PIONEER AWARD

PRS for Music is a world-leading music collective management organisation representing the rights of more than 180,000 talented songwriters, composers and music publishers. Redefining the global standard for music royalties, PRS for Music ensures songwriters and composers are paid whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. 

For more than 110 years it has grown and protected the rights of the music creator community, paying out royalties with more accuracy, transparency and speed. In 2024, PRS for Music paid out £1.02 billion in royalties and collected a record £1.15 billion in revenues.

ARTIST & MANAGER PARTNERSHIP AWARD

As the UK’s music licensing company for more than 140,000 performers and recording rightsholders, PPL license recorded music when it is played in public or broadcast on the radio or TV in the UK and then distribute the fees to the performers and recording rightsholders we represent.

Through a network of international agreements with collective management organisations (CMOs) in other countries, PPL is also able to collect royalties for performers and recording rightsholders when their recorded music is played around the world.

ENTREPRENEUR AWARD

Sound Royalties offers fixed-fee, fixed-term royalty advances to music creatives, labels, publishers, and distributors, without ever taking ownership of copyrights or a percentage of future works.

Celebrating more than a decade in business, the company works with over 170 CMOs, PROs, labels, publishers, and distributors around the world to provide flexible funding options to thousands of creatives and businesses in every genre. In addition to music royalty financing, Sound Royalties offers funding solutions for YouTube content creators/channel owners and TV production companies.

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Founded in 2006 by former music producer Jorge Brea, Symphonic Distribution provides thousands of new and established record labels, managers, and artists with global digital music and video distribution to hundreds of retail and streaming platforms, playlist pitching, release promotion, and a comprehensive suite of label services. 

WRITER / PRODUCER MANAGER AWARD

Concord Music Publishing owns or administers nearly one million copyrighted musical works with its headquarters in Nashville and global offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Berlin and Melbourne. Spanning nearly two centuries of song, through a vast array of genres and territories, Concord represents the world’s most celebrated songwriters, composers and lyricists. Concord is home to the world’s leading classical music publishers  Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski Music Publishing and also operates exclusive joint ventures with influential publisher PULSE Music Group and GRAMMY®, CMA and ACM awarded songwriter Hillary Lindsey’s Hang Your Hat Music, as well as our sub-publishers around the world.

BREAKTHROUGH MANAGER OF THE YEAR

ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD

Created in 2017, Tixel is the honest fan-to-fan ticket exchange and waitlist that gives artists the power to own their audience and reduce no-shows while protecting fans from touts and scammers. Tixel partners directly with some of the greatest musicians across the globe — from artists like Gorillaz and Take That to Rüfüs Du Sol and You Me At Six. 

Tixel can help drive ticket sales, reduce no-shows, and save fans from dead-end waitlist alerts. Tixel also uncovers extra demand and fan data to inform capacity planning and enable audience ownership. Learn more at partners.tixel.com/artists.