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Understanding the digital music economy starts with knowing how royalties work, where they come from, and how to collect...
09/18/2025

Understanding the digital music economy starts with knowing how royalties work, where they come from, and how to collect them.

From streaming to podcasts to video games, your songs can generate royalties across many platforms. To get paid, make sure your works are registered, and your metadata is accurate.

Know your rights, unlock your earnings.

SOCAN, IPRS, and the SOCAN Foundation joined forces for KOLAB 2025 — a week-long songwriting camp designed to foster col...
09/17/2025

SOCAN, IPRS, and the SOCAN Foundation joined forces for KOLAB 2025 — a week-long songwriting camp designed to foster collaboration across cultures. 🤝

The result? 56 original songs, written in multiple languages and styles, blending Indian and Canadian perspectives.

Through creative exchange and shared goals, the camp highlighted what’s possible when music creators come together with intention.

👉 https://www.socanmagazine.ca/news/iprs-socan-foster-indo-canadian-collaboration-at-2025-kolab-songwriting-camp/

In 2017, Gala Dynastie is launched in Montréal, as a finale to the festivities of Black History Month, and aiming to rew...
09/17/2025

In 2017, Gala Dynastie is launched in Montréal, as a finale to the festivities of Black History Month, and aiming to reward and recognize personalities from Black communities in Québec whose achievements and accomplishments have distinguished themselves in the fields of music, arts, and culture.

✨ Song of the Week ✨Frank Mighty - “Been Done”Frank Mighty's sound has been described as “somewhere between Passion Pit ...
09/11/2025

✨ Song of the Week ✨

Frank Mighty - “Been Done”

Frank Mighty's sound has been described as “somewhere between Passion Pit and MGMT,” and has also drawn comparisons to Glass Animals and Bon Iver. Mighty's song “Unattainable (Keep Me Close)” has been streamed more than 265,000 times on Spotify, and another one, “Rakefire”" has earned more than 165,000 streams on the platform. Mighty also participated in the 2024 edition of the SOCAN Foundation TD Incubator for Creative Entrepreneurship. “Been Done” is his latest, and perhaps catchiest, single – the first in a series coming in the Fall of 2025.

👉 https://www.socanmagazine.ca/socan-song-of-the-week/

Toronto rapper Michie Mee signs a contract with First Priority/Atlantic Records in 1988, making her the first Canadian r...
09/10/2025

Toronto rapper Michie Mee signs a contract with First Priority/Atlantic Records in 1988, making her the first Canadian rapper to achieve the feat with an American label. This was a year after "Elements of Style" was produced by early New York rap heavyweights KRS-One and Scott La Rock. KRS called her “Canada’s greatest musically inclined intellectual representative for the rap industry on a whole, a major breakthrough for female MCs everywhere.”

The 35th SOCAN Awards are just around the corner! ✨ On September 29, SOCAN will mark 100 years of supporting and celebra...
09/08/2025

The 35th SOCAN Awards are just around the corner! ✨

On September 29, SOCAN will mark 100 years of supporting and celebrating Canadian music. Honouring the songwriters, composers, and music publishers whose work continues to shape culture, both at home and around the world.

This year’s honourees include legendary trailblazers like Joni Mitchell, global chart-toppers Drake, Boi-1da, Ozan 'OZ' Yildirim, Lowell, Nathan Ferraro, bülow, Evan Blair and more. Each a reflection of the depth and influence of Canada’s music creators.

The full list of 2025 SOCAN Award winners will be revealed the evening of the show.

For more information 👉 https://www.socanmagazine.ca/news/joni-mitchell-boi-1da-drake-more-to-be-honoured-as-we-celebrate-100-years-at-35th-socan-awards/

09/04/2025

Nathan Ferraro reflects on his shift from artist to full-time songwriter; letting go of the stage and finding fulfillment behind the scenes as a songwriter.

Inspired by legends like Carole King, Max Martin, and Diane Warren, he believes that being a songwriter today doesn’t mean giving up on being an artist forever.

Watch the full video on YouTube: http://youtube.com/socanmusic

Despite initially being filed by SOCAN in 1995 -- the early days of the internet -- Tariff 22A, for Online Music Service...
09/03/2025

Despite initially being filed by SOCAN in 1995 -- the early days of the internet -- Tariff 22A, for Online Music Services, and Tariff 22B-G, for Other Uses of Music on the Internet, are finally approved by the Copyright Board of Canada in 2007 and 2008, respectively. This follows a period of significant uncertainty about online music use, and is a significant milestone for SOCAN’s advocacy on behalf of its members.

✨Song of the Week✨Critique Love - “Fading Star”With his Critique Love project, film composer Antoine Binette Mercier con...
09/02/2025

✨Song of the Week✨

Critique Love - “Fading Star”

With his Critique Love project, film composer Antoine Binette Mercier continues to weave a unique, cinematic, and intense soundscape. His latest release, “Fading Star,” marks a new stage in this musical journey, which will culminate in a debut album this fall on Simone Records. In collaboration with Frannie Holder (Random Recipe, Dear Criminals), who wrote the luminously melancholic lyrics and performs them, the piece creates an atmosphere that is both contemplative and unsettling.

Between striking percussive moments and more intimate passages, “Fading Star” oscillates between cosmic solitude and fragile clarity, carried by rich instrumentation (Robbie Kuster, François Plante, Simon Angell, Mélanie Bélair, Claude Lamothe). A solemn and haunting track that perfectly illustrates Critique Love’s approach: transforming anxiety into light.

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The SOCAN page is intended to provide a forum for members, businesses licensed to play music, and others to communicate with each other, share music advice, opinions, experience, and more. SOCAN strongly encourages users of this page to respect fellow fans, community members and the Facebook Terms and Conditions, including the User Content guidelines. SOCAN reserves the right to monitor and remove any content at any time for any reason at SOCAN’s sole discretion. Comments, discussion posts, wall posts and any other user posted content that is deemed inappropriate by SOCAN will be removed from the page. If in SOCAN’s judgment an individual continually posts inappropriate material, SOCAN may exercise its right to block that individual from posting content on the Page. En Français - www.facebook.com/SOCANmusique