{"id":15731,"date":"2026-08-08T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/myanmar-39-8-million-internet-users-biggest-spotify-artist-86000-monthly-listeners\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:09:07","slug":"myanmar-39-8-million-internet-users-biggest-spotify-artist-86000-monthly-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/myanmar-39-8-million-internet-users-biggest-spotify-artist-86000-monthly-listeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Has 39.8 Million Internet Users. 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The distance between them is a rights and distribution problem, not a talent problem.<\/p>\n<h2>The copyright law only switched on in 2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Copyright Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15\/2019) was enacted on 24 May 2019 but did not commence until <strong>31 October 2023<\/strong>, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tilleke.com\/insights\/myanmar-begins-enforcement-of-new-copyright-law-and-rules\/\">Tilleke and Gibbins<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The enabling Copyright Rules landed under Ministry of Commerce Notification No. 70\/2023, dated 23 October 2023, eight days before commencement.<\/li>\n<li>Registration now runs through the Intellectual Property Department, filed electronically, in person or by post.<\/li>\n<li>Terms: life plus 50 years for musical works, 50 years for performers, 50 years from publication for phonogram producers.<\/li>\n<li>Myanmar is a WTO TRIPS member but is <strong>not<\/strong> a party to the Berne Convention, so foreign protection hinges on first or near-simultaneous publication in Myanmar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three thousand copy songs<\/h2>\n<p>Writing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iplink-asia.com\/article-detail.php?id=1422\">IPLINK Asia<\/a> in December 2025, Laavanya Jain describes &#8220;Copy Thachin,&#8221; the long-running practice of re-recording global hits with Burmese lyrics and releasing them as local product.<\/p>\n<p>Jain puts the figure at more than 3,000 copied songs normalised as local music under the 1914 statute, and estimates that piracy and corruption combined have drained over USD 1 billion a year from Myanmar&#8217;s film and music sector.<\/p>\n<p>The old law&#8217;s definition of a musical work also excluded digitally created content. A producer working in a DAW in 2019 had thinner protection than a session player in 1975.<\/p>\n<h2>The chapter nobody has filled<\/h2>\n<p>CMO means collective management organisation, the body that licenses public performance and broadcast use and pays writers and performers their share.<\/p>\n<p>Sections 60 to 62 of the 2019 law create the legal slot for one. Nobody has filled it with a functioning, audited society. Jain&#8217;s assessment is blunt: Myanmar has no collecting body with operating experience.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the recording side, the money that flows from streaming platforms to whoever controls the master, as the only reliable rail in the country.<\/p>\n<h2>Home listening is legally awkward<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook and its associated apps have been blocked since 2021, which matters in a market where discovery historically ran on Facebook video.<\/li>\n<li>A cybersecurity law took effect on 1 January 2025 penalising unauthorised VPN use, with penalties of up to six months in prison and fines up to 2 million kyats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/myanmar\/2025\/01\/02\/cybersecurity-law-vpn\/\">reported by Radio Free Asia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Social media identities stood at 21.0 million in October 2025, only 38.2 percent of the population, well below the 72.5 percent internet figure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The consequence: a meaningful share of a Myanmar artist&#8217;s audience sits in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the United States and the United Kingdom, listening on platforms that pay at those markets&#8217; rates.<\/p>\n<h2>What actually pays a Myanmar artist in 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Diaspora streams settle at export payout rates. That is the whole economic argument for getting delivery right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Register the work with the IPD anyway.<\/strong> Protection is automatic, but a certificate is what you hand a lawyer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Own your ISRCs.<\/strong> ISRC means International Standard Recording Code, the identifier that ties a stream anywhere in the world back to your master.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deliver beyond Spotify.<\/strong> YouTube Music, Apple Music, JOOX, Boomplay and the regional stores where your diaspora actually listens.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Split at source.<\/strong> With no CMO to reconcile against, per-collaborator splits configured at delivery are the only clean paper trail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>InterSpace Distribution ships DDEX-standard deliveries to the regional platforms majors-focused distributors skip. DDEX means Digital Data Exchange, the metadata standard that keeps your credits intact between your hard drive and a store in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar&#8217;s neighbours are further along on the same curve. <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/cambodia-has-10-8-million-internet-users-and-no-official-chart-its-biggest-rapper-lives-on-youtube\/\">Cambodia has no official chart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/indonesia-rp70-billion-unclaimed-music-royalties-two-million-song-uses-no-owner\/\">Indonesia is sitting on Rp70 billion in unclaimed royalties<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/six-southeast-asian-countries-now-share-one-official-chart-only-four-dsps-feed-it\/\">six Southeast Asian countries now share a single official chart<\/a> fed by four DSPs.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar is not on that chart. The law that would put it there has been in force for under three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myanmar music distribution runs on a half-built rail: the 2019 Copyright Law only commenced in October 2023, no collecting society is operating, and VPN rules squeeze home listening. The country&#8217;s top Spotify act has under 86,000 monthly listeners. 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