{"id":9128,"date":"2026-08-01T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnam-collected-a-record-vnd424-billion-in-music-royalties-from-1-july-every-cafe-in-hanoi-owes-a-share\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:12:27","slug":"vietnam-collected-a-record-vnd424-billion-in-music-royalties-from-1-july-every-cafe-in-hanoi-owes-a-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnam-collected-a-record-vnd424-billion-in-music-royalties-from-1-july-every-cafe-in-hanoi-owes-a-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Collected a Record VND424 Billion in Music Royalties. From 1 July, Every Cafe in Hanoi Owes a Share."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam&#8217;s cafes, karaoke rooms and hotel lobbies started paying for their background music on 1 July. Government Decree No. 134\/2026\/ND-CP is now in force, and it replaces negotiation with a formula.<\/p>\n<p>The annual fee multiplies a statutory base salary, which rose to VND2.53 million a month on the same date, by a coefficient tied to venue type and floor area.<\/p>\n<h2>What Decree 134 actually charges<\/h2>\n<p>CMO means Collective Management Organisation, the body licensed to collect public performance money on behalf of rights holders. Vietnam has two in play here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City pay 100% of the standard rate. Type-1 urban centres pay 80%, type-2 pay 50%, type-3 pay 20%, and remote or mountainous areas pay 10%.<\/li>\n<li>A 30 square metre cafe in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City lands at roughly VND2.4 million a year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnews.vn\/society\/1784250\/businesses-playing-music-for-customers-to-pay-copyright-fees-from-july-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viet Nam News<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is an annual ceiling of VND20 million regardless of how big the venue gets.<\/li>\n<li>Covered categories include beverage shops, restaurants, conference venues, karaoke bars, hotels, tourist accommodation and entertainment parks.<\/li>\n<li>The Vietnam Centre for Protection of Music Copyright (VCPMC) collects for composers and songwriters. The Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV) collects for producers and performers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The money was already at a record before the decree landed<\/h2>\n<p>VCPMC collected VND424 billion in 2025, about USD 16 million and an 8% year-on-year rise, per <a href=\"https:\/\/en.sggp.org.vn\/vietnamese-music-royalties-hit-historic-high-with-vnd424-billion-in-2025-post123169.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saigon Giai Phong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The northern region contributed VND211.4 billion, the southern branch VND212.8 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Performance and live entertainment collections grew 202% year on year.<\/li>\n<li>VCPMC distributed close to VND269 billion to rights holders, up 5% on 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Its authorised author network reached 7,207 writers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is the point worth sitting with. The fastest-growing royalty line in Vietnam last year was not streaming. It was people playing music in rooms.<\/p>\n<h2>Indonesia is fixing the same gap from the other end<\/h2>\n<p>Minister of Law Regulation No. 27 of 2025, issued on 7 August 2025, implements Government Regulation 56 of 2021 and puts the payment obligation squarely on event organisers and business owners, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rajahtannasia.com\/viewpoints\/regulatory-update-royalty-management-in-indonesias-music-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rajah &amp; Tann Asia<\/a> sets out. It names streaming, downloads, webcasts, video on demand and live event streaming as commercial digital uses.<\/p>\n<p>Several digital tariffs remain undetermined, which is why the system still feels unfinished on the ground. Writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/opinion\/2026\/07\/04\/anarchy-in-royalty-demystifying-performing-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jakarta Post<\/a> in July, Randy Levin Virgiawan called Indonesia&#8217;s royalty framework &#8220;painfully manual, opaque and overly centralized,&#8221; and singled out promoters who pay performers but ignore the songwriter debt owed through LMKN.<\/p>\n<h2>ASEAN is starting to standardise the plumbing<\/h2>\n<p>Indonesia hosted the first ASEAN CMO Forum in Bali on 10 April 2026, themed Collaborative Strategic Dialogue on Digital Royalty. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dgip.go.id\/artikel\/detail-artikel-berita\/forum-lmk-asean-lahirkan-empat-kesepakatan-tata-kelola-royalti-digital?kategori=liputan-humas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Directorate General of Intellectual Property<\/a> reported four agreements: a regional position on AI and music copyright, standing coordination between CMOs and governments, minimum standards for digital royalty reporting and distribution, and the forum itself as a permanent consultative mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta is pushing a draft instrument on digital royalty governance toward the 48th session of WIPO&#8217;s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, and has asked WIPO, CISAC and IFPI for global standards, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.antaranews.com\/news\/411937\/indonesia-calls-for-global-standards-in-music-royalty-governance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANTARA<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<h3>What an indie artist or label should do this quarter<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Register with the CMO in every market where your music is played publicly. Your distributor does not collect performance money for you, and no DSP payout includes it.<\/li>\n<li>Keep composition credits and recording credits separate in your metadata. Vietnam splits collection between VCPMC and RIAV on exactly that line.<\/li>\n<li>Check that your ISWC, the composition identifier, exists and is registered, not just your ISRC.<\/li>\n<li>If you license to a Southeast Asian brand, venue chain or drama soundtrack, treat the performance licence as a second revenue line, not an afterthought.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recording side is what a distributor delivers, and getting that side clean across <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vietnams-music-market-runs-on-zing-mp3-and-nhaccuatui-spotify-reaches-barely-1-in-4-listeners\/\">Zing MP3, NhacCuaTui and the platforms that actually carry Vietnamese listening<\/a> is still where most catalogues leak money. InterSpace Distribution delivers DDEX-native, which means Digital Data Exchange, the metadata standard that keeps writer and performer credits intact all the way to the DSP and, increasingly, to the CMO reading the same file.<\/p>\n<p>Related reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/top-music-distribution-platforms-for-vietnamese-artists\/\">Top Music Distribution Platforms for Vietnamese Artists<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/indonesian-music-now-owns-78-of-its-own-spotify-charts-sixty-percent-of-the-money-comes-from-abroad\/\">Indonesian Music Now Owns 78% of Its Own Spotify Charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vietnam&#8217;s Decree 134\/2026 took effect on 1 July, making cafes, karaoke bars and hotels pay music royalties by formula. VCPMC collected a record VND424 billion in 2025. 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