There are more online services than ever before offering music in Canada today! Apple Music launched in June 2015 and Spotify just marked the first anniversary of their entry into Canada back in the fall of 2014. Additionally there has been a steady stream of new services entering the Canadian digital music market, and CMRRA […]

Many of our publisher clients already know Michael Mackie who is the Manager of Repertoire. Michael began his employment with CMRRA in the Royalties department in 1997. Before joining CMRRA, he studied English and Mass Communications, graduating from York University. After gaining experience in the Royalties department, Michael moved on to the position of Licensing […]

We are very excited to announce that CMRRA has developed a new royalty statement format which will provide greater flexibility to all of our clients, while at the same time supporting more extensive data across all areas of royalty distribution. This new statement format will provide a standard that supports all types of distributions, and […]

Please note that the CMRRA office will be closed from the afternoon of Dec 24, 2015 to the morning of January 4, 2016. We wish all our clients, licensees, colleagues and friends a very happy holidays season.

Earlier this year, CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (CSI) launched a new Claims Website for unpaid royalties associated with Post-2012 major label releases. Rights holders can now make claims on musical works for which royalties have been disbursed into a newly established trust account managed by CSI (“Licensing Trust”) and created pursuant to the 2010 settlement of the […]

CMRRA would like to give you an update on our licensing activities on behalf of our music publisher clients. As you already know, we license a wide variety of reproduction activity, including traditional mechanical reproduction, digital distribution and subscriptions, radio broadcasting (both satellite and terrestrial), and background music supply. We license music users via a […]

Most of our music publisher clients already know Sandra Nettleton, CMRRA’s Director of Licensing and Royalties. Born in Mozambique, Sandra started part-time employment with CMRRA in July 1990 while still in high school. She continued with her education while working at CMRRA and studied Business Administration at both York and Ryerson Universities. Throughout her years […]

The new CMRRA Direct is here! CMRRA Direct is a portal for our music publisher clients to provide direct and secure access to their work along with licence and royalty information in our new License and Royalty Distribution System (LDS). This client interface has been re-launched with new and enhanced features. We encourage all of […]

CMRRA held its Annual General Meeting on September 24 and Gary Furniss, President of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada, was re-elected to the CMRRA Board of Directors and reappointed as Chairman of the Organization. We caught up with Gary to chat about the Sony/ATV roster, the current environment for publishers and songwriters in Canada, and his […]

The new CMRRA Direct is here! CMRRA is thrilled to announce the launch a new CMRRA Direct portal for our music publisher clients to provide direct, secure access to their work, licence and royalty information in our new License and Royalty Distribution System (LDS)! This client interface is being re-launched with new and enhanced features […]