After you submit your Music Review, we will review your submission and update your account. An invoice is then raised for your next licence year. If your actual music use differs from the estimate you provided, an adjustment will be made to the back year.

If you ended up hosting more days of Live Music, DJs and/or Karaoke than you estimated at the beginning of the licence period, you will be charged for the additional days for the back year, as well as fees the forward year.

If you ended up hosting less days of Live Music, DJs and/or Karaoke than you estimated at the beginning of the licence period, a credit is applied to your account, which goes towards your fees for the forward year.

Prior to your anniversary each year, we will email your Music Review – a simple online form that includes a few questions about your music use.

To help keep track of your music use through the year, click here to download our Music Review template.

You will need to let us know:

1. Your actual number of days you had Live Music, DJs and/or Karaoke for the past 12 months.
2. Your estimated number of days for Live Music, DJs and/or Karaoke for the next 12 months.

Including events and music performances with no ticket price, or an advertised ticket price, or entry fee under $35.

Live Music, DJs and/or Karaoke is based on a per day fee. It’s important to submit your Music Review annually to keep your account up to date and ensure the licences fees you pay are accurate and reflect the music you use.

To help keep track of your music use through the year, click here to download our Music Review template.

For all performances with an advertised ticket price or entry fee of $35 or more, event licences are required for each event.

For performances that are live only (for example a live band) an APRA event licence is required. For events that include both live music and recorded music (for example bands and DJs), a licence is required from both APRA for the rights to perform musical works, and Recorded Music NZ for the rights to perform sound recordings. 

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No. If you have a live band and DJs and/or Karaoke on the same day, you only pay one per day rate.

A DJ is a performer providing a real time programme of music additional to a venue’s regular background music service. A DJ provides recorded music entertainment using equipment such as turntables, CD players, digital music devices. This definition applies whether music is played by an externally sourced DJ or a staff member.

It is the pub, club, bar, restaurant, or business authorising the public performance that is responsible for holding the OneMusic licence. While you may hire bands or DJs and pay them a fee to play, what you’ve agreed with the performer doesn’t cover the public performance permission your venue needs.

Yes. The public performance of the live music is what the OneMusic licence covers you for. 

Not all of the members of a band performing at your venue will have necessarily written the songs they perform. For example, the band might have six members, but only two of these band members wrote the music. Alternatively, the music may have been co-written by another person who is not a member of the band at all. Even if the performers wrote the song – it's the public performance of the music you need a licence for.

When you hear about music royalties, that’s what we do. Live performances are directly distributed to music creators using performance data provided to us by musicians who have performed at venues. 

Yes. Open mic performers would either be represented by OneMusic (through APRA AMCOS or Recorded Music NZ), or cover songs. For this reason, open mic nights and jam nights need to be included on your Music Review.

OneMusic is a joint licensing initiative between APRA AMCOS and Recorded Music NZ. APRA AMCOS members submit live performance returns, letting us know where they played and what songs they performed. This information is used to distribute the licence fees that venues pay for live performances.

Yes. You do need to include Live Music, DJs and/or Karaoke whether performers are paid or not, the public performance of the music is what the OneMusic licence covers you for and should be included on your Music Review.

OneMusic licences are non-transferrable so you’ll need to let us know in writing. If you have sold your business, or if you have ceased trading complete a OneMusic Licence Cancellation Request form. We can then issue your last Music Review to finalise your account.