Random music news for Friday, October 21, 2022
Imagine trying to park The World’s Biggest SUV. It’s much easer to just read music news for October 21, 2022.
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SOCAN
And the winner of the 2022 SOCAN Songwriter Award is…
It’s Emily Steinwall. For 17 years, SOCAN, Canada’s performance rights organization, has honoured songwriters with cash and prizes. Emily, a
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Here are the finalists for the 2022 SOCAN Songwriting Prize
Every year, SOCAN, Canada’s performing rights collective, holds a competition for emerging Canadian songwriters. Here are the English-language finalists for
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The average Canadian songwriter made $67.14 from streaming music services last year: Report
SOCAN, the organization responsible for collecting and distributing royalties for artists from live performances, radio airplay, TV use, and digital
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The Online Streaming Act has been introduced in Canada. Welcome to Bill C-11.
The Online Streaming Bill, otherwise known as Bill C-11 (the successor to Bill C-10, which died because of last year’s
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SOCAN offering travel assistance to help musicians get back on the road
This could be music to many people’s ears: The SOCAN Foundation is once again accepting applications for its Travel Assistance
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Here are the finalists for the 2021 SOCAN Songwriting Prize
SOCAN, the Canadian performance rights collective, is once again seeking to recognize great songwriting in this country. The 16th annual
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SOCAN Guardians to be recognized this week
The virtual (sigh) SOCAN Awards are on deck for this week, just as the summer gets going, and among those
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This Canadian artist made $10,000 in three months through livestreaming
SOCAN is the organization that collects fees on behalf of its member artists for performances, both live and recorded. Ted
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First five winners of SiriusXM Black Canadian Music Awards announced
TOBi, Naya Ali, RAAHiiM, Hunnah and Dylan Sinclair have been named the first winners of the new SiriusXM Black Canadian
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Random music news for Friday, September 25, 2020
I gotta stop buying the stuff advertised in Instagram. My record is Pieces of Crap 5, Actually Useful Stuff 1.
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