Get Paid For Your Paid In-Person or Online Concerts
Get Paid For Your Free Online Concerts
Remember: SOCAN pays royalties to SOCAN songwriter, composer and publisher members for the use of their songs.
This means that SOCAN members stand to benefit most when they perform original songs during their performances since royalties are paid to the music creators, who often are not the performers.
When you are paid to perform, whether in-person or online, the promoter is required to pay a SOCAN license for that performance which SOCAN then distributes to the rightsholders of that music.
The royalties that you have rightfully earned may already be waiting for you.
Sign in to your SOCAN account. In the Performances & Repertoire tab, click Unidentified Performances, then Concerts with No Setlist. Find your concert, complete the submission by adding your setlist. Done! Consult the guide on to complete your submission.
Can’t find your concert in Concerts with No Setlist. Submit your setlists to initiate the payment process. Sign in to your SOCAN account and submit outstanding setlists using the Notification of Live Music Performance in the SOCAN Forms tab.
Paid In-person
If the submission is approved the rightsholders will receive their portion of license fees received from the promoter.
Paid Livesteam
If the submission is approved the rightsholders will receive their portion of license fees received from the promoter.
Get paid for your Facebook Live, Instagram Live, Twitch and YouTube performances. **Additional platforms will be added as they are licensed.
When you perform free online concerts, the platform is required to pay a SOCAN blanket license for the privilege of hosting music content which SOCAN then distributes to the rightsholders of that music.
Sign in to your SOCAN account and submit your setlists using the Notification of Live Music Performance in the SOCAN Forms tab the same way you’ve done in past for in-person concerts.
Online concert must be a livestream not a pre-recorded concert uploaded to the platform.
Each qualifying free concert will receive $75 total in performing right royalties. It is applied to all setlists provided and to a maximum of 30 concerts per quarter. The $75 is divided among all rightsholders of all songs performed at the event.
Remember when inputting information for online concerts:
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