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.

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.

Elsewhere: GEMA (Germany), SABAM (Belgium) and SACEM (France) run similar live-reporting flows — the same CSV gives you everything they ask for.

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.