PRS payments / royalties

[pingu748]

How do artists keep track of which of their tracks are being played by the media to get payment ? And what is the sort of figure they get per play ?

[andy-hughes]

They don't - the media fill in pre-prepared forms and forward them to the PRS (Performing Rights Society) which calculates the royalties and distributes them accordingly.

I think payment rates vary depending on various Machieavellian schemes of times of day and so on.

[andy-hughes]

More information here - http://www.vocalist.org.uk/copyright_royalties .html

[Miss-taken]

As someone who has quite literally today sent off the quarterly PRS return for where I work - I'm pretty certain most of the charges are a complete stab in the dark - easily the most disorganised lot of cowboys I've ever dealt with!