PRS for Music has struck a partnership with B2B streaming service Soundtrack to collect play data from roughly 7,000 UK shops, bars and other public venues. The collection society will use that data to inform royalty distributions to songwriters, composers and music publishers.
The new reporting pipeline is set to begin feeding into PRS royalty payments starting December 2026, giving the organization more granular insight into how music is used in commercial and public settings.
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