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Natalie Wade BEM joins PPL as Director of Music Industry Engagement

Natalie Wade BEM, Founder of Small Green Shoots and The Cat’s Mother, has joined PPL as Director of Music Industry Engagement, a newly created role which will see Wade further develop PPL’s relationships with the UK music industry.
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PPL pays out £14.7 million of international revenue in Q3 distribution

In today’s Q3 distribution of international revenue (30 September), PPL will pay £14.7 million to more than 33,000 performers and recording rightsholders, either as direct members of PPL or indirectly through other collective management organisations (CMOs).
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Steve Angello signs with PPL for his international neighbouring rights collections

Steve Angello, producer, DJ and member of the multi-Platinum and Grammy-nominated supergroup Swedish House Mafia, has signed with music licensing company PPL for the administration of his international neighbouring rights collections.
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PPL appoints Kate Reilly to the role of Chief Membership & People Officer
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PPL today announces that it will apply a new Specially Featured Entertainment (“SFE”) tariff from 1 January 2023.
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PPL pays out £71.3 million to a record number of 113,271 performers and recording rightsholders in June distribution

PPL, the UK’s music licensing company for recorded music, today (30 June) makes a payment of £71.3 million to 113,271 performers and recording rightsholders.
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PPL publishes 2022 gender and ethnicity pay gap figures

PPL has published its 2022 gender and ethnicity pay gap figures, as well as setting out its five-year staff diversity aims and a strategy through which these aims are to be achieved.
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PPL CEO Peter Leathem re-elected to the Board of global trade body SCAPR

Peter Leathem, Chief Executive Officer of the music licensing collective management organisation (CMO) PPL, has been re-elected to the Board of global trade body SCAPR for a second four-year term by the organisation’s members at its General Assembly in Rome.
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Leicester’s Curve theatre names seat after PPL CEO Peter Leathem OBE to mark 10 years in role

A seat has been named in Leicester’s Curve theatre to mark Peter Leathem’s 10th year as Chief Executive Officer of music licensing company PPL.
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PPL International collections hit a record £94 million in 2021
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Bigger than ever, The British Music Embassy returns to SXSW
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Applications open for new artist development programme, Inside Track, with Ivor Novello Award winner Cassell the Beatmaker
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