PPL, the UK’s collective administration group (CMO) for performers and recording rightsholders, has reported a 19.9% improve in payouts for the ultimate quarter of 2025, boosted by worldwide funds.
The CMO paid out £54.3 million on Wednesday (December 17), or USD $72.8 million at present alternate charges, for the ultimate payout of the yr. That’s up from £45.3 million within the identical interval a yr earlier.
PPL attributed the efficiency to rising worldwide collections.
“This yr I imagine PPL has delivered its largest worldwide This autumn fee to recording rightsholders, serving to to make sure that music continues to be a sustainable profession alternative for each performers and recording rightsholders,” stated Shamus Damani, Marketing consultant Director of Enterprise Affairs at Defected Information.
“It’s clear from these figures that PPL continues to convey great worth to the music business, and our collaboration with them performs a serious half within the continued success of our enterprise.”
“PPL continues to convey great worth to the music business, and our collaboration with them performs a serious half within the continued success of our enterprise.”
Shamus Damani, Defected Information
PPL has agreements with 63 worldwide CMOs to distribute royalties generated in these markets. The corporate says performer collections from Denmark, Germany and the US elevated attributable to ongoing knowledge enhancements, and from Sweden due to again funds beneath a personal copying settlement.
“Recording rightsholders are receiving vital funds from Belgium this quarter following improved collaboration round repertoire knowledge, in addition to substantial funds from Germany, Hungary, Romania and Spain,” PPL stated.
The most recent payout went to 147,000 performers and recording rightsholders, both as direct members of PPL or not directly by means of different CMOs, and included greater than 8,500 first time payees. The yr’s final royalty distribution contains income from VPL, which licenses music movies when they’re performed in public or broadcast on TV.
PPL stated it made a “appreciable” payout of £2.3 million ($3.1 million) beneath the Annual Supplementary Remuneration Fund, which was arrange greater than a decade in the past when the UK prolonged the copyright on music to align with EU legal guidelines.
PPL says greater than 20,000 non-featured performers are receiving annual supplementary royalties by means of the fund, which covers recordings launched between 1963 and 1973. Among the many recordings turning into eligible for ASR fund funds this yr are Elton John‘s Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway and Wizzard’s I Want It May Be Christmas Each Day.
In whole, PPL says it has paid out £277.7 million ($372.2 million) to performers and recording rightsholders in 2025.
PPL CEO Peter Leathem OBE stated he’s “happy to shut the yr with such a robust fee to performers and recording rightsholders within the UK and past.
“My due to all of the PPL crew who work to ship this constructive end result, in addition to the entire CMOs around the globe with whom we collaborate on collections, knowledge and know-how developments. All of which is making the motion of funds around the globe ever more practical and environment friendly for our members.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
