Thanks SAMRO! · 16 February 07
This morning I received my quarterly songwriter royalty statement, for Apr 01 to Jun 30, from the good (if not slightly confused) people at SOCAN. It is always a pleasant surprise to have money magically appear in your bank account and being that it is a quarterly payment, I always forget it is coming.
The thing that makes this quarterly statement noteworthy is that it shows that I was paid $40.54 from SAMRO. SAMRO is the Southern African Music Rights Organization. How cool is that?
I also made $1.44 from EAU (Estonia). $0.45 from IMRO (Ireland), $0.13 KODA (Denmark), $1.63 from PRS (England) and $0.15 from SCD (Chile).
As an Edmonton songwriter I am pretty darn happy when people just show up to my gigs and don’t leave before I have sung my last note. But actually getting paid for my music being played in other countries makes me feel good all the way to… well, all the way to EB Games where I will likely pick up another game for my Wii and waste another weekend in front of the tv instead of writing more songs. Sigh…
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