SoundExchange Celebrates Decade in Digital Music Industry Organization Reveals Data from its “10 Years in Play” SoundExchange, the independent nonprofit performance rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties for digital radio, is celebrating 10 years of propelling the music industry forward. The organization is marking the occasion by revealing data from “10 Years in Play.”In just a decade, SoundExchange has put more than $1.5 billion into music creators’ pockets. In fact, the organization’s third-quarter 2013 payments of $153.7 million mark the highest quarterly payment to recording artists and record labels to date and reflects tremendous growth in the industry.