TONO settles 54,1 million

This week, TONO will pay out NOK 54,1 million to licensees at home and abroad. NOK 14,7 million will also be paid out to TONO members from NCB.

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TONO settles performance fees to composers, lyricists and music publishers in Norway and abroad four times a year. In the last ordinary quarterly settlement of the year, a total of kr 54,1 millions.

Of this goes kr 27,3 million to members of TONO, kr 25,2 million goes to rights holders abroad, and kr 1,6 million is reserved for unidentified rights holders and musical works, unannounced musical works, non-members and disputed rights.

The areas being settled for this time are performances on Norwegian radio and television in the second quarter of 2016, premiere performances in 2015, performances abroad, Netflix for the third quarter of 2015, VGTV for 2015 and various subsequent settlements, direct settlements and adjustments.

In addition to the settlement from TONO, it is also settled  kr 14,7 million to TONO's members via NCBThis concerns iTunes for the first quarter of 2016, Spotify for April and June 2016, Google Play for the first quarter of 2016, Beat.no for the fourth quarter of 2015 and physical sales of CDs, DVDs etc. and audiovisual synchronization.

TONO members can view their balance and all transactions on their member account at any time. My TONOThere you can also search for billing data for individual works across periods and categories with details about the individual performances.

Questions can be directed to member service by phone at 22 05 72 80 or medlem@tono.noAny complaints must be in writing and sent to TONO by February 1, 2017.

Media inquiries:
Willy Martinsen, communications manager at TONO, mobile 909 65,254, email: WILLY.MARTINSEN@TONO.NO

About TONO:
TONO is a non-profit cooperative, founded in 1928, owned and managed by its members: composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers. TONO manages performance rights for musical works in Norway and collects remuneration for their public performance. TONO currently represents more than 28,000 Norwegian composers, lyricists and music publishers. Through mutual representation agreements with similar companies in other countries, TONO practically manages the world repertoire in Norway. As a non-profit enterprise, TONO's results are passed on to the rights holders. TONO thus facilitates the use of music in society, while at the same time providing composers and lyricists with a basis for constantly creating new musical works.