PPL Paid Over $300M to 165,000 Performers and Recording Rightsholders in 2022

PPL paid out £244.9m ($303.6m) to 165,000 performers and recording rightsholders in 2022.

UK-based music licensing firm PPL introduced that in 2022, the corporate paid out £244.9 million ($303.6 million) to 165,000 performers and recording rightsholders — a greater than 7% enhance from £228.7 in 2021. 

Moreover, this can be a 12.2% enhance from 147,000 performers and rightsholders in 2021, both as direct members of PPL or not directly by means of different collective administration organizations (CMOs). The cash paid out was collected by PPL for the usage of recorded music within the UK and internationally, paid throughout the corporate’s 4 quarterly distributions in 2022.

This feat marks the very best variety of performers and recording rightsholders ever paid by PPL in a calendar 12 months and the second-highest complete of monies paid out by PPL in a calendar 12 months behind 2020 — due to the report collections in 2019 earlier than the devastating influence of the COVID pandemic.

The report variety of performers and recording rightsholders receiving payout displays the important technological and operational investments PPL and the neighboring rights business made during the last decade and the rising PPL membership.

“During the last decade, PPL has turn out to be one of many world’s most profitable neighboring rights corporations,” says Peter Leathem OBE, PPL Chief Govt Officer. “Not solely can we accumulate tons of of thousands and thousands of kilos from the UK and around the globe, however every year we distribute this cash to an increasing number of performers and recording rightsholders than earlier than.”

PPL has some of the complete repertoire databases of its variety on the earth, holding detailed performer and recording rightsholder info on greater than 20 million recordings. During the last three years, a mean of 45,000 new recording particulars have been obtained every week. 

It additionally works carefully with accomplice organizations throughout the music business to develop the expertise and operations affecting the neighboring rights sector and assist to enhance the standard of recording metadata and identification of recording utilization. 

“This can be a testomony to each the professional group we now have at PPL (and) to the efforts of the sector as a complete. Initiatives reminiscent of SCAPR’s VRDB and IFPI and WIN’s RDx are enhancing the expertise and information which help the worldwide distribution of neighboring rights, so guaranteeing the fitting folks and organizations are paid when their recordings are performed,” explains Leathem. 

“It is usually constructive to have the ability to pay out extra money to performers and recordings rightsholders than we did in 2021. Neighboring rights (had been) naturally impacted by COVID-19, however the sector continues to get well properly, with extra progress anticipated in 2023.”