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PRS for Music
The UK performing-rights society. If you write and live there, start here.
PRS for Music collects performance royalties in the UK and via reciprocal societies. PPL is the neighboring-rights / recording counterpart — different job, both matter. UK independents should join PRS as a writer (and publisher if you have an entity) and PPL for the recording. DistroKid does not replace this. If you are also earning in the US, you still want The MLC and often SoundExchange; PRS will have a US reciprocal, but recording money is a separate pipe.
Ask Apparition about PRS for Music
Musical context, the business around it, and what to do next.
See also
- TrASCAPUS performing-rights organization. Writer and publisher shares live here.Trade · Royalties
- TrBMIThe other major US PRO. Free to join as a writer.Trade · Royalties
- TrSoundExchangeDigital performance royalties on the master — not the composition.Trade · Royalties
- TeNeighboring rightsRoyalties for the recording and the performers, especially outside the US.Term · Royalties