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Radio Starmaker Fund Annual Report
2017 / 2018
Grant Allocation By Genre
Success Fact: Leif Vollebekk
When you're starting out, being a touring musician usually means being an opening act. It's good exposure but budgets can be tight and having access to the Radio Starmaker Fund can really make a difference. Later, when you start headlining your own shows, their support means that it's not a stretch to bring the band out on the road for weeks on end and try to grow your audience in new cities.
A good publicist is worth their weight in gold. Thanks in part to the Radio Starmaker Fund, my record label was able to hire some the smartest, hardest-working people I've met in this business, which meant new faces at every show. And it meant people knew the words to my songs in places I hadn't ever even set foot. What a difference that made.
I count myself lucky to live in Canada where organizations like the Radio Starmaker Fund step in to help with the costs of making independent music.
Leif Vollebekk
Artist
| Total Approved Funding |
% Of Approved Funding |
Number Of Approved Applications |
Number Of Artists |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | $6,662,321 | 100.00% | 325 | 112 |
| Pop | $885,064 | 13.28% | 44 | 17 |
| Rock | $2,024,011 | 30.38% | 94 | 27 |
| Urban | $431,771 | 6.48% | 24 | 7 |
| Country | $523,551 | 7.86% | 27 | 14 |
| Folk | $1,103,322 | 16.56% | 53 | 21 |
| World | $157,228 | 2.36% | 14 | 4 |
| Blues | $152,719 | 2.29% | 12 | 5 |
| Classical | $243,748 | 3.66% | 15 | 4 |
| Jazz | $90,500 | 1.36% | 6 | 4 |
| Electronic | $371,906 | 5.58% | 21 | 6 |
| Aboriginal | $123,500 | 1.85% | 8 | 3 |
| Misc. | $555,000 | 8.33% | 7 | 0 |
* Number of approved applications for fiscal year includes 7 Miscellaneous Funding applications.