Cory Broersma's Blog

If you have been following this blog, you will know that I am looking for creative ways to finance my worship albums (along with many other indie worship musicians) so that I can give the quality music away for free. The other day I found a cool site called www.live365.com .It’s a huge internet radio website with every kind of style of music one can imagine. I found a great Jamaican station, and while I was enjoying the music I got an idea. What if an independent musician put together a few of his or hers best songs and started to send D.J.s music and even better, become friends with stations programmers who have the same vision. I looked into the royalty system and realized if one is a member of ASCAP or for me who is Canadian - SOCAN, that every time the music is played the songwriter receives royalties. If you read the previous days blog, you will no I have trouble with the idea of receiving royalties from CCLI (which is a common way for indie worship musicians to get a bit of money), I don’t blame anyone for using this system, just I am still not sure what I think of it because they are basically charging a non-profit organization (the church) for pretty mundane services. Radio is generally for profit though, and can really be a win win situation. You can still give away your music for free, but royalties on radio play can help pay for the costs of producing your free music. So its an idea, if anyone has any comments or thoughts on this, feel free to add them.

Cheers,

Cory Broersma

www.freeworshipsongs.org