LILY ALLEN'S 'THE FEAR' REVEALED AS MOST PLAYED SONG OF 2009 IN THE EXCLUSIVE PPL'S PEOPLE'S POP CHART

'CLAIR DE LUNE' TAKES THE TOP SPOT IN THE 2009 PPL'S PEOPLE'S CLASSICAL CHART

London, June 9th, 2010. Lily Allen's 'The Fear' has taken the top spot in The PPL's People's Pop Chart of 2009. The chart, revealed for the first time at the company's AGM on June 9th, is compiled uniquely by PPL, from radio airplay and public usage data.

'The Fear' was the first single released from Lily's second studio album 'It's Not Me, It's You' and spent four weeks at number one in February 2009. In a video message broadcast at the AGM, Lily told the audience, "Thank you very much to PPL for recognising The Fear as being the best."

The top ten most played pop songs of 2009 are:

Lily Allen - The Fear
James Morrison - Broken Strings
The Killers - Human
Beyonce Knowles - Halo
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Daniel Merriweather - Red
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
P!nk - Please Don't Leave Me
Pixie Lott - Moma Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)

PPL also revealed the most played classical tracks of 2009 with 'Clair De Lune' at number one. The piece was composed by Debussy and performed by the CSR Symphony Orchestra. Keith Clark was the conductor of the recording who thanked PPL, 'It's a great thrill and I am deeply honoured to be number one in The PPL's People's Classical Chart for 2009. It's great to know that Debussy's lovely music has been enjoyed by so many and I'd especially like to thank PPL for their work in logging all of those plays."

The top ten most played classical recordings of 2009 are:

Debussy - Clair De Lune (CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava with Keith Clark, Naxos)
Johann Strauss 11 - On The Beautiful Blue Danube (City of Prague Philimonic Orchestra, Paul Bateman)
Verdi - Ingemisco (From Requiem) (Luciano Pavarotti, La Scala Orchestra Milan, Riccardo Muti)
Barber - Nocturne (Eric Pakin)
Prokofiev - Dance Of The Knights (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel)
Karl Jenkins - Palladio (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Jenkins)
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On Greensleeves (Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Mariner)
Arvo Part - Fur Alina (Alexander Malter)
Adams - The Chairman Dances (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, John Adams)
Einaudi - Nefeli (Ludovico Einaudi)

"It is a testament to all these recordings that they appear in our charts. The pop songs are truly modern classics, instantly recognisable and a great representation of the British public's appetite in the past year", said PPL Chairman and CEO, Fran Nevrkla. "The classical entries show the diverse appeal of this genre with some entries finding renewed popularity through modern medium such as film and television. All pieces can rightfully claim to be the nation's favourites in 2009."

Both the pop and classical charts are compiled through PPL's unique music reporting system which is populated with music usage data provided from television stations, radio stations, some on demand services, dubbers and public performance sources.

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For further information please contact:

Jonathan Morrish, PPL 020 7534 1245 email: jonathan.morrish@ppluk.com.

Clare Goldie, PPL 0207 534 1121 email: clare.goldie@ppluk.com.

About PPL:

PPL is the music licensing company which, on behalf of 45,000 performers and 5,750 record companies, licenses the use of recorded music in the UK. This enables TV and radio stations, online streaming services and hundreds of thousands of shops, pubs and others using music in their business to obtain a licence comprising millions of recordings.

As a music industry service, the company does not retain any profit for itself. The costs of collecting, processing and distributing the licence fees are taken from the gross revenues that the company collects which are distributed and paid to all PPL's record company and performer members. These include featured artists as well as session musicians, ranging from orchestral players to percussionists and to singers (approximately 90% of whom earn less than £16k per year from their profession). There is no joining fee or administration charge and the company actively seeks members. The cost-to-revenue ratio has remained constant for three years despite increasing investment in technology.

In addition, the company collects international performance rights income for 80% of its members and this revenue stream is currently the fastest growing area of the company. PPL now has representation in 25 different countries around the world, which has resulted in 48 separate contracts with similar organisations, representing a further 4,000 overseas record companies and 21,000 performers for the collection of income generated by their respective rights in the UK.

PPL's role and remit increases year on year. The company receives details electronically on a weekly basis for an average of 6,500 new recordings. Once this data has been fed into PPL's databases, it is then passed on to PRS for Music for it to administer the relevant copying rights on behalf of the songwriters, composers and publishers. PPL also provides that data to the Official Charts Company for the purpose of the UK charts, and to the BPI and IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) to assist with their anti-piracy activities. PPL also uniquely provides the music usage data for the highly successful series 'The People's Chart' which is broadcast on Radio 2. PPL's other areas of operation include VPL, and PPL Video Store.

For further information please visit www.ppluk.com.