CISAC Reports Record ’24 Music Collections As Digital, Live Rise

A breakdown of live and background royalty collections during 2024, when the former category posted 15.1% YoY growth. Photo Credit: CISAC

CISAC has reported a 7.2% jump in global music collections for 2024, when a digital boost helped fuel double-digit increases in the U.S., China, India, and Spain.

These and other stats come from CISAC’s newly released 2025 Global Collections Report, which points to just shy of €14 billion (currently $16.2 billion) in across-the-board collections for member organizations during 2024.

Representing a 6.6% year-over-year (YoY) improvement, the sum reflects the full-year results of 227 CISAC members – some operating outside the music space. But music kicked in the lion’s share of the cumulative collections at a record $14.53 billion/€12.59 billion (up 7.2% YoY), per the resource.

As mentioned (and unsurprisingly in light of streaming’s ongoing emerging-markets expansion), a record digital showing ($6.24 billion/€5.41 billion, up 10.8% YoY and 596% from 2015) contributed to the music total.

Part of the boom is also coming from an increasingly borderless collaboration environment. For years, geographically-separated producers and artists have been whipping up smash hits — despite working on different continents. Vivek Patel, CEO of fast-rising collaboration and workflow platform OmMuse, told DMN that great creativity can thrive when the details recede into the background.

“Music collaboration thrives when artists can share high-quality files instantly, keeping the creative process fluid and uninterrupted—whether they’re in the same studio or working remotely,” Patel explained.

Beyond digital formats and streaming, live and background performance royalties likewise hit a record during 2024, increasing 10.4% YoY to $3.90 billion/€3.38 billion, per CISAC.

Behind the figure, background collections came in at $1.25 billion/€1.08 billion, against $1.40 billion/€1.21 billion from live; karaoke and movie-theater usages factor into the overarching category but are distinct therein.

In the bigger picture, background and live have risen by 19.6% and 50.9% since 2017, respectively. And established markets including the U.S. are factoring heavily into the ongoing growth.

“In 2024,” CISAC pointed out, “Canada and the USA recorded the fastest growth in live & background collections globally, with revenue rising by +15.7% year-on-year, surpassing even the region’s digital growth rate of +14%.”

Keeping the focus on individual markets for a moment, U.S. music collections totaled $3.62 billion/€3.14 billion last year (+10.9% YoY) – up a cool 104% from 2015 and 62% from 2020. Moreover, digital rode its mentioned double-digit growth en route to accounting for 45.1% of total collections in the States and Canada last year.

Other noteworthy music-collection figures came from Spain (up 12% YoY to $345 million/€299 million), India (up 40.5% YoY to $92 million/€80 million), and Turkey (up 49% to $43 million/€37 million) in 2024.

Back to last year’s overall music collections, the combined television and radio contribution increased by a more modest 1.2% YoY to $3.95 billion/€3.42 billion.

CD and video ($407 million/€353 million, down 7% YoY), private copying ($307 million/€266 million, down 4.3% YoY), and other sources ($99 million/€86 million, up 32.8% YoY) largely rounded out the music side.

Elsewhere in the report, CISAC higher-ups explored the income threat posed by artificial intelligence – and forecasted a material creative-sector revenue spike for gen AI across 2024 ($3.5 billion/€3 billion) and 2028 ($73.9 billion/€64 billion). More pressingly, of the 2028 sum, $46 billion/€40 billion would derive from AI music.

“CISAC is now intensifying its lobbying efforts at the global level, through WIPO, UNESCO and national governments, to secure a future where human creativity is protected, valued and rewarded,” the organization noted.