SOCAN In The News

Sound Royalties expands into Canada, with Vanessa Thomas named head of operations for the market

Sound Royalties was acquired by Cinq Music Group parent GoDigital Media Group (GDMG) last year

CISAC: ‘Each individual society should decide on whether to maintain their business relationships with Russian societies.’

CISAC clarifies position on RAO

UK collection society PRS cuts ties with Russian counterpart. But why is it having to act alone?

PRS for Music has formally suspended its rights representation relationship with Russia's RAO

From Spotify’s $1bn share buyback to Downtown’s big change: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest music biz headlines of the week - and why they matter

SESAC acquires royalty collection platform Audiam from SOCAN

Move brings Audiam and Harry Fox Agency under one roof in the US

Canadian music fund aiming to spend $200m launches, led by Michael McCarty

Fund is specifically looking to buy music rights created in Canada

Audible Magic acquires rights administration business MediaNet from SOCAN

SOCAN and Audible Magic also enter into strategic partnership

SOCAN revenues grew 8.2% in 2019 – but payments to songwriters and publishers shrunk by 6%

Distributions to members in 2019 totalled CAD $296m, compared with CAD $315m distributed in 2018