APRA AMCOS Posts Record-Breaking Annual Revenue, Distributions

SYDNEY, Australia — AC/DC, integer streaming and that loveable bluish heeler Bluey helped propulsion APRA AMCOS’s full-year gross and distributions into unchartered territory.

The Australasian rights enactment this week posted gross of A$787.9 cardinal for 2024-25, up 6.5% from the erstwhile fiscal year, with nett distributable gross astatine A$683.4 million, up 7.8% year-on-year, besides an all-time result.

For the reporting period, the group’s disbursal to gross ratio was reduced to 13.26% from 14.32%.

Based connected caller results, the A$800 cardinal gross milestone should beryllium crushed successful the adjacent yearly report, and the magical A$1 cardinal fig is connected the adjacent horizon.

Presented this week during the 3rd yearly SXSW Sydney, APRA AMCOS’s Year In Review is broadly solid, and possibly spectacular, surely for Subscription Video connected Demand, which includes Netflix, Disney+, and Apple TV, the “standout” class that grew by 15.7% to A$88.2 million, fueled by increases successful subscription charges and a rising basal of subscribers.

Digital was the juggernaut for APRA AMCOS, generating A$404.3 million, up 9.5%, portion concern for nationalist performance, lifted by 1.1% to A$133.9 million.

Australian crowds came retired for local superstars Cold Chisel, Dom Dolla, Kylie Minogue, and The Kid LAROI, and for large planetary artists Coldplay, Luke Combs and Pearl Jam.

Music “exports” was different beardown suit. Homegrown songwriters and composers are “still hitting the large clip globally,” notes APRA AMCOS, pointing to AC/DC’s Power Up European circuit to Bluey‘s flying precocious antics successful the U.S. for helping assistance planetary gross to A$98.8 million, up 14.8% year-on-year.

One achy point, however, is the ongoing evaporation of streaming gross from section content, contempt the clamor to streaming platforms successful afloat twelvemonth 2025. Revenue from tv and vigor licensing dipped, too.

Consumption of euphony successful Australia, some connected euphony streaming and User Generated Content (UGC) services, has grown by 50% since FY21, though, “alarmingly,” the percent of depletion that relates to section songwriter and composer contented successful that aforesaid play has declined by 31% to conscionable 9.5% of full euphony streaming implicit the past 5 years, APRA AMCOS reports, and 25.4% successful UGC implicit the past 3 years.

The results “reflect our absorption connected work – increasing gross crossed each channel, sharpening operational efficiency, deploying astute exertion that works for our concern and members, delivering meaningful originative programs and celebrating our members’ unthinkable success,” comments Dean Ormston, CEO of APRA AMCOS.

“They besides corroborate what we already know: Australians and New Zealanders are world-leading euphony fans. We devour much euphony per capita than astir anyplace other connected the planet, yet the quality for our members to beryllium seen and heard is becoming much hard each year.”

Aussies are “hearing and discovering little section music,” reads a connection from the PRO, a world that was brought into crisp absorption with the full-year ARIA Charts for 2024, and triple j’s Hottest 100, some of which were dominated by trans-Atlantic artists.

The crisp “collapse” successful clicks for section contented connected streaming platforms implicit 5 years “isn’t happening due to the fact that our euphony isn’t bully enough, and our surging export revenues beryllium our artists are among the champion successful the world,” Ormston continues. “They’re penning hits, filling venues internationally and competing astatine the highest level. The endowment is undeniable. Our platforms are borderless, but algorithms favour standard and planetary repertoire predominate by default.”

APRA AMCOS represents much than 128,000 songwriters, composers and euphony steadfast members. Splitting the bodies, APRA passed the half-billion-dollar fig for the archetypal clip with gross of A$521.3 million, up from A$498.6 million. AMCOS surpassed A$250 cardinal for the archetypal time, reporting A$266.6 million, up from A$241.4 million.

Read the afloat study astatine apraamcos.com.au/year-in-review.