UK music licensing company PPL paid out over $61m to performers and recording rightsholders in Q4

UK music licensing firm PPL paid out £48.7 million (approx $61.9m) to over 137,000 performers and recording rightsholders in its closing quarterly distribution of the yr – a brand new excessive for its December fee.

PPL stories that the £48.7 million represents a 13% rise from the £43.2 million paid out in December 2022. This consists of collections from using recorded music within the UK and abroad.

PPL says that this December distribution displays the additional growth of its community of worldwide CMO companions.

Income is being newly allotted to PPL members from 63 totally different CMOs – the very best ever in a single distribution – together with first-time funds for performers from AMANAT (Kazakhstan) and for recording rightsholders from SELMI (Indonesia), and important funds from France, Germany and the USA.

PPL now has 113 agreements with abroad counterparts, with new partnerships signed just lately with RAYS (Azerbaijan) and ISAMRA (India).

Greater than 12,500 non-featured performers from the UK and around the globe additionally acquired supplementary remuneration for Copyright Time period Extension, from recordings launched between 1963 and 1971 – the ninth yr PPL has administered such funds.

Additionally included on this This fall fee is income from PPL’s sister firm VPL, which licenses music movies when they’re performed in public or broadcast on TV.

“Administering our highest ever December fee, significantly from extra of our worldwide counterparts than ever earlier than, is the right solution to finish 2023.”

Peter Leathem OBE, PPL

PPL CEO Peter Leathem OBE stated: “Administering our highest ever December fee, significantly from extra of our worldwide counterparts than ever earlier than, is the right solution to finish 2023.

“All yr the PPL staff works onerous to maximise the earnings for our members and pay them what they’re owed for the creativity and funding they make into the music we get pleasure from throughout us.”

Added Leathem: “Understanding that we’re supporting the livelihoods of 1000’s of people that make a dwelling from music, significantly with a fee at the moment of yr, is a good motivator for everybody.

“I’m delighted that this fee consists of income from extra CMOs than ever – an actual demonstration of the impression of our collaborative nature, our growing community of neighbouring rights agreements, and the funding in our world-leading expertise to course of the thousands and thousands of strains of knowledge required to pay our 1000’s of members for using their recorded music.”Music Enterprise Worldwide