In 2025, responsibility played a central role at Gramex, as the sustainability programme was implemented in a comprehensive manner for the first time. At the same time, Gramex’s core operations related to the management and distribution of remunerations collected for the use of music continued steadily and efficiently in a changing operating environment.

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Rap music already caught Spekti’s interest during his upper secondary school years. After completing his military service, the Finnish rap group Trilogia was formed. Spekti first heard about Gramex when Trilogia collaborated with another Finnish rap group, Fintelligens.

Singer-songwriter Maija Vilkkumaa wants to build value and appreciation for pop music - and thus success.

Gramex paid out around €4.5 million in the spring settlement of 24.3.2026. Around 9 300 domestic music performers and producers represented by Gramex received compensation.

When Gramex and JVG launched the Value of Music campaign at the end of October 2025, few could have anticipated the phenomenon it would create: the campaign reached a total of 2.37 million people on social media alone. Yet the conversation about the value of music continues, even though the campaign has now been successfully concluded.

The gender distribution in the Finnish music industry is still changing very slowly. The proportion of women among music creators, performers and producers only grows in small increments from year to year. However, the distributions paid to women are increasing more than the proportion of women. Although the differences are still large, both Teosto’s and Gramex’s statistics show that women’s visibility and earnings in the Finnish music industry are increasing.

The artist Vahtera, who is currently working on her third album, believes that the joy of making music stays alive when you are surrounded by good people.

Finland’s largest and most prestigious annual music industry awards, the Emma Gala, will take place this year at Espoo Metro Arena on Saturday, 7 March. Gramex is once again partnering in the Newcomer of the Year award category. Gramex has sponsored the Newcomer of the Year category in previous years as well. Gramex has sponsored the Newcomer of the Year category in previous years.

The first payment of the year will be made in week 13. Please make sure you send us your audio notifications for all songs already released by 1 March.