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First five winners of SiriusXM Black Canadian Music Awards announced

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Amber Healy 1 Comment Dylan Sinclair, Hunnah, Naya Ali, RAAHiiM, SiriusXM Black Canadian Music Awards, siriusXM Canada, SOCAN, SOCAN Foundation, TOBi

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

September 25, 2020September 24, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bose, CAB, CRTC, Deftones, Ed Sheeran, Fall Out Boy, John Lennon, Live Music, Nirvana, Record Store Day, Rick Rubin, Ronnie Wood, Shawn Mendes, SOCAN, SXSWW, Tesla, Tidal, Tom Petty, Van Morrison

I gotta stop buying the stuff advertised in Instagram. My record is Pieces of Crap 5, Actually Useful Stuff 1.

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SOCAN launches Black Canadain Music Awards

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Canadian Music Awards, SOCAN

SOCAN, Canada’s performing rights organization, has announced the creation of the Black Canadian Music Awards. The goal is to recognize

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William Prince wins the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments SOCAN, SOCAN Songwriting Prize, William Prince

SOCAN, Canada’s performing rights association, sponsors a songwriting contest each year. The winner for 2020 is Winnipeg’s William Prince (actually,

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Music Industry 

SOCAN announced $2 million fund to help struggling Canadian musicians

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19, SOCAN

SOCAN, Canada’s performing rights organization, is following in the footsteps of a few other similar organizations in other parts of

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There’s a new Canadian program designed to encourage woman to become music producers

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Producers, SOCAN

If you were asked to list some famous female record producers, how many could you name? Let’s see, there’s Sylvia

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Music Industry 

Canadian small businesses aren’t paying to play music at work

October 8, 2019October 7, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Performing Rights, SOCAN

If you run a business, a restaurant, an office or domain over public space where where employees, customers, and clients

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Music Industry 

How difficult will it be to get copyrighted commercial music into podcasts. Hard. Very, very hard.

October 1, 2019September 30, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Podcasts, SOCAN

[I was asked to write something on the subject for SOCAN. – AC] Since its debut on January 25, 2017,

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Time to vote for this year’s SOCAN Songwriting Prize!

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 Amber Healy 0 Comments Anemone, Bad Child, Clairmont the Second, Dilly Dally, Grandson, Just John + Dom Dias, Kaytranada, MorMor, Scott Helman, Shay Lia, So Loki, SOCAN, SOCAN Songwriting Prize

The 10 finalists for this year’s SOCAN Songwriting Prize reflect the best of Canadian music: A variety of genres, artists

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New copyright report wants to bring CanCon regs to streaming

May 27, 2019May 26, 2019 Amber Healy 0 Comments Cancon, Hulu, Music Canada, Netflix, Parliament, Royalties, SOCAN, Spotify, Streaming, Streaming Music Services, Streaming Royalties

It’s a bit of an oversimplification, but new copyright policy in Canada wants to make sure streaming platforms are adequately

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RE:SOUND, SOCAN now working Entandem

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019 Amber Healy 0 Comments Entandem, Licensing, performance rights, Re:Sound, SOCAN

Promising to make music licensing easier and more streamlined, RE:SOUND and SOCAN have joined forces to create a single entity,

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