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Five SOCAN members win Second-Place Prizes in 2020 Unsigned Only song competition

Genre category winners are Big Little Lions, Buck Twenty, an...

Patrick Curley to receive 2020 Christopher J. Reed Award

SOCAN-sponsored award ceremony Sept. 24 during Pop Montreal ...

SOCAN, JUNOs partner with CIMA for Episode Seven of “Breaking Down Racial Barriers”

Examining Black representation in record labels, streaming c...

Songs by Men Without Hats, Rankin Family, Rough Trade inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

“Safety Dance,” “Pop Goes the World,” “Fare Thee W...

Apply now for SOCAN Foundation TD Indigenous Songwriter Award

The winner will receive $10,000

Apply now for Inaugural Program of the Black Canadian Music Awards

Created in partnership with SOCAN Foundation, SiriusXM CANAD...

SOCAN provides transparent, updated revenue forecast to its members

Total Canadian revenues in 2020 likely to decrease by 11% fr...

SOCAN holds online town hall meeting with Screen Composers Guild of Canada

Sixth annual gathering discusses royalties in COVID-19 era

The 2020 edition of Les Francouvertes returns

SOCAN-sponsored “J’aime mes ex” series is now online

SOCAN Leadership Updates: Trevor Jackson

Future tech, and SOCAN I.T. as a workplace

Video Interview: Staying Home with Owen Pallett

We chat with celebrated songwriter, composer about his Islan...

SOCAN, IASCA co-create six one-day song camps throughout Summer of 2020

Partnering teams of Irish and Canadian music creators, onlin...

SOCAN’s Encore program distributes more than $130,000 for virtual performances

On more than 935 online live concerts presented during COVID...

SOCAN Leadership Updates: Trevor Jackson

How has SOCAN’s I.T. Department coped with COVID?

SOCAN Reproduction Rights clients awarded $1.5-million in royalties

For copies of music, in CBC arbitration

Video Interview: Staying Home with T. Thomason and Ria Mae

How they co-write the re-mix of Thomason’s “Loser”

Prix de la chanson SOCAN: Félix Dyotte accepts his $5,000 prize

He performs “Maintenant ou jamais” with Évelyne Brochu ...

SOCAN mourns the loss of member Salome Bey, “Canada’s First Lady of the Blues,” at 86

Grammy nominee, Dora Mavor Moore and Obie Award winner, Memb...

SOCAN House in Paris re-opens for business

Under new COVID-19 terms and conditions

Three TV theme songs co-written by Alan Thicke to be inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Facts of Life, Diff’rent Strokes, Wheel of Fortune

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