PPL’s royalty distributions bounce 19.9% to $72.8M in last quarter of 2025

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 change charges, for the ultimate payout of the 12 months. That’s up from £45.3 million within 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 autumn fee to recording rightsholders, serving to to make sure that music continues to be a sustainable profession selection for each performers and recording rightsholders,” mentioned Shamus Damani, Advisor Director of Enterprise Affairs at Defected Information.

“It’s clear from these figures that PPL continues to deliver large worth to the music trade, and our collaboration with them performs a serious half within the continued success of our enterprise.”

“PPL continues to deliver large worth to the music trade, 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 as a consequence of ongoing information enhancements, and from Sweden because of again funds below a personal copying settlement.

“Recording rightsholders are receiving vital 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 most recent payout went to 147,000 performers and recording rightsholders, both as direct members of PPL or not directly by way of different CMOs, and included greater than 8,500 first time payees. The 12 months’s final royalty distribution contains 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) below 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 way of the fund, which covers recordings launched between 1963 and 1973. Among the many recordings turning into eligible for ASR fund funds this 12 months are Elton John‘s Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway and Wizzard’s I Want It Might Be Christmas Each 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 fee to performers and recording rightsholders within the UK and past.

“My because of all of the PPL group who work to ship this constructive final result, in addition to the entire CMOs world wide with whom we collaborate on collections, information and expertise developments. All of which is making the motion of funds world wide ever simpler and environment friendly for our members.”Music Enterprise Worldwide