Dave Stewart, award-winning, music hall of fame icon, and overall creative force joins PRS

Dave Stewart, the highly acclaimed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriter Hall of Fame, UK Music Hall of Fame, GRAMMY Award, Golden Globe Awards, multi-Brit Award and Ivor Novello Award winning musician, joins PRS for Music for worldwide music royalty collection.

Spanning four decades and with over 100 million album sales worldwide, Stewart’s career is highly decorated with a long list of prestigious accolades, including being the co-founder of Eurythmics, his world-famous duo with Annie Lennox.

Stewart is one the most respected and accomplished talents in popular music history, having produced albums and co-written songs with Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Daryl Hall, Mick Jagger, Damian Marley, Stevie Nicks, Sinead O’Connor, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Gwen Stefani, and many others. Stewart recently collaborated with Joss Stone on scoring West End musical, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and with Glen Ballard for Broadway hit Ghost the Musical, which will continue its global run in 2025.

Dave Stewart is the songwriter’s songwriter, constantly lifting the craft through his talent and genuine passion for supporting the creative community. We are honoured to have Dave join PRS and work alongside him as a real pioneer who is aligned with us to find new tech solutions that can transform the industry  and get more money to songwriters. We are pushing the gold-standard of what music royalty collection should be, growing the value of music rights internationally, so that music creation can thrive. Dave Stewart’s unparalleled wide-ranging repertoire will benefit from PRS’s stellar performance across any avenue he chooses to explore with his work.

 

I’m excited to partner with PRS for Music, a place that truly understands the evolving landscape of creativity. I’m continually pushing boundaries with my artistry, and I appreciate how PRS keeps pace with me as a creator. Their evolution in handling data and the robust support they offer is phenomenal. This partnership represents a further commitment to fostering a vibrant community of artists. Together, we can amplify the value of music and ensure that every song and songwriter gets fair transparent reporting and the recognition they deserve.

 

Stewart is currently working with Director Shekhar Kapur (What’s Love Got to Do With It?), on feature film musical, Ebony McQueen, a 1960s-early ’70s coming-of-age story inspired by Dave Stewart's teen years in the North East of England and the discs and soundtracks that sparked his journey to becoming a musician. The filming will begin in the spring and feature songs by Stewart and garlanded South Asian composer A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, Elizabeth: The Golden Age).

In addition, Dave penned unique award-winning short film titled, Who to Love, a collaboration between himself, Italian artists Mokadelic and acclaimed actress Greta Scarano, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2023. Stewart also owns the spirit brand, Poetry Vodka, and is heavily involved in several tech ventures including Songbits, a platform where anyone can purchase shares of the recording right in a song, TipArtists, a mobile app that allows fans to identify music and Salt, a music rights company.

Stewart joins a roster of world-class songwriters and composers whose rights PRS administers including Billie Eilish, Dave Grohl  , Finneas, the George Michael estate, Greta Van Fleet, Gwen Stefani and Of Monsters & Men.

Stewart joins a fast-growing community of talented global songwriters of 175,000 and growing.

PRS for Music is market-leading in both online administration rates and terrestrial scope and achieves the highest standard of royalty processing with a competitively low cost-to-income ratio, meaning more royalties are being paid out, and flowing faster to rightsholders, than ever before.

About PRS for Music

Here for music since 1914, PRS for Music is a world-leading music collective management organisation representing the rights of more than 175,000 talented songwriters, composers and music publishers. Redefining the global standard for music royalties, PRS for Music ensures songwriters and composers are paid whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. 

For 110 years it has grown and protected the rights of the music creator community, paying out royalties with more accuracy, transparency and speed. In 2023, PRS for Music paid out £943.6m in royalties and collected a record £1.08 billion in revenues. prsformusic.com