Tools for venues
Music licensing is deliberately hard to price and easy to get wrong. These answer the questions venues actually arrive with — what a letter means, whether what you already play is allowed, and what a licence would cost — without asking you to sign up or hand over an email.
I have had a letter about a music licence. What is this?
Music licence letter decoder
Plain-language read on who is contacting you, what they can and cannot do, and the three routes open to you.
Decode the letter12 countries · PPL PRS, GEMA, SACEM, SIAE, SGAE, ASCAP and more
Other questions venues arrive with
Am I allowed to play Spotify — or the radio — in my venue?
Two verdicts, not one: whether the provider’s own terms allow it, and whether your country’s societies still need paying.
Can I play this in my business?
12 countries
What would a music licence actually cost my venue?
Published tariff figures by venue type, with the collecting society's own examples and the date we checked them.
Music licence cost calculator
United Kingdom
Is the music in my venue the right speed?
Tap along to what is playing and see how the tempo lines up with each moment of your day, with the research behind the ranges.
Venue music tempo checker
Any country
En español
Written in Spanish.
¿Cuánto se paga a la SGAE por un bar o un comercio?
Tarifa por metros cuadrados del Libro de Tarifas SGAE 2026, con las tres tarifas que publica la SGAE y sin IVA.
These tools are general information, not legal advice. Licence figures are the collecting societies’ own published examples, dated on each page, and are not a quote. If you want music that does not need a PPL PRS licence at all, see what Sonosfera costs.