I've been making some music with a friend on and off for many years, and we're about to release a vinyl single which should also be on iTunes. Even without any publicity as yet, a well-known Welsh radio DJ has twice played a track off our Soundcloud page, so once the single is officially out we're expecting a bit of radioplay (promo CDs and publicity are ready to go, courtesy of the label).

My friend/partner-in-crime has had solo releases over the years and is a member of PRS. He's registered the single tracks and the one (currently) on Soundcloud with both of our names as 50% composer/author. I also have my own solo side-project which may well arouse some interest once the single comes out, so I think I should join PRS myself in case that gets some radioplay as well (in fact, the same DJ played a couple of my tracks from a demo CD I sent him a few years ago).

My only foray into this kind of thing was about 20 years ago when a band I was in released a cassette. We signed up to PPL and later got a cheque (not much, but it was welcome!). I find the whole PRS/MCPS/PPL thing very confusing - can anybody offer any advice? I've had a bit of a read on the PRS website and I think I can join for £50 - is that right?

Any advice at all will be very welcome!

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