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