US digital performance royalties agency SoundExchange has published some figures for last year, showing that its distributions grew by 4% to nearly $947m. That’s good news during the Covid-19 pandemic when […]
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UK collecting society PPL reveals its figures for 2020
Collecting society revenues are an important metric to judge the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on musicians’ (and specifically on songwriters’) incomes. UK society PPL has announced its latest figures […]
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PRS for Music collections fell by 19.7% in 2020 due to Covid-19
There is good news and bad news in this morning’s financials announcement from British collecting society PRS for Music. 2020 saw record payouts from the PRO of £699.4m ($973.5m) to […]
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PPL’s Q1 distribution is down 30% due to Covid-19 impact
UK collecting society PPL has announced its Q1 2021 distribution to artists and recorded music rightsholders, and it’s a good (if bleak) marker for the impact that Covid-19 has had on performance […]
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T-Series finally joins Indian collecting society IPRS
India’s collecting society IPRS now has a full set of major music companies from the country, after T-Series joined the likes of Saregama and Times Music (plus the local subsidiaries […]
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Socan makes its livestreams licensing system permanent
In May 2020, Canadian collecting society Socan became one of the first PROs to launch a licensing scheme for livestreamed concerts. It was called ‘Encore’ and would pay songwriters and publishers when […]
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Belgian collecting society Sabam joins the Ice core in Europe
European licensing hub Ice was founded by three collecting societies: PRS for Music, Stim and Gema. However, its ‘Ice Core’ also licenses repertoire from other entities: Imro, BMI and independent […]
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Spanish collecting society SGAE rejoins Cisac after reforms
One of Spain’s collecting societies, SGAE, is coming in from the cold and being readmitted to global PROs organisation Cisac, after reforms that the latter say “have transformed the society and […]
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PRS for Music’s livestreaming licence sparks another row
In December, UK collecting society PRS for Music’s proposed tariff for livestreamed concerts drew an angry response from manager and artist bodies MMF and FAC, claiming that it would make livestreams […]
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PRS Foundation launches ‘Power Up’ anti-racism initiative
PRS Foundation is hoping to follow the success of its Keychange initiative, which supports underrepresented genders in the music industry, with a new movement tackling anti-Black racism. It’s called ‘Power […]
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Nigerian musicians await resolution in battle of the PROs
In January 2019 during a panel on Africa’s music industries at NY:LON Connect, Chocolate City group’s Aibee Abidoye talked about one of the challenges in Nigeria: competing collecting societies causing confusion […]
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Publishers and PROs ‘disappointed’ as US consent decrees are unchanged
The US Justice Department has decided to leave the ‘consent decrees’ governing public performances of music unchanged, sparking an unimpressed response from publishers and collecting societies there. This is the […]