The German collective management organization added the Dutch company to its portfolio to better identify the music it needs to collect royalties on.
The organization also saw a slight dip in distributions, which fell 3.4% from 2021 to $959 million.
Seven of the world's largest collective management organizations improved their 2022 collections by an average of 19.4%.
Jose Teran is the first of two YouTube fraudsters to be sentenced. His partner is schedule for sentencing later this summer.
Chapman, who is credited as the song's sole writer of "Fast Car," also owns its publishing rights.
President/CEO David Israelite says performance revenue fell below 50% of total revenue for the first time due to "significant" growth in other categories.
The terms of the deal, which ended litigation over unpaid royalties, would “make the average person shake her head in disbelief.”
A2IM president Richard James Burgess believes problems with the current rate-setting process fall disproportionately on independent creators and companies.
In new filings, the feds asked a judge to order the two companies to hand over money to help pay Kelly's victims.
The digital collections society expects double-digit revenue growth this year.
