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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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PRS Foundation announces the Wales-based music creators and industry professional receiving the first PPL Momentum Sbardun | Accelerator support
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Launchpad and PRS Foundation announce a joint 2023 Talent Development Conference will take place at Leeds Beckett University on Friday 24th February

The conference is open to everyone involved in music at any level and hoping to gain a better understanding of the music industry.
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Roxanne de Bastion re-elected, David Lee elected as Performer Directors at PPL’s Annual Performer Meeting 2022

At this year's PPL Annual Performer Meeting (APM), singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion was re-elected as a Performer Director, and horn player David Lee was elected as a Performer Director. This means music manager David Stopps steps down as a Performer Director after six years.
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Pit Pony, Deyah, and Imogen among the latest artists to receive PPL Momentum Music Fund support

Eight talented UK-based artists to receive the ground-breaking PPL Momentum Music Fund in its latest round.
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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 visits industry partners in Norway, Belgium and Spain to improve cross-border neighbouring rights revenue flow

In recent weeks PPL has visited a number of our close partners across Europe to discuss further improving how neighbouring rights royalties are distributed around the world, supporting us to maximise royalty revenue for performers and recording rightsholders in the UK and overseas.
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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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CMO Gramex Denmark visits PPL to discuss neighbouring rights best practice

On 15 - 16 August, PPL hosted neighbouring rights collective management organisation (CMO) Gramex Denmark, the country’s neighbouring rights collection society.
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Low Hummer, Panic Shack and Sinead O’Brien among the latest artists to receive PPL Momentum Music Fund support

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, have revealed the latest artists that will receive support from the pioneering PPL Momentum Music Fund.
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