With SOCAN Get Set. Get Paid and SOCAN Encore you can receive the royalties you’ve earned for your concerts, whether in-person or online.
Get Paid For Your Live Venue Concerts
Get Paid For Your Live Online Concerts
We’re all staying home safe right now. But remember those concerts you played last year? And the year before? And the year before that? And the . . . you get the picture. 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 and submit your setlist. Done! Consult the guide.
Can’t find your concert in Concerts with No Setlist. Submit your setlists from the past year 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.
It’s easy! A few clicks, then Get Set to Get Paid!
Playing online concerts?
Get paid with SOCAN Encore for your Facebook Live and Instagram Live performances. The SOCAN Encore program pays royalties to SOCAN songwriter, composer and publisher members for the use of their songs during live online performances.
This means that SOCAN members stand to benefit most when they perform original songs during their online performances since royalties are paid to the music creators, who often are not the performers.
**Note - Beginning December 1, 2020, the criteria has been modified to allow SOCAN members to more easily take advantage of the program. Based on your feedback, we came to realize that the proof requirement of a screen capture of 100 simultaneous LIVE audience members during the performance was difficult, particularly in the middle of a performance.
The new proof requirement is a minimum of 1,000 total views within 90 days of the performance, AND/OR 100 simultaneous LIVE audience viewers.
This new approach is far easier for Members to capture and should result in more payments being made.
Here’s how:
- Sign into your SOCAN account.
- Select SOCAN Forms
- Select Notification of Live Music Performance the same way you would for in-person concerts.
- Select Performance in Canada. Guide to filling out concert information
- Select Popular Music Concert
- Select Headline with no support if performing solo.
- Select Ticket Stub
- You must now provide two items to satisfy proof of performance Guide to providing Proof of Performance:
*place both items in one document as you are only able to upload one document in the system.
1) A screenshot of the event announcement.
2) A screenshot of your online performance showing PROOF of audience views, the original performance date, and your member name or social media handle. The performance must be submitted within 90 days of the original performance date and display at least 100 simultaneous LIVE audience viewers, AND/OR 1,000 total views.
- Venue name: Facebook Live or Instagram Live. Guide to filing out Venue and Company information
- Venue address: web address of concert use a link shortener eg. bitly if too long
- Venue address: enter your city, province and Canada as country
- Company details will auto-populate with previously entered information.
- Complete the company section with a fake phone number e.g. 111-111-1111
- Enter your setlist of 10 songs or 30 minutes of music.
- Confirm details and submit
Voila! You’ll receive your royalties in our next distribution.
**note that performances must occur between March 15, 2020 and March 7, 2021 and must be submitted within 90 days of the performance date.
Remember: we can't send you your earned concert royalties without a setlist.
Promoters and venues pay licenses so that rights holders can receive what they have earned.
Promoters and venues pay licenses so that rights holders can receive what they have earned.
The royalties that you rightfully earned are waiting for you.
Not a SOCAN member? Join today to start getting paid for your music.