Recording Academy

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $5.4M in lobbying spend across 34 quarterly filings, Recording Academy is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 16 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$5.4M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

View as table

Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$869K
2019	$799K
2020	$598K
2021	$469K
2022	$634K
2023	$634K
2024	$716K
2025	$713K

Issues Lobbied

Trade Copyright/Patent Immigration Education Communications Natural Resources Budget/Appropriations Taxation Consumer Issues Small Business Unemployment Health Issues Foreign Relations Law Enforcement Tourism Science/Technology

Lobbying Firms

Recording Academy (FKA National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences)

Lobbyists

Todd Dupler Michael Lewan Daryl Friedman Montana Miller Kimberley Alton

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Trade, Copyright/Patent, Immigration, Education, Communications and 11 more

•NAFTA- to protect copyright and IP in trade agreements

•Opposed H.Con.Res.13/S.Con.Res.6 the Local Radio Freedom Act
•Support H.R 881, The Allocation for Music Producers (AMP) Act
•Support H.R 1836, The Fair Play Fair Pay Act
•Support H.R 1914, PROMOTE Act 20

•Support S.2466 ARTS Act

•Support for the arts and music education in appropriations

•Preserve protections for the use of wireless microphones in the FCCs planned incentive auction for broadcast spectrum.
•Oppose H.R 3685, Radio Consumer Protection Act