[pompeyjazz]

Just following up on our conversation from last night in the Songwriters Bar regarding royalties and I found this information.

Should you join PRS?
Our one-off membership fee is £100 for writers and composers. So it makes sense to join when you expect the annual use of your music to generate more than this.

Here are a few examples to help you work out the value of joining.

To earn over £100, your music would need to have:

one play on a BBC 1 primetime show
six plays on Sky 1
two plays on ITV
three plays on Channel 4
five plays on BBC Radio 1
150 plays on an independent local radio station
200 plays on an MTV Music Channel

That means that if I was a member of the PRS I would have earned £2.00 this year 

[cowparsleyman]

@pompeyjazz - interesting,

[MichaelA]

Yuck...it looks like the Radio 1 money has not gone up since the early 80s from memory...

You do also get a few quid a year from them as a share of unclaimed royalties.

So probably in about 40 years you will break even John, unless the residency on Radio Solent comes off. 

[Sterix]

Interesting that MTV pays you less than a local indi station...

(tongue in cheek) How much if one of us happens to sneak a rack onto the Bond movie?

[PeteS]

Are you saying that you don't get paid if you aren't a member John?  Are there any other benefits to joining?