For many years the Australian Music Performance Committee (AMPCOM) was a voluntary association comprised of representatives of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), the Australian Music Publishers’ Association Ltd, the Musicians’ Union of Australia and the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
AMPCOM’s objectives were:
- To maximise the exposure of Australian music on commercial radio, having due regard to the availability of appropriate broadcast-worthy material and the needs and preferences of the Australian listening public.
- To monitor the commercial radio industry’s observance of the Australian Music Code of Practice (the Code).
- To monitor the music industry’s production of Australian music performances and composition.
- To monitor the effects of the Code on performers, composers, producers of sound recordings, musicians and broadcasters.
- To review the operation of the Code and to recommend changes to it as considered necessary.
- To consider such other matters, relevant to the above objects, as the Committee thinks fit.
Each year AMPCOM published annual reports (The AMPCOM Report) outlining the compliance by the commercial radio industry with the Commercial Radio Codes of Practice that relate to the playing of Australian music on radio. Those reports are still available below.
In March 2017 the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) registered an updated Code which effectively discontinued the AMPCOM.
Section 5 of the revised Code sets out provisions which require commercial radio stations to play a certain proportion of Australian music. The Code can be viewed here.
ARIA will still make available the compliance reports (ie ‘content returns’) prepared by CRA annually, together with the information on the production of new Australian music. As they become available, those reports will be accessible from this page.
Commercial Radio Australia summary of code compliance 2022/23
Production of New Australian Music as estimated by ARIA, year ending June 2023:
The figures for the 2023 report are as follows:
| |
This Year |
% |
Last Year |
% |
| Aust tracks released |
|
|
|
|
| Ambient |
1364 |
5.0 |
357 |
1.9 |
| Childrens |
420 |
1.5 |
131 |
0.7 |
| Classical |
794 |
2.9 |
842 |
4.4 |
| Comedy / Spoken word |
2 |
0.0 |
0 |
0 |
| Country / Folk |
2186 |
8.0 |
1827 |
9.6 |
| Easy / MOR / Nostalgia |
352 |
1.3 |
288 |
1.5 |
| Jazz |
155 |
0.6 |
85 |
0.4 |
| Rock, Pop, Dance |
21725 |
79.1 |
15182 |
80.0 |
| Soul / R&B |
352 |
1.3 |
233 |
1.3 |
| Traditional |
109 |
0.4 |
35 |
0.2 |
| Total |
27459 |
100.0 |
18980 |
100 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Aus release schedule |
|
|
|
|
| Australian v Overseas |
18.00% |
|
18.00% |
|
| Tracks released |
27459 |
|
21736 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Total tracks released |
156922 |
|
123075 |
|
Actual track (physical & digital) numbers have again been used this year instead of assuming a set number of tracks per single, album etc. We do not receive the track details in all cases so it’s possible to have a release but no tracks.
Genre classifications are determined by the record companies in their catalogue updates. There was a significant number of items with no genre allocations as we did not receive any.
Find previous AMPCOM reports here (external link)
