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In 2022 PPL paid out £244.9m to 165,000 performers and recording rightsholders

This marks the highest number of performers and recording rightsholders ever paid by PPL in a calendar year.
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9 UK music creators receive support to attend ESNS 2023 through PRS Foundation’s International Showcase Fund

Supported artists include Big Joanie, Lucinda Chua and The Heavy Heavy.
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Peter Leathem, PPL CEO, awarded OBE in new year honours list

In his Majesty the King’s New Year Honours List Peter Leathem has been awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (“OBE”) for services to the music industry.
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PPL pays out £43.2 million to more than 148,000 performers and recording rightsholders in Q4 2022 distribution

This represents the highest number of performers and recording rightsholders PPL has ever paid in a distribution.
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PPL appoints Titania Altius as Head of Member Services and Dan Millington as SVP/Head of Client Services

PPL today announces two senior appointments in its Member Services department, the team responsible for serving a membership of more than 130,000 performers and recording rightsholders. Titania Altius takes on the role of Head of Member Services while Dan Millington becomes SVP/Head of Client Services.
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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 announces Specially Featured Entertainment (SFE) Tariff to apply from 1 Jan 2023

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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