PPL collects £225.7m in 2020, down 17% from 2019 20th May 2021 UK music licensing company PPL collected £225.7 million for performers and recording rightsholders in 2020, a drop of £46.1 million, or 17%, from the previous year. Unsurprisingly, income from public performance and dubbing declined by a massive 42.2% to £57.5 million as a result of the pandemic. Despite the lockdown affecting live performance, the 2020 total is PPL’s third highest annual collection to date. This is a result of strong international collection which totalled £85.9m in 2020, a drop of just 0.9% from the record £86.7 million collected in 2019. With more added to its existing roster in 2020, PPL now has agreements with 105 international music licensing companies.