SOCAN's key figures for 2025 (Source: SOCAN)

Canadian rights society SOCAN has collected CA$587.1 million (€361.77m) in 2025, a 5% increase over 2024, and distributed CA$512m (€315.7m) in royalties to songwriters, composers and music publishers, the same amount as the previous year. The organisation’s expense‑to‑revenue ratio reached 13.4% in 2025. SOCAN said the good results reflected "the continued strength and value of music in Canada" as well as "strong growth" in digital, international, g...

Guillaume Damerval, the Managing Director of France's neighbouring rights society SPEDIDAM, has announced that he will step down from his position, effective immediately, after ten years with the organisation. Damerval was appointed MD in 2022. SPEDIDAM did not expand on the reasons for Damerval's departure except to say that he was "moving on to new projects." The Board of Directors of SPEDIDAM has appointed Franck Edouard, current Director of Cultural Affairs at SPEDIDAM, as Interim Managing ...

British neighbouring rights society PPL has paid out £77.7 million to over 28,000 performers and recording rightsholders in its first distribution of the year, covering Q1 2026. The distribution focused mainly on UK and international income collected in the latter part of 2025, and the first few months of 2026. The Q1 2026 distribution also includes revenue from PPL’s sister company VPL, which licenses music videos when they are played in public or broadcast on TV. PPL said this quarter’s distri...