https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/ Latest news from RadioPRO Music en https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/important-update-protecting-our-community-with-member-verification https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/important-update-protecting-our-community-with-member-verification Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:40:58 GMT Following our Annual General Meeting on 28 December 2025, RadioPRO is introducing an upgraded verification step for all members. Why we are doing this We want to keep our community safe. The Board has made this a priority in order to protect members from fraud and identity theft. Making sure every member’s details are genuine https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-ltds-mission-to-transform-royalty-management-in-the-music-industry https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-ltds-mission-to-transform-royalty-management-in-the-music-industry Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:14:20 GMT By Martha Mendoza, RadioPRO Board Member Artists have never had more ways to reach an audience, and they have rarely had a harder time being paid properly for it. As streaming reshaped how music gets consumed, it also made royalty collection considerably more complicated. That gap – between how widely music travels and how reliably https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/acceptance-speech-by-dr-eleftherios-rinos-managing-director-of-radiopro-ltd https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/acceptance-speech-by-dr-eleftherios-rinos-managing-director-of-radiopro-ltd Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:46:30 GMT Dear friends, colleagues, and everyone here today, Let me begin by saying how honoured I am to stand before you as the new Managing Director of RadioPRO Ltd. Your trust means a great deal to me, particularly as the only returning member of the previous Board. I am looking forward to working with the new https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/official-announcement-change-of-managing-director-at-radiopro-ltd https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/official-announcement-change-of-managing-director-at-radiopro-ltd Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:21:20 GMT Dear Members, Partners and Colleagues, There has been a significant change in the leadership of RadioPRO Ltd, effective 18 September 2024. At the Special General Meeting held on that date, Mrs Yoshi Moon, Managing Director of CMO RadioPRO Ltd, formally stepped down to take up a new role as CEO of RadioPro LLC in the https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/speech-by-mrs-yoshi-moon-managing-director-of-radiopro-ltd-at-the-special-genera https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/speech-by-mrs-yoshi-moon-managing-director-of-radiopro-ltd-at-the-special-genera Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:00:11 GMT Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed members of RadioPRO Ltd, colleagues and friends, I stand before you today with a real sense of responsibility, and of pride. As Managing Director of RadioPRO, it is an honour to address this Special General Meeting, where we meet as one body to take stock of the progress we have made, https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/blog-notice-of-special-general-meeting-of-radiopro-ltd-18-september-2024 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/blog-notice-of-special-general-meeting-of-radiopro-ltd-18-september-2024 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:01:40 GMT Dear Members, Notice is hereby given that a Special General Meeting (SGM) of RadioPRO Ltd, company number 10950436, registered office Piccadilly Business Centre, Aldow Enterprise Park, Blackett Street, Manchester M12 6AE, United Kingdom, will be held on Wednesday 18 September 2024 at 1:00pm, in accordance with Article 51, Paragraph 12 of our Company Constitution. At https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/copyright-licenses-vital-for-artistic-creation-funds-centered-around-radiopro https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/copyright-licenses-vital-for-artistic-creation-funds-centered-around-radiopro Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:03:17 GMT By Paula Cohen, RadioPRO Board Member Copyright licences rarely get much attention. They are the mechanism by which artists, composers and performers are paid for work that other people are using, and without them most of the creative economy would simply stop functioning. RadioPRO, as a Collective Management Organisation, spends most of its working life https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-ensuring-proper-royalty-management-and-protection-of-rights-holders https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-ensuring-proper-royalty-management-and-protection-of-rights-holders Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:07:43 GMT RadioPRO, a collective management organisation working in music copyright protection, has put firm measures in place to protect the interests of its rights holders. Any organisation outside the United Kingdom that collects money on behalf of RadioPRO without our consent will be required to pay a minimum royalty of £5,000 for each attempt to collect https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/harmonizing-blockchain-revolutionizing-music-royalties-management-with-cryptocur https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/harmonizing-blockchain-revolutionizing-music-royalties-management-with-cryptocur Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:48:37 GMT Explore how cryptocurrency for music royalties distribution is revolutionising the industry for artists and rights holders. https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/notice-of-annual-general-meeting-of-radiopro-ltd-29-february-2024 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/notice-of-annual-general-meeting-of-radiopro-ltd-29-february-2024 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 08:48:04 GMT Dear Members, We invite you to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of RadioPro Ltd, which will be held in hybrid format on Thursday 29 February 2024, commencing at 12:30pm. Venue and participation Piccadilly Business Centre, Aldow Enterprise Park, Blackett Street, Manchester M12 6AE, United Kingdom. For members who cannot attend in person, the AGM will https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/notice-of-special-general-meeting-of-radiopro-ltd-17-january-2024 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/notice-of-special-general-meeting-of-radiopro-ltd-17-january-2024 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:18:26 GMT Dear Members, Notice is hereby given that a Special General Meeting (SGM) of RadioPro Ltd, company number 10950436, registered office Piccadilly Business Centre, Aldow Enterprise Park, Blackett Street, Manchester M12 6AE, United Kingdom, will be held on Wednesday 17 January 2024 at 1:00pm, in accordance with Article 51, Paragraph 12 of our Company Constitution. At https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/announcing-the-radiopro-annual-music-labels-web-summit-2023-a-global-online-even https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/announcing-the-radiopro-annual-music-labels-web-summit-2023-a-global-online-even Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:07:32 GMT Join us for the first RadioPRO Annual Music Labels Web Summit, an online event built around new artists and new music labels from around the world. It runs entirely online on Saturday 28 October 2023, so you can take part wherever you are. Event highlights A global platform for emerging talent. The summit gives up-and-coming https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-keeps-its-low-tariffs-for-the-use-of-its-repertoire-until-the-end-of-20 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-keeps-its-low-tariffs-for-the-use-of-its-repertoire-until-the-end-of-20 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:54:19 GMT Paying royalties for music is not simply a financial obligation. It is an acknowledgement of what went into the work. Every time a song plays, you are hearing the end of a long process: an artist’s passion, their persistence, and the hours spent getting it right. Royalties recognise and reward that effort, and make sure https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/register-for-the-radiopro-ltd-annual-general-meeting-2023 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/register-for-the-radiopro-ltd-annual-general-meeting-2023 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:59:53 GMT Dear Members, Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of RadioPro Ltd will be held as a hybrid meeting on Sunday 7 May 2023, commencing at 12:30pm. We have chosen a hybrid format so that as many members as possible can take part. The meeting will take place at Piccadilly Business Centre, https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-radiopro-annual-summit-manchester-27-28-may-2023 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-radiopro-annual-summit-manchester-27-28-may-2023 Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:08:50 GMT We are delighted to announce the next Annual Summit of the Collective Management Organisation (CMO) RadioPRO Ltd, which will take place on 27 and 28 May 2023. The global music industry is at a crossroads. Digital technology keeps changing, the ways music reaches listeners keep changing with it, and collecting copyright revenue across the European https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/low-cost-music-licensing-by-radiopro-newsletter-02 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/low-cost-music-licensing-by-radiopro-newsletter-02 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:12:11 GMT WHAT IS RADIOPRO RadioPro operates as a Collective Management Organisation, managing copyright and rights related to copyright on behalf of rightholders in the music sector. You will need a licence before you play our copyrighted musical works in a public space. If you have a television or a radio, or you use streaming services, the https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/register-for-the-radiopro-ltd-annual-general-meeting-2022 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/register-for-the-radiopro-ltd-annual-general-meeting-2022 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 05:47:03 GMT Dear Members, Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of RadioPro Ltd will be held as a hybrid meeting on Sunday 8 May 2022, commencing at 12:30pm. We have chosen a hybrid format so that as many members as possible can take part. The meeting will take place at Piccadilly Business Centre, https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/complete-tariff-update-due-to-the-covid-19-crisis https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/complete-tariff-update-due-to-the-covid-19-crisis Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:28:01 GMT Our pricing has never mattered more than it does during the COVID-19 crisis, which has caused real financial hardship for many businesses. Our rightholders have therefore agreed a new tariff list with an across-the-board discount of 90 percent in most cases, to make it easier for businesses to pay what they owe. It means that https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/an-extended-reciprocal-agreement-was-signed-between-radiopro-ltd-uk-and-rrml-ire https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/an-extended-reciprocal-agreement-was-signed-between-radiopro-ltd-uk-and-rrml-ire Fri, 15 Jan 2021 22:15:33 GMT RadioPro Ltd (radiopromusic.co.uk), one of the Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) established in the United Kingdom, has secured continued protection for its repertoire in the European Economic Area (EEA) after Brexit, with the best interests of its rights holders in mind. Until the end of 2020, RadioPro Ltd was able to collect royalties within the EEA, https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/implementing-isrc-codes-in-all-radiopro-represented-music-works https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/implementing-isrc-codes-in-all-radiopro-represented-music-works Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:42:36 GMT Dear Friends and Members, RadioPro has been working with its Members, Partners and associated Publishers to implement ISRC codes across every music work the organisation represents. The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) is the international system for identifying sound recordings and music videos. Each ISRC is a unique identifier that can be permanently encoded into https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/domain-name-change-for-radiopro-ltd https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/domain-name-change-for-radiopro-ltd Sat, 31 Oct 2020 17:19:30 GMT Dear Friends and Members, Because of Brexit, the Collective Management Organisation RadioPro Ltd will no longer be permitted to hold a .eu domain name. To prepare for the period after 31 December 2020, our hosting provider and the company that builds and maintains our website worked around the clock to move the site to a https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/annual-general-meeting-14-may-2021 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/annual-general-meeting-14-may-2021 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:48:22 GMT Dear friends, Our Annual General Meeting will take place at 5pm on Friday 14 May 2021. The purpose of the meeting is to approve the Annual Accounts, the Report of the Director, the Audited Financial Statements and the Annual Transparency Report for the financial year ended 30 September 2020, in accordance with “The Collective Management https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-1-june-2020 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-1-june-2020 Fri, 01 May 2020 08:57:16 GMT Dear friends, Our Special General Meeting will take place at 9pm on Monday 1 June 2020. The purpose of the meeting is to approve the Annual Accounts, the Report of the Director, the Audited Financial Statements and the Annual Transparency Report for the financial year ended 30 September 2019, in accordance with “The Collective Management https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-2020-collective-rights-management-working-group-meeting https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-2020-collective-rights-management-working-group-meeting Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:10:34 GMT We would like to inform our artists, shareholders, associates, rights holders, partners and other interested parties that we will be attending the Collective Rights Management Working Group Meeting for CMOs on 22 April 2020. The IPO has put in place the measures needed to protect everyone attending from COVID-19 infection. The agenda for the day, https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-ltd-announcement-regarding-the-coronavirus-pandemic https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-ltd-announcement-regarding-the-coronavirus-pandemic Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:46:05 GMT As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, we want to set out the steps RadioPro Ltd has taken as an organisation to maintain support for our music users, our artists and our staff. Preparedness – As a collective management organisation, we have followed COVID-19 closely since the early stages of the outbreak. That has https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-27-march-2020 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-27-march-2020 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:23:53 GMT Dear friends, Our Special General Meeting will take place at 7pm on Friday 27 March 2020. The purpose of the meeting is to complete the changes to our Constitution so that it reflects the requirements of “The Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016” more closely. Notice of the Special General Meeting of RadioPro https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-17-december-2019 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-17-december-2019 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:35:32 GMT Dear friends, Our Special General Meeting will take place at 7pm on Tuesday 17 December 2019. The purpose of the meeting is to decide on an increase in our share capital, so that we can admit 52 new rights holders who have already applied for membership, and prepare for further membership applications in January 2020. https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/fantastic-news-from-italy https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/fantastic-news-from-italy Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:06:20 GMT Since 23 October 2019, RadioPro Ltd has been operating legally as a Collective Management Organisation (CMO) in Italy, offering its services to music users there. If you need a distinctive repertoire managed by a single organisation, covering both copyright and rights related to copyright, please get in touch. Play our repertoire on its own and https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-is-in-stockholm https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/radiopro-is-in-stockholm Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:08:40 GMT An excellent weekend has come to an end – time spent with colleagues, fine musicians and creative artists. Thank you all for the chance to work together on improving the music industry. https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/board-meeting-in-london-uk-oct-4-2019 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/board-meeting-in-london-uk-oct-4-2019 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:02:46 GMT Our first board meeting in London was a success, following the move of our registered office from Manchester to London. The RadioPro Ltd Board of Directors decided unanimously to offer our CMO services in Italy as well. Our thanks go to our Italian adviser, Mr Mario Cascavilla, and to the Italian Communications Authority for preparing https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-radiopro-ltd-annual-summit-manchester-1-3-may-2020 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-radiopro-ltd-annual-summit-manchester-1-3-may-2020 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:50:40 GMT The Annual Summit of the new Collective Management Organisation (CMO) RadioPro Ltd will be held from 1 to 3 May 2020 in Manchester. The global music industry is at a defining moment. Digital technology is changing quickly, music reaches listeners in new ways every year, and collecting copyright revenue has become harder in a European https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-official-radiopro-ltd-presentation-is-online https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-official-radiopro-ltd-presentation-is-online Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:20:29 GMT You can now watch the official presentation of our organisation on Vimeo. In this short film we set out the services RadioPro Ltd provides to its members and to the independent artists who have entrusted us with their copyrights in the EU. https://vimeo.com/353251615 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/new-radiopro-logo https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/new-radiopro-logo Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:51:02 GMT Our new RadioPro logo is finished, and it will start appearing on all our official correspondence shortly. Our thanks to the members of the subcommittee who oversaw the design and delivered it in vector format. https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/new-website-will-be-ready-monday-12-8-2019 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/new-website-will-be-ready-monday-12-8-2019 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:54:59 GMT The official website of the Collective Management Organisation (CMO) RadioPro Ltd will be ready on Monday 12 August 2019. If you come across a page showing an error message, please reload it, and do let us know if any part of the website is giving you trouble. Please bear with us. This is a significant https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-radiopro-phone-network-is-now-activated https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-radiopro-phone-network-is-now-activated Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:42:25 GMT We would like to let visitors to our website know that our phone network is now up and running, so that members and associated rights holders can call us for information or to arrange a meeting. We have had a telephone number for some time, but we have now activated a full phone network with https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/unanimous-decision-radiopro-will-become-a-cmo https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/unanimous-decision-radiopro-will-become-a-cmo Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:02:22 GMT Dear friends, Our Special General Meeting took place at 7pm on Thursday 11 April 2019. The purpose of the meeting was to consider the proposal put forward by the majority of the artists working with our IME: that we form a Collective Management Organisation (CMO). The decision was unanimous, and we will now ask the https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/automated-royalty-distribution-platform-radiopro-ardp https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/automated-royalty-distribution-platform-radiopro-ardp Sat, 30 Mar 2019 22:15:12 GMT Dear friends, Over the coming weeks our team will be moving your accounts across to our automated royalty distribution platform (RadioPro ARDP). The new accounting platform takes information from our music providers worldwide and feeds in both the number of times your tracks have been broadcast and the value of each broadcast. Statistics from our https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-special-radiopro-ltd-general-meeting https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/the-special-radiopro-ltd-general-meeting Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:38:50 GMT Dear friends, Our Special General Meeting will be held at 7pm on Thursday 11 April 2019, in accordance with our Articles of Incorporation. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the proposal put forward by the majority of the artists working with our IME: that we become a Collective Management Organisation (CMO). If that https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-15-march-2019 https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/special-general-meeting-15-march-2019 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:00:06 GMT Dear Members, Notice is hereby given that a Special General Meeting (SGM) of RadioPro Ltd will be held on Friday 15 March 2019, commencing at 12:30pm. The meeting will take place at Piccadilly Business Centre, Aldow Enterprise Park, Blackett Street, Manchester M12 6AE for members who wish to attend in person. Afterwards, members are invited https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/meet-your-radiopro-team https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/meet-your-radiopro-team Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:00:34 GMT Dear friends, We are pleased to announce our first annual company meeting for all the artists who have entrusted us with their music: the first official RadioPro Musician Gathering 2019. It will be held on Monday 25 February 2019 by teleconference. If you would like to meet the team behind the RadioPro IME, send us https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/airplay-monitoring-offered-to-all-our-artists https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/airplay-monitoring-offered-to-all-our-artists Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:02:14 GMT Dear friends, It is an exciting time here at RadioPro. Yesterday we launched our own monitoring service, currently in beta, which lets us monitor airplay on selected radio stations across the European Union. If your music is featured on a radio station, send us the name and the stream URL through our contact form and https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/what-if-radiopro-was-a-collective-management-organization-cmo https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/what-if-radiopro-was-a-collective-management-organization-cmo Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:59:09 GMT Dear friends, As you all know, we do not include our own music in the RadioPro repertoire. We have covered this before: to qualify as an Independent Management Entity, we have to meet the definition given in the second paragraph of Article 3 of the “DIRECTIVE 2014/26/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/where-is-our-music https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/where-is-our-music Sat, 01 Dec 2018 11:15:16 GMT Dear friends, Many of you have asked why we do not include our own music in the RadioPro repertoire. As most of you know from our conversations, everyone on our team is a musician, and all of us write music. The reason is a legal one. To qualify as an Independent Management Entity, we have https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/our-company-is-growing-every-single-day https://news.radiopromusic.co.uk/our-company-is-growing-every-single-day Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:13:24 GMT Dear friends, colleagues and artists, RadioPro Ltd has now built a repertoire in collaboration with more than ninety (90) artists from around the world, and we are grateful to every one of you. Our music submission tool (RoyaltyRev.com) accepts new tracks continuously, so the repertoire keeps growing. Our current deal with the music provider RadioPro