is subject to The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This means that you don’t have to spend your time and energy contacting potentially hundreds of thousands of rightsholders - those people who create music – to get permission to play or perform their music in your business.
Obtaining TheMusicLicence gives you this permission, in relation to the vast majority of commercially available music. This ranges from grassroots and independent artists and composers through to the biggest names in the business.
So, hopefully this will help you to distinguish between the two licences required to entertain your customers and guests with music and live events.
With entertainment in mind, the festive season is now in full flow, and whilst many businesses are busy organising décor, promotions and the staff party, they should also be turning attention to their musical playlist.
What does the perfect festive playlist sound like?
Well judging by the charts and downloads over the past 15 years it seems most of the UK like the sound of Christmas long past. In the official chart of the 20 best-selling
Christmas songs, only two were released post-2000! The decades ranging from the 60s to the 90s are split fairly equally, with Band Aid’s Do They Know it’s Christmas (the 1984 version) unsurprisingly at No. 1a.
Does this reflect your clientele though? Are they likely to enjoy stepping back in time and remembering the year they didn’t get that must-have toy, yet their best mate did? Maybe your customers are hoping to escape the merriment, and that all important last-minute present shopping for an hour, and enjoy a warming hot chocolate or a chilled beer! The key to a great playlist is knowing, and understanding, your audience and what they want.
Come Christmas Eve however, you could always embrace the nostalgia, crack open the mince pies and have a full on sing- along to Fairytale of New York!
Then again, you could always sneak in the 2009 Christmas No. 1 – from Rage Against the Machine. The choice is yours!
With TheMusicLicence, playing music in your venue this Christmas period could cost you as little as 77 pence per dayb, and you will be safe in the knowledge that you are licensed to play background music via radio and TV which can improve your brand, help your customers to feel welcome and
valued and could also increase staff morale.
And now we are making it even easier for you to buy TheMusicLicence.
Previously businesses needed to buy two separate music licences, one from PPL and one from PRS for Music. These two bodies have listened to their customers and formed a new joint venture – PPL PRS Ltd - and created TheMusicLicence. What this means for you is that you can now buy and renew your music licence in one place, with one invoice and one contact. Simple!
www.pplprs.co.uk
a Chart information from
www.officalcharts.com, released 3rd December 2017
b Cost example spread across 365 days based on a premises is which 400sqm, your combined yearly pub and bar music licence could cost around £366 (excluding VAT).
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