SoundExchange Reporting Blog

Thanks to the blood, sweat and tears (not to mention the cursing) of lots of people, NPR Digital Services was able to complete and submit the Q4 2011 SoundExchange reports last week.

For those interested in the gory details, the reports covered:

• 327 stations
• 522 content channels
• 19.4 million aggregate tuning hours devoted to music streaming
• 890,000(ish) recordings

Each (featured) performer on every one of those recordings is now eligible to collect royalty money (paid on behalf of your station by the CPB) from SoundExchange. See? We’re helping starving (and some not-so-starving) artists to get paid!

Now that the hangover from the Q4 reports has (just about) cleared, it’s time to face reality and get crackin’ on your reporting data for the Q1 2012 reports. Those data should come from with the period of January 1 through March 31 and must be submitted to to NPR Digital Services by Friday, April 6 2012.

Keep up the great work, everyone!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope y’all rang in 2012 with family, friends and fun times.

Now that the new year is here, I’m sure everyone is busy making up their list of New Year’s resolutions. If your list is anything like mine,  it looks something like this:

1. Stop eating frosting right from the can
2. Start exercising more (playing Battleship on the Wii doesn’t count)
3. Start making more money (legally)

Yes?

Might i suggest adding one more item to your list: get your quarterly SoundExchange data to us at NPR Digital Services in a timely fashion! To that end, this is your last reminder that, if you haven’t submitted them already, your Q4 2011 reporting data are due here by this Friday, January 6.

Thanks and have a great start to 2012!