SoundExchange Reporting Blog

Attention NFCB members: I’ll be attending your fine annual conference in Houston next month to talk about the future of SoundExchange reporting through NPR Digital Services. Some important changes to the process will be coming later this year and I’ll leading a panel discussion about them on Friday June 15 at the very early hour of 8:00am.

So, if you’re going, don’t stay out too late on Thursday night drinking Texas beer or eating BBQ or roping cattle or whatever. We want you there bright eyed and bushy tailed!

For you non-NFCB members, or those not attending, we’ll be sharing these changes with you as well, via the usual channels (email, blog post, social, smoke signals, etc.) in June, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

The deadline for submitting your next round of SoundExchange data to NPR Digital Services - for Q2, April 1 through June 30 - has been set: Friday July 6, 2012!

Exciting, right?

Of course, the fact that we’re now accepting data for Q2 means that we finished and submitted the Q1 2012 reports to SoundExchange – which we did last week. It was another great showing by you fine folks. Here are the raw numbers:

• Licensees reporting: 319
• Content channels covered: 517
• Total Aggregate Tuning Hours (ATH)* devoted to music streaming reported: 17.3 million (13.9 million when adjusted to a monthly average)
• Total sound recordings reported: 868k (and then some)
• Total performances reported**: 223 million (give or take)

* One ATH = One hour of content streamed to one listener

** One performance = The streaming of one recording to one listener

That right there is some serious amount of reporting data.

Thanks, as always, to everyone who made a serious effort to meet their reporting obligations. Remember, you’re not doing it for our benefit; you’re doing it because it’s your legal responsibility. If you stream music, you must report or risk being in violation of federal copyright laws.

But you already knew that – right? Of course you did.

Anyway, keep up the good work and get that Q2 data to us ASAP.