May 2025 Distribution Update
Over 100 million being paid out on 15 May.
More than £200 million in royalties has been paid out so far this year, including £75 million in April.
On 15 May we're paying out over £100 million in royalties; this includes the delayed royalties from the April distribution.
Major contributions come from Broadcast and Video on Demand (GEOL) as well as a significant payment from Public Performance.
- Broadcast royalties including commercial radio, Viacom (MTV), Discovery TV, Sky and BBC TV & Radio
- Royalties from TV On Demand services including Netflix and Disney+
- Live concerts royalties including UK and International MLCS
- Public Performance, including DJ Monitor and Public Reception royalties
- Online (MTOL) royalties from Meta and TikTok
- Royalties from licences that cover online music use for small to medium sized business (LOML and LOML+) and the public use of background music by businesses (MSB2B)
- NBC Universal for music used from January 2024 to December 2024
- Disney for music used from January 2023 to December 2024
- TNT Sports for music used from December 2023 to December 2024
- B4U for music used from January 2023 to December 2024
- KICC for music used from January 2023 to December 2024
On 15 April, we paid out over £75 million royalties from:
- Royalties from online streaming services (MTOL), including YouTube, Spotify and Deezer
- International royalty collections, including from ASCAP (USA), BMI (USA), APRA (Australia), SOCAN (Canada) and JASRAC (Japan)
- Commercial radio year end reconciliation from 2022/2023
- Major live concert royalties (MLCS)
- Multi-Territory Online (MTOL) royalties for writer members who are published by Sony/Warner
