We hope you will join in for our day-long celebration! We just want to enjoy everything music can do. Plus, we’re hoping to shine the light on an urgent need to protect human rights for artists.

What’s this about?

The International Day of Music was started at the United Nations 51 years ago. This year, National Sounds, the human rights publication for the music industry, hosts a never-before-done 24-hour livestream!

The 24-Hour Livestream is hosted from inside Yasgur’s Farmhouse, located in upstate New York. It’s the farm that graciously hosted the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Festival.

So, if everything goes the way we are hoping, this livestream is going to make history! It will also shine the light on the need to protect artists.

This invitation is from…

…Corinne D. Sullivan, the creator of National Sounds. She has invited you to perform in the first-ever International Day of Music 24-Hour Livestream.

This celebration has been a dream for Corinne for close to ten years. Most of Corinne’s life has been spent working for one human rights initiative or another. In 2019, she dedicated herself to pushing federal law into place that fairly protects songwriters.

What is National Sounds about?

National Sounds is the music industry’s missing human rights conversation. This publication strives to share all the many untold stories of everyday miracle-makers and the awesome people who own record stores, make instruments, buy and sell music, and support the community. National Sounds also dares to point out the terrible abuse of earnings in music. Abusive practices have made it next to impossible for musical recordings to ever again earn a fair amount in the global marketplace due to streaming undercutting everything.

Why you?

It’s probably your doing! Something about your art means everything. We’d simply be honored to include you in our crew for the day!

Is there any pay for this?

Yes! Here’s how this works:

People pay $10.99 for admission to the 24-Hour Livestream. Once it’s over, it’s done! No one will want to miss it!

50% of every $10.99 payment goes directly to artists who perform that day. An additional 10% of each ticket goes only to the artists who are performing some time between midnight and 4:59 am.

At the conclusion of the entire 24-hour day, on Friday, October 2, the total earnings shall be divided by the number of minutes and seconds each act was streamed. The amount paid is determined by (a) the total tickets sold to the 24-Hour Livestream and (b) the number of minutes each artist/act appears on the livestream.

Pay goes to the individual or the group performing. If you are part of a band or musical act involving more than one people, the pay goes to the entire band. From there, the band decides how to split it up.

Pay is issued by Article 27 Music, LLC, located in Oregon, through a check in the mail, or by Zelle.

What’s the real problem here?

Streaming companies somehow tell everyone at the top of the government how “no one buys CDs or vinyl records anymore”—but it isn’t true! Instead of helping keep music prices adequate to support human life, their lazy approach has cost billions of dollars in revenue since 2018. It’s been easier for them to be the sole profiteers than to support a fair music marketplace.

What’s the truth?

The TRUTH is that these the itsy-bitsy handful of people “at the top” simply don’t spend much time on the road or caring for real fanbases. They don’t understand how much money is lost to the artist.

For example, record stores are supported by vinyl record sales! Independent artists sell-out their CDs at shows or on their websites every month!

More importantly, no one in the United States of America should EVER be allowed to interfere with CD or vinyl production or sales. And yet, the Music Modernization Act from 2018, which permitted streaming companies to side-step about 1000 copyright infringement lawsuits, did just that.

Strategy, anyone?

You, the artist, might not think your voice matters. We are here to assure you it does! We hope to sell 20,000 tickets to the 24-hour livestream. Doing this at $10.99 a piece, for just 24-hours of music, will show how ready the American people are to pay fair prices to listen to the country’s artists. The idea behind the 24-hour livestream is to show major political powers how valuable music really is.

What should I do to perform during the 24-hour livestream?

If you received a link to this page, you are already IN!

Scroll to the bottom of the HOME PAGE. The sign-up form is located there. Fill this in and press SEND. You will receive a confirmation email within one week. And we will try to get back to you faster than that!

The email you receive will include the details concerning your time slot and technical requirements. Additionally, you will need to provide a mailing address for a packet of real-life papers that need your signature. Don’t worry because there will be a pre-addressed return envelope with postage paid. Simply sign the paperwork to formalize the agreement, provide the details of how to pay you or your band, and send it back to us. We will also ask for a photograph for promotional purposes plus a website we can send viewers to, during your portion of the 24-Hour Livestream.

We hope to see you on the International Day of Music!