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PRS Foundation announces new PPL Momentum Accelerator support for talented artists and music industry professionals in Wales
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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 presents revenue recovery at Annual General Meeting 2022

At today’s PPL Annual General Meeting (20 June) Chief Executive Officer Peter Leathem presented the company’s positive 2021 financial results to its recording rightsholders members.
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Ed Sheeran crowned 2021's most played artist and ‘Bad Habits’ the most played track

PPL announces its Most Played Charts of 2021, with Ed Sheeran ranked the most played artist of the year in the UK and his smash hit ‘Bad Habits’ the UK’s most played track.
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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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Latest PPL Momentum Music Fund and PPL Momentum Yorkshire Accelerator supported artists announced

PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development, together with PPL, Creative Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and Spotify reveal the artists that will receive support from the pioneering PPL Momentum Music Fund.
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PPL and PRS for Music appoint Helen Sachdev as Chair of joint venture
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PPL reports a 12% increase in revenues in 2021 to £252.8 million
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Your music, your rights: the role of PPL in Northern Ireland
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48 UK music organisations announced as PRS Foundation Talent Development Partners