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GUEST OF HONOUR: Mr Tan Chuan-Jin Minister for Social and Family Development List of Recipients No. Category & Description Details 1 TOP LOCAL ENGLISH POP SONG 年度本地英语流行歌曲 Lagu Pop Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik Highest royalty-earning local English pop composition. Song: Happy Little Pill By: Tong Hong Tat 汤鸿达 (Composer & Lyricist) 2 TOP LOCAL CHINESE POP […]

Dear Member RE:  INVITATION TO 22ND COMPASS AWARDS PRESENTATION On behalf of the Board of Directors of COMPASS, we cordially invite you to attend our: 22nd COMPASS Awards Presentation scheduled on Sunday, 3rd September 2017. Venue : Resorts World Convention Centre, West Central Ballroom, Basement 2 Admission & Cocktail Reception : Starts at 6.00 pm […]

In order to improve our administration processes and accuracy, we are embarking on an ongoing exercise to collate members’ work registrations, by also requesting for a copy of the work in either original CD or as an audio MP3 files. For unpublished works, good quality demo CDs / MP3 files are also acceptable. Kindly send […]

We are interested in what you are up to! So, feel free to update us on your upcoming events, concerts, album launches, etc. or even news that you aren’t personally involved in, as long as it concerns local songs / the local music industry. We will selectively feature some in our quarterly newsletter and / […]

In order to reduce the stress and loss of post-mailed cheques, royalty payments from 2015 will be made via interbank transfer (where possible). Hence, we will be progressively updating member records so that eventually there will no longer be a need for members to receive their royalty cheques in the mail and then find the […]

Dear Members, Please note that our office will be closed from 27th Jan (Friday) to 31st Jan 2017 (Tuesday). Normal operations will resume on 1st Feb 2017 (Wednesday). We wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year! Huat ar!!  

The most asked question as we ponder on mortality would be how songwriters leave a personal legacy for future generations to come or even information on their music journey. With this in mind, National Library has undertaken the massive task of gathering information and music files of local songwriters, digitised and collated it all in […]

The 22nd COMPASS Awards Presentation will be held in September 2017, 7pm at Resorts World Sentosa, West Central Ballroom. Nominations for the following awards categories are now open:- 1) COMPASS Artistic Excellence Award Outstanding individuals/collective group who have excelled in their respective musical fields, eg. performing musicians, music arrangers, music producers etc. 2) COMPASS Meritorious […]

GUEST OF HONOUR: Ms Sim Ann Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth & Ministry of Trade and Industry List of Recipients No. Category & Description Details 1 TOP LOCAL ENGLISH POP SONG 年度本地英语流行歌曲 Lagu Pop Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik Highest royalty-earning local English pop composition. Song: Until We Die By: Joel Tan […]