How Do Musicians Get Paid When The Music Is Played On Pandora or Sirius Radio

Musicians MUST REGISTER with SoundExchange in order to get paid royalties from digital performances. Digital performances include having songs played on Pandora or Sirius Radio. I know that you might think that being registered with ASCAP, BMI or SESAC covers this, but it doesn’t. Separate registration with SoundExchange is required to collect royalties when your music is played on digital and satellite music providers.

SoundExchange pays royalties to performers and copyright owners. If you own your own track and play on it, then you get paid twice.

The only catch is that Musicians, performers and copyright owners must be proactive in registering with SoundExchange to collect their money.

–>Register with SoundExchange –> http://www.soundexchange.com/

p.s. if you haven’t already submitted your music to Pandora or Sirius Radio here is the contact info for that too. http://www.pandora.com/corporate/contact.shtml & http://www.sirius.com/contactus

-Vanessa Kaster

Source: http://blog.artistshousemusic.org/post/1544479375/how-do-musicians-get-paid-when-the-music-is-played-on

Pandora + Facebook: The Potent Mix of Friend & Song...

Remember when people used to sit around and listen to music together? Of course, those moments still exist, but the digital music experience is often a private pleasure.

So how to reconnect? Pandora is addressing that question by integrating itself into Facebook, a huge move towards networked listening. At a top level, the integration allows friends to quickly share stations with their Facebook friends, part of a much broader "Open Graph" build-out for Facebook. Pandora is a major component of that expansion, and was discussed prominently by Mark Zuckerberg during a keynote at the F8 Developer Conference on Wednesday.

The idea is delightfully simple and connected. Pandora users can easily link their Facebook profiles and friends into their stations, or, opt-out to remain private. But why not hold hands on this new discovery commune? "I've been testing out the service while we were developing it and I have to say it really brings a wonderful new human dimension to the listening experience," Pandora founder Tim Westergren relayed.

Source: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/042110facebook