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The BPI represents the UK’s record companies and labels and champions British music. Through its policy-led work, it fosters an environment in which its members and their artists can thrive, promoting the rights of hundreds of independent labels and those of world-leading record companies Sony Music UK, Universal Music UK and Warner Music UK, alongside those of the artists, performers and label members of PPL. The BPI runs The BRIT Awards, is home to the Mercury Prize, co-owns the Official Charts, and administers the BRIT Billion and The BRIT Certified Awards.
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The BPI safeguards the success of UK recorded music and the rights framework that underpins it, supported by its industry-leading content protection work and its promotion of British music exports through international events and trade missions, such as LA Sync, and the industry/government-funded Music Export Growth Scheme. The BPI drives innovation by bringing the music and tech communities together through such initiatives as Grow Music and its Insight Sessions, publishes market data insights including its All About the Music yearbooks, and offers members free training and networking among other benefits.
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With its Equity & Justice Advisory Group, BPI promotes Diversity, Equity & Inclusion across music and, as a signatory of the Music Climate Pact, is committed to an industry that operates sustainably in reducing its carbon impact. The BPI recognises the vital importance of the talent pipeline and of music/creative arts education in enabling access and opportunities for people of all backgrounds to realise their potential, which it also supports through The BRIT Trust charity.
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BBC Introducing supports musical talent across the UK. There’s over 1,000,000 tracks uploaded to the BBC Introducing uploader and over 300,000 artists registered.
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BBC Introducing provides a platform to propel new acts onto the national stage through Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, 6 Music, The Asian Network and Radio 3. It gives up-and-coming artists broadcast opportunities on BBC radio, television and online alongside the chance to perform at major festivals and showcases. Big name artists including Ed Sheeran, Florence + the Machine, Lewis Capaldi, Raye, Sam Fender, Aitch, Olivia Dean, Myles Smith, Nia Archives and Tom Grennan all received BBC Introducing support at the start of their careers.
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BBC Introducing offers new musicians the chance to get played on national day-time radio, to record their own Maida Vale sessions and perform at the biggest festivals in the UK and internationally, including Glastonbury, Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Reading and Leeds, and The Great Escape.
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Bowers & Wilkins, founded in the U.K. in 1966, has been at the forefront of high-performance audio technology for more than 50 years. It designs and manufactures precision home speakers, headphones, custom installation and performance car audio products that set new standards for innovation and sound quality, earning countless awards and accolades from the world’s leading recording studios and musicians.
Bowers & Wilkins’ reputation is based on the unwavering pursuit of the best possible sound and an unsurpassable music listening experience. Learn more at: www.bowerswilkins.com
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The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. We do this through our work in arts and culture, education and the English language. We work with people in over 200 countries and territories and are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2022-23 we reached 600 million people – www.britishcouncil.org
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Department for Business and Trade (DBT):
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The UK’s Department for Business and Trade is an economic growth department. We ensure fair, competitive markets at home, secure access to new markets abroad and support businesses to invest, export and grow. Our priorities are the Industrial Strategy, Make Work Pay, the Trade Strategy and the Plan for Small Business.
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PPL is the UK music industry’s collective management organisation (CMO) for performers and recording rightsholders. We license recorded music in the UK when it is played in public (bars, nightclubs, shops, offices, etc.) or broadcast (BBC, commercial radio, commercial TV, etc.) and we work to ensure that revenue flows back to both our own members and those of our international CMO partners. Our members include both independent and major record companies, together with performers ranging from emerging grassroots artists through to established session musicians and globally renowned artists.
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In 2023, PPL’s revenue was £283.5 million, the highest in the organisation’s 90-year history, and we paid close to 165,000 performers and recording rightsholders.
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PPL’s public performance licensing is carried out on our behalf by PPL PRS Ltd, the joint venture between PPL and PRS for Music. Through a network of agreements with CMOs around the world, we also collect performance rights royalties internationally when music is played overseas in public and used on TV, radio and some online streaming services, as well as for private copying. International royalties are an increasingly important revenue stream for performers and recording rightsholders.
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PRS Foundation has for 25 years invested in the future of music – funding new music and supporting careers from the grassroots up. Since 2000,PRS Foundation has given more than £50 million to over 9,000 new music initiatives. 6 out of the last 7 Mercury Prize winners had received PRS Foundation support (including recent winner English Teacher) and the charity has supported BRITS, RPS, AIM and Ivors Award-winners.
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PRS Foundation supports outstanding talent from all backgrounds, covering the whole of the UK and all genres, with grantee success stories including Little Simz, Wolf Alice, Dave, Sam Fender, Years & Years, AJ Tracey, Anna Meredith, Yola, Glass Animals, Ezra Collective, Jade Bird, Ghetts, Shiva Feshareki, Sarathy Korwar, Floating Points, Nadine Shah, The Fanatix, Imogen Heap, IDLES, Kae Tempest, Kojey Radical and Emily Burns.
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Widely respected as an inclusive, collaborative and proactive funding body, PRS Foundation supports an exceptional range of new music activity through direct grants to music creators and through support for pioneering organisations, including venues, festivals, promoters and other talent development organisations. PRS Foundation founded the Women Make Music fund, co-founded global gender equality initiative, Keychange and most recently launched the POWER UP initiative to tackle anti-Black racism in music – www.prsfoundation.com
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