Advocacy

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SOCAN fights for the legal, fair and ethical use of our members' music, and advocates for all of our members, whether songwriters, lyricists, concert music composers, film scorers, music publishers, or other types of music creators. SOCAN lobbies the federal government to ensure the most favourable possible conditions for our members, and especially to advocate for fair compensation for the use of their work. Similarly, SOCAN appears before the Copyright Board of Canada to pursue new tariffs for new uses of our members' music; to pursue better rates for our members on existing tariffs; to represent the rights of our members in hearings; or to oppose representations by those music user groups or organizations that we believe are not fairly compensating our members.

Drake

Having expanded the lyrical range of rap into sensitive emotional territory, and then sonically into Caribbean and global flavours, SOCAN member, multiple Grammy winner and unofficial Toronto ambassador Drake has become one of the most commercially successful contemporary male pop stars in the world. With his album More Life, Drake earned a record 89.9 million streams on Apple Music and 61.3 million plays on Spotify in its first 24 hours. More Life was Drake's seventh consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, and earned 505,000 equivalent album sales in its first week. It allowed him to chart 24 songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100.