OneMusic Australia licence fees go to music creators, minus a small admin cost. A team looks at millions of lines of data that come from radio air play, box office reports, songs played on streaming services and TV, song lists from concerts and many more. They match the funds as best they can to the people who own the song.
OneMusic distributes the licence fees it collects to APRA AMCOS and PPCA - the bodies behind the licensing initiative. After the deduction of administration and operational costs, all licence fees collected by OneMusic are distributed by APRA and AMCOS to their members and international affiliates, and by PPCA to its licensors.
Both APRA AMCOS and PPCA maintain their own distribution practices and policies, which are available online:
An important part of APRA’s and AMCOS’ Distribution Practices for OneMusic licence fees is the use of Music Recognition Technology (MRT). By using MRT, APRA AMCOS can help the creators of the music that is actually played get their royalties.
The Audoo Audio Meter is a small plug-in MRT device that recognises music played in the areas in which they are placed – for instance, a small bar or a retail space. The device fingerprints songs and sends that data to APRA AMCOS. There are a growing number of Audoo Audio Meters in businesses throughout Australia. To learn about how Audoo MRT works, and how to get one installed in your business, read more.
The following represent the main sources of music data the two organisations use to make their distributions (payments) to music creators.
Audoo audio meters better identify the songs being played in public at a micro level – all day and all night – with macro effect.
Over 400 music rights management organisations in the world are watching industry-leading Australian- and New Zealand-based APRA AMCOS and OneMusic.
A technician will come to your business and install the audio meter into a power outlet. The audio meter device will recognise what music is playing after just 10 seconds and will securely fingerprint it, with no audio ever being stored on (or sent from) the device. Audoo has a database of over 60 million tracks.
The songs being played are relayed back to Audoo as data (not audio) and each month will be reported to APRA AMCOS (one of the partners behind OneMusic) to ingest the data into their systems.
Catherine Giuliano, Director of OneMusic Australia encourages businesses to put their hand up for the meter to be installed in their space, she says
“for all the times you have wondered if your fees are going to the makers of the exact songs you play in your business, this is the chance to drive that change”.
Music-tech start-up Audoo has financial backers that include ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus. Audoo's CEO and founder, Ryan Edwards(himself a musician) is on a mission to revolutionise public performance royalties.
Audoo is backed by high-profile investors and is supported by an advisory board of industry stakeholders. Four-year-old Audoo has raised a total of nearly AUD$26.8 million in private funding.
The audio meter “is packed with some of the world’s most sophisticated signal processing capabilities, which enable accurate track IDs even in noisy environments”, as reported in PROs Are Quietly Reinventing Themselves — By Potentially Counting Every Single Song Played (Digital Music News)
OneMusic Australia is a joint initiative between music rights organisations APRA AMCOS and PPCA in Australia.
OneMusic collects public performance licence fees (royalties), these royalties are then distributed by APRA AMCOS and PPCA.
These two companies have their own ways of distributing their share of royalties to their members and licensors.
The Audoo rollout means APRA AMCOS will adjust how it splits its share of royalties, essentially a change in the algorithm based on data from real-time businesses in the Australian marketplace.
Licensing fees for the use of songs in public are different in every country and different by industry. If you purchase a blanket licence from a music rights organisation to use their catalogue of music your fee would be different to the brand that wants to use one single song in a television advertisement.
OneMusic is a genuine music licensing organisation that has issued hundreds of thousands of ‘public performance’ music licences to businesses, individuals and organisations throughout Australia since 2019.
You can easily confirm OneMusic’s legitimacy by checking with various official websites, such as The Australian Business Licence and Information Service and the Australian Copyright Council.
