Get paid for your sets — royalty reporting

If you play other people's music in public, the venue already pays licence fees to a collecting society. The composers of the tracks you played only receive their share if someone reports what was actually played, and as the DJ, that someone is you. Almost nobody does it, because reconstructing a tracklist after a gig is painful. You just solved that part: your ryser.id analysis is the setlist.

What you need

• An identified set on ryser.id (fix any unknowns first; corrections count)
• The date and venue of the performance
• An account at your local collecting society (composers/producers benefit most; in some countries performing DJs can also claim)

Export the report

Open your run, hit Export → Royalty report (.csv). You get a clean spreadsheet with order, title, artist and duration per track: exactly the fields societies ask for. Add the performance date in the date column, or fill it in the portal.

Where to submit

Netherlands — Buma/Stemra: submit via MijnBumaStemra under Live. You can enter works manually (with Spotify-powered search) or upload your sheet. Not a member? There's a "Submit setlists as a non-member" button too; the composers you played still get paid. Step-by-step walkthrough: reporting to Buma/Stemra.

United Kingdom — PRS for Music: use the Live Reporting Tool in your online account. No file upload, but you can copy from your CSV and re-use a submitted setlist for recurring gigs. Walkthrough: reporting to PRS.

Elsewhere: GEMA (Germany), SABAM (Belgium) and SACEM (France) run similar live-reporting flows; the same CSV gives you everything they ask for. All societies at a glance: royalty reporting hub.

Why bother

If you produce your own music and play it out, reporting your own sets is direct income: your performance generates a payout from fees the venue already paid. Playing only other people's tracks? Reporting still matters: it routes the money to the right artists instead of a statistical pool, and scene karma is real.