Millions in unclaimed royalties — your money is going to someone else.
When you don’t submit your setlist, the money doesn’t disappear. It gets redistributed to artists who did.
SOCAN distributed in 2024
$512M
And that’s just one PRO — in one country
SOCAN distributed a record $512.4 million in 2024. ASCAP and BMI each distribute over $1 billion annually in the US alone. A significant portion — the live performance slice — depends entirely on artists submitting setlists. When they don’t, the money goes to artists who did.
Why does this happen?
You don’t remember the setlist
A 12-song set played at 11pm after a long day is hard to reconstruct accurately the next morning.
The submission window feels distant
SOCAN gives you about a year. ASCAP and BMI close on quarterly cutoffs. The deadline feels far away — until it isn’t.
The portal UX is genuinely painful
PRO portals were not designed for mobile-first touring musicians. Clunky, desktop-centric, and slow.
The amounts feel too small to bother
A single bar show might yield $30–75 in royalties. Across 100 shows a year, that’s $3,000–7,500 unclaimed.
How much are you leaving behind?
What you can do right now
The fix is straightforward: submit your setlists. But the harder problem is having accurate setlist data in the first place.
Join a PRO if you haven’t — SOCAN, ASCAP, BMI, PRS, or APRA
Register your songs in their catalog
Submit setlists for past shows — most PROs give you 6–12 months retroactively
Check your PRO’s “Unidentified Concerts” list — your show may already be logged
Build a habit of capturing setlists immediately after every show
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