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Register with your home performers' society. It pays you when the recordings you play or sing on are broadcast or played in public, and it can collect from other countries where it has agreements.

PPL

Phonographic Performance Limited · United Kingdom

Your home society
Who can join
Performers, Record producers
Joining fee
Free: 'It's free to join'.
Yearly fee
Not published (PPL says it is free to join and keeps no profit)
Processing time
Not published
Apply online
Yes. You apply in myPPL, the online portal: create an account, complete the registration form(s), then verify your ID.
Members from abroad
Non-UK entities can join; PPL lists the documents needed for non-UK companies. For performers, qualifying countries include all EU states and many others (see the Performer Qualification Rules).
Who is eligible
  • Performers: you have performed on recorded music represented by PPL that has been broadcast or played in public.
  • Recording rightsholders: you own or exclusively license the rights in commercially released recordings to play in public and broadcast them in the UK.
  • To be paid, a performance must be a 'qualifying performance': based on the country where it took place, or the performer's residence/citizenship at the time, under UK law.
  • Studio producers can be paid only if they conducted or directed a performance while it was recorded. They are added as non-featured performers via the Eligible Studio Producer form.
  • Under-18 performers must contact PPL for a special form, which a parent or guardian co-signs (with their own ID and proof of relationship).
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Sources and notes

Performer and recording rightsholder are separate membership types. If both apply to you, myPPL guides you through each one.

Representatives (e.g. managers) need their own myPPL representative account. Each performer or rightsholder they represent must still join in their own right.

Music video rights go through PPL's sister company VPL, not PPL.

UK royalties are paid once a year in June, with quarterly international payments. PPL has US Qualified Intermediary status, so its collections are not hit by 30% US withholding tax.

Once a member, claim your performances on recordings in the PPL Repertoire Database. If a track is missing, ask the rightsholder to add it.

Sources — PPL's own pages, read on 2026-10-06. Fees and rules change: the society's site is the reference.

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Why join?

Songwriters

Societies pay the writers registered with them. If you write songs and aren't a member of an authors' society, your writer share of radio, TV, live and streaming plays can't reach you. It sits unidentified until it is claimed, or is shared out to others.

Performers

When a recording you are on is broadcast or played in public, performers are owed a share (neighbouring rights). It is paid through performers' societies, and registering is how it finds you.

Producers and publishers

Master owners collect their share of the same plays through producers' societies. Publishers collect the publisher share of the songs through the authors' society. Both collect through a society membership.

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