Sound Exchange and The Recording Academy have partnered in advocating for legislation and educating the community about performance rights.

Introduced March 19, 2015 the Allocation for Music Producers Act or AMP Act (H.R. 1457) says this:

Did you know you may have royalties from your music out there that noone can find you to pay you?  SoundExchange is a non-profit entity that collects royalties for satellite radio, internet radio and cable television.  They are the official entity that collects royalties for both artists and record labels in the United States.  The SoundExchange website has a searchabel database of eveyone that is owed royalties.

SoundExchange is the non-profit performance rights organization that collects royalties from satellite radio, internet radio, cable TV music channels and similar platforms for streaming sound recordings.  SoundExchangeis  the sole entity in the United States to collect and distribute these digital performance royalties for artists, master rights owners, and independent artists who record and own their masters.