Gramex will pay four royalties to music performers and producers in 2024.

Leevi and The Leavings' Somewhere There Must Still Be Christmas was the most played song on commercial radio stations last Christmas. Wham, the overwhelming number one on the previous charts, fell to number four. The Gramex Christmas statistics list the top twenty Christmas songs played on commercial radio between November and December.

Elton John's old hit Diamonds hit the top ten of the UK album charts this month. The reason was a children's toy called Yoto.

Gramex paid over 5 million euros in the Christmas distribution on December 10th. Approximately 8,700 domestic music performers and producers represented by Gramex received compensation.

The last statement of the year will be paid on Tuesday 10.12.2024. The amounts are now visible in MyGramex.

The outage affects Gramex's online store (shop.gramex.fi) and radio reporting.

A number of Finnish summer festivals recently announced their first performers. However, the 2025 festival summer may be less successful than previous years, and it's not the event organisers who are to blame.

Last month, the first Finnish seven-inch vinyl in almost 30 years was produced in Kyläsaari, Helsinki, along with the first ever Finnish record pressed from biovinyl.

TikTok accuses indie collective Merlin of streaming fraud, and seeks to bypass Merlin's collective bargaining power by striking individual deals with independent labels. What does this mean for indie music creators and publishers?

Fall is an active time on the record release front. GramexPress rounded up some of the albums that have been or will be released this month, with sounds ranging from pop to metal and rock to rap.