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Just received the wonderful news our third CD submission to Pump Audio has been accepted and they are now processing our music.  This CD titled Songs2Share Mixtape #1 is a compilation of the works of 4 songwriters, including yours truly.  One of the songs is a cover recorded by an artist who chose 2 of our songs to cover on license for demo exchange.  It is our goal to get your music the largest audience & getting into Pump’s catalog is a good thing.  Congratulation Chip, Clare & Frank & all the artists who worked on the songs that are now being marketed by Pump Audio.  Congratulations to Olga who had her CD that S2S submitted for her, also accepted.  Here’s their e-mail for your perusal.

Congratulations, your music has been successfully reviewed for the Pump catalog.

 

Your tracks will now go through a detailed classification process and then may be routed to one or more of Pump’s licensing vehicles such as our Pumpbox, our online Soundtrack tool, and other web-based sites. Note it may take up to six months before your music appears on any of these locations as they are updated at different intervals.

 

Please note that due to the large volume of music submissions and the careful review of your music it may take as many as six months to process your music. The steps are:

A.     Detailed classification of your music. We code your music by genre, mood, speed and lots of other important categories to make it easy for our clients to find your music (supplying lyrics helps a lot too!).

B.     Multi-pass QA of your music classifications to guarantee consistency.

C.     Addition of your music to one or more of Pump’s catalogs.

 

Remember:

1.      We can’t predict if or when your music will be licensed by one of our clients.

2.      We can only pay you for music placements after the client reports the use and pays Pump.

3.      We send out payments twice a year, no later than sixty days following the January - June and July - December pay periods.

4.      If you are a U.S. resident, we can’t pay you unless we have a W9 on file. See below for more information.

5.      Check out our FAQ for additional information: http://www.pumpaudio.com/artists/faq.php

GETTING YOU PAID..

**Only send us a W9 if you’ve never sent one before or if your name, address or tax ID has changed. **

-> U.S. Residents
Internal Revenue Service requires that we have W-9’s on file for all U.S. residents that receive royalty payments from us.

 Please complete the “W-9 Form - Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification” and return it to us via U.S. mail. Failure to do so will require Pump Audio, Inc. to withhold 28% from all future payments. You can download the W-9 here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw9.pdf.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact your personal tax advisor.

-> Non-U.S. Residents

Please be advised that Pump Audio, Inc. is required to withhold 30% of any U.S. sourced payment made to non-US Residents. This withholding tax can be reduced if a foreign payee is a resident of a foreign country with which the U.S. has an income tax treaty as long as certain requirements are met (see below):

Requirements

In order to avoid the 30% withholding, a foreign payee must provide Pump Audio, Inc. with a completed Form W-8BEN (Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding). You can find this form here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf  In this form, a payee must provide a U.S. taxpayer identification number and certify that:

·         He or she is a resident of a treaty country

·         He or she is a beneficial owner of the income

·         It meets any limitation on the benefits provision contained in the treaty, if applicable.

If a foreign payee does not have a U.S. taxpayer identification number, he/she can apply for one by filing Form W-7 (Application for IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) with the IRS: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw7.pdf. Pump Audio can provide the letter you will need to certify a business relationship with Pump Audio/Getty Images once your music has been accepted. It often takes 4-6 weeks to process this request.

These forms along with the appropriate instructions for completion can be found on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service website @ http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html If you have questions or need assistance with the completion of these forms, please contact either the IRS through their website, http://www.irs.gov/contact/index.html , where you can find phone numbers listed. You can also consult your personal tax advisor or accountant for assistance. Unfortunately, Pump Audio cannot assist with the filling out or filing of these forms.

Direct Deposit

Payments will be mailed to your address on-file or you have the option of direct deposit into your bank account. If desired, fill out the following form and send it to Pump Audio.  It asks for basic bank information, a voided check and your signature.

http://www.pumpaudio.com/artists/pdfs/paymentform-electronicdeposit.pdf

Remember, double-check the bank information, include a voided check and sign it.

All forms should be mailed to:

ARTIST RELATIONS

Pump Audio, INC.

P.O. Box 458

Tivoli, NY 12583 USA

p.s. We also accepted scanned forms in Adobe PDF format. After signing the forms, scan them and send them to artistrelations@pumpaudio.com with the Subject Line: “Submission#/Media# [put the actual # here], W9 & Direct Deposit”.

What kinds of uses are possible for my music?

Pump Audio will use our connections around the world to try to place your music in television, radio, Internet, film and other media. Pump will enter the music into its database, along with certain descriptive terms and your name. Customers, utilizing our search engine, will be able to locate and audition your music. Possible uses include commercials, promotional spots, background music, on a CD-ROM game, accompanying web site banner ads - anything that benefits from audio enhancement. Most uses will only be a few seconds in duration.

Does Pump actively “push” my music to clients?

No. Instead, we make it easy for our clients to find the music they want through the very easy search interface available on the Pumpbox and Soundtrack music search tool.

The PumpBox is a hard drive containing the very best music from our catalog. Clients are then able to search through tens of thousands of songs by genre, mood, instrument and tempo at their fingertips. Because the PumpBox is attached to the client’s video editing workstation (e.g. Avid or Final Cut Pro) the music is right there at their fingertips.

The Soundtrack tool is a simplified, online version of the PumpBox available to anyone with Internet access. Whereas the Pumpbox is most appropriate for high volume production houses who need 40-50 cues in a 30 minute TV episode, the Soundtrack tool is often used by advertising agencies looking for that single song for their 60 second TV commercial.

When can I expect to get paid?

Pump only pays you after we receive payment from the client. We can only pay you once we receive both a report from the client that your song was used and the payment for that use. In some cases, the reporting of a use and the payment of the use come at different times. You will receive payment in the pay period that Pump receives payment from the client. In many cases, this may be well after the show has aired.  

As per the License Agreement payments are distributed twice a year no later than 60 days after the end of each of the following pay periods: from January 1^st to June 30^th and from July 1^st to December 31^st.

Also, please be advised that all inquiries regarding your artist payment and will be handled by the Getty Images, Pump’s parent company. Any future updates or requests for payment or contact information updates can be made via email:  contributor.updates@gettyimages.com

Thanks & Regards,
Pump Audio Inc.

Introducing a new songwriter to the Songs2Share community. 
His name is David Mac Mullan and he currently resides in Switzerland.  He sent in a photo of himself singing “New York New York” which he says goes over well with his European audiences.

His song titled You’re Going To Break My Heart is in the music player on our home page.  It is a very good mood piece for film, as well as a good performing piece with guitar and vocal alone or orchestrated.