If TONO is to be able to pay money to those who have written the music used in film and TV productions, the producers must inform about the type of music used.
TONO is also supporting Spellemann this year. You can see the list of all the nominees here.
As 2016 draws to a close, we can once again see that TONO has continued to grow its membership. We are gaining around 1500 new members a year, and now have a total of almost 30,000 members. We naturally find that very pleasing.
26 million streams after the single "Backbeat" was released a little over a year ago, Dagny concludes that the streaming code is cracked with good songs and a little luck.
On December 7, NCB's management presented a proposal for a future model for the management of mechanical rights in the Nordic region to the NCB board. The proposal would mean that NCB's administrative activities related to licensing, collection and distribution of music rights would continue uninterrupted, but in a new organizational form.
Fay Wildhagen is the winner of the 2016 EDVARD Prize in the Challenger category for "Into the woods".
A psychopath organ from 1983 with a semi-automatic drum machine, an acoustic guitar from a church in the Midwest, and a very nice feedback are among the goodies in this video report with Morudes.
Matprat measures the Christmas mood among Norwegians, and has investigated how many Norwegians will go to a Christmas concert this year. TONO helps put it all into context. You can see the press release here.
Geir Johnson received TONO's Mediator Award 2016 on 12/12-16 during a Christmas concert with "Music for a while" at the Parkteateret.
Maren Selvaag is Norway's first woman to hold a master's degree in jazz piano from the Norwegian Academy of Music. She has now released her debut album, recorded at Avatar Studios in New York.