diamond, Jack Harlow, Ariana Grande, Hillary Scott of Lady A, Blanco Brown, and others mentioned above.

SESAC’s performance license rates for the 2023-2026 period will have a blanket fee of 0.2824% of revenue, a 10.4% increase from the prior rate.

SESAC announced today that its arbitration with the Radio Music Licensing Committee has resulted in a rate 50 percent higher than the one recently negotiated by ASCAP, which it claimed is the rate ...

The SESAC arbitration will cover more than 10,000 radio stations in the US under the RMLC’s umbrella. The new rates apply retroactively to January 1, 2023, so stations that paid 2022 fees will ...

However, the situation seems somewhat inconsistent, as songs from other SESAC-affiliated artists like Kesha are still accessible. As of now, it remains uncertain when this issue will be resolved.

SESAC, which “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers,” has not yet commented ...

SESAC, which “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers,” has not yet commented ...

Due to a licensing dispute with SESAC, a ton of songs have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music in the US. YouTube remains in “active conversations with SESAC and are hoping to reach a ...

Songwriters and music publishers have struck a compromise with SESAC that puts the Music Modernization Act back on the fast track to becoming law this year. The Music Modernization Act, the first ...

See the main winners of the 2025 SESAC Latina Music Awards list below: Regional Mexican Songwriter of the Year. Alex Hernández. Pop/Latin Rhythm Songwriter of the Year. Lenny Tavárez.