PRS for Music Paid Out a Record-Breaking £100M+ in Live Revenue in 2025

Performing rights management organization PRS for Music, which represents the rights of over 190,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, has released its 2025 financials, revealing a record-breaking year in live revenue collections.

110-year first:

• Revenue collected from live music generated £101.4 million ($136.7 million), the first time it’s surpassed £100 million in PRS’s 110-year history.

• This represents a 13.2% increase on 2024’s payouts.

• Overall revenues from public performance, including live and music played or performed in public (ie. shops, restaurants, bars etc), hit £313.4 million ($422.6 million), a 9.1% YoY bump.

Other highlights:

• PRS for Music paid out against 7.8 million unique works in 2025, an increase of 41% since 2020.

• Royalty collections increased by 7.7% on the previous year to £1.24 billion ($1.67 billion).

• Streaming contributed £351.4 million ($473.8 million) of the royalties collected, up 11.8% on 2024.

• Video-on-Demand revenue increased 20.1% YoY to £77.2 million ($104.1 million).

• Collectively, PRS collected £447.2 million ($603 million) in online royalties, up 9.6% on 2024.

• PRS paid out £1.07 billion ($1.44 billion) to rightsholders in 2025, a 4.9% increase on 2024.

• 4,451 songwriters and composers were paid for the first time.

What they said:

• Andrea Czapary Martin, CEO, PRS for Music: “We've delivered another year of strong growth, with revenues up 7% and for the second consecutive year paying over £1 billion to songwriters, composers and publishers. In just 10 years PRS has doubled the value flowing back to rightsholders, £621m in 2016 to £1.24bn in 2025, by accelerating licensing in new markets and securing new terms with major existing customers.”