PPL, the UK’s collective administration group (CMO) for performers and recording rightsholders, has reported a 19.9% improve in payouts for the final 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 change charges, for the final payout of the 12 months. That’s up from £45.3 million in the identical interval a 12 months earlier.
PPL attributed the efficiency to rising worldwide collections.
“This 12 months I imagine PPL has delivered its largest worldwide This fall cost to recording rightsholders, serving to to be sure that music continues to be a sustainable profession alternative for each performers and recording rightsholders,” mentioned Shamus Damani, Consultant Director of Business Affairs at Defected Records.
“It is evident from these figures that PPL continues to convey large worth to the music business, and our collaboration with them performs a significant half in the continued success of our enterprise.”
“PPL continues to convey large worth to the music business, and our collaboration with them performs a significant half in the continued success of our enterprise.”
Shamus Damani, Defected Records
PPL has agreements with 63 worldwide CMOs to distribute royalties generated in these markets. The firm says performer collections from Denmark, Germany and the US elevated due to ongoing information enhancements, and from Sweden thanks to again funds underneath a personal copying settlement.
“Recording rightsholders are receiving important funds from Belgium this quarter following improved collaboration round repertoire information, in addition to substantial funds from Germany, Hungary, Romania and Spain,” PPL mentioned.
The newest payout went to 147,000 performers and recording rightsholders, both as direct members of PPL or not directly by different CMOs, and included greater than 8,500 first time payees. The 12 months’s final royalty distribution consists of income from VPL, which licenses music movies when they’re performed in public or broadcast on TV.
PPL mentioned it made a “appreciable” payout of £2.3 million ($3.1 million) underneath 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 the fund, which covers recordings launched between 1963 and 1973. Among the recordings changing into eligible for ASR fund funds this 12 months are Elton John‘s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.
In complete, PPL says it has paid out £277.7 million ($372.2 million) to performers and recording rightsholders in 2025.
PPL CEO Peter Leathem OBE mentioned he’s “happy to shut the 12 months with such a robust cost to performers and recording rightsholders in the UK and past.
“My thanks to all of the PPL crew who work to ship this constructive consequence, in addition to all of the CMOs around the globe with whom we collaborate on collections, information and know-how developments. All of which is making the motion of funds around the globe ever simpler and environment friendly for our members.”Music Business Worldwide
