Soundreef continues to support independent artists in the ways that really make a difference: we get their music heard, and we make sure they’re paid when their music is played. We’re delighted to announce that we’ve just paid our artists their royalties for the second semester of 2013 – and it was another big pay

Tim Trudeau is CEO of Syntax Creative. He has experience in all areas of the music industry – he started out as an artist, and soon progressed to artist management, promoting other musicians and brand building. In the late ‘90s, a revolutionary distribution deal he made meant that his band Sackcloth Fashion could reach a national audience

Hannah Boothby, Soundreef Tim Trudeau is CEO of Syntax Creative. He has experience in all areas of the music industry – he started out as an artist, and soon progressed to artist management, promoting other musicians and brand building. In the late ‘90s, a revolutionary distribution deal he made meant that his band Sackcloth Fashion could reach

Hannah Boothby and Davide d’Atri, Soundreef Artists, record labels and publishers often ask us what happens when they’ve uploaded their music – when will it be used as music for business and what affects how much airtime it will get? We’ve put this blog post together to answer some of your questions about this. Why

So here it is, merry Christmas, everybody’s having fun rocking around the Christmas tree with mistletoe and wine. Joy!  Bored of hearing the same in-store music every Christmas? If you’ve always thought that every shop, restaurant, bar and café – and even the gym! – played the same tedious Christmas hits every year, you’d probably

The most frequent question I get from artists is “how do I contact the music services listed in your directory?” The answer is always the same. Whether you’re contacting a magazine, music blog, radio show, record label, music distributor or promotional service – you have to check THEIR SPECIFIC submission guidelines before getting in touch.

If you’re an artist, record label or publisher who produces good music, you’ll probably be popular in more than one country. But when your music is played in other countries, how do you collect your royalties? Your national collecting society has probably made arrangements to do this, but are these actually fair? What is a

Most artists are very careful to prevent their music from being downloaded for free – so how come they still aren’t paid when it is played? Artists, record labels and publishers usually ask collecting societies to arrange for their music to be licensed, and to collect royalties on it, but most have never actually been

When an artist writes a song, they automatically become a right holder and have a number of rights in relation to it. Since it’s expensive and impractical for artists, labels and publishers to manage these rights themselves, most ask a collecting society to administer them. For more about collecting societies, see our previous blog post. This

Soundreef is the most progressive and efficient music rights management company in Europe. We provide high quality background music for businesses and we gather and distribute the royalties for using it. In the past, European businesses who wanted to play background music had to pay various different copyright collection societies (depending on where they were