PRS For Music chief executive Robert Ashcroft has given Music Week the inside track on the collecting society’s record-breaking 2016 performance, after over half a billion pounds was paid out in royalties.
Last Friday, the company revealed that £527.6 million was paid out to music creators last year - up 11.1% year-on-year - while revenues soared 10.1% to £621.5m. That was after PRS data volume for the year soared 80%, with 4.3 trillion performances of music reported across the globe.
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