União Brasileira de Compositores was founded in 22 June 1942 as a union, specialized in the administration of the rights of musical composers, mainly aiming at the defense and distribution of royalties income, and cultural development.
[1][2] Its members include composers, authors, music publishers, interpreters, musicians and phonographic producers (record labels).
One of its main activities today is to represent its associates with ECAD – Central Office of Collection of Copyrights,[4] created in 1973.
Since 6 January 2019 UBC began publishing rankings on the songs that perform the most by counting streaming in the country from the exclusive data of Crowley Broadcast Analysis, they being the Top 10 Radios and the Top 10 Streaming[9] to give more prominence to composers from Brazil and abroad.
On the same date that the Top 10 Streaming was released the organization also started publishing a ranking of the 10 most played songs on Brazilian radio, also by data from Crowley Broadcast Analysis.