Big Brovaz, Stormzy + More Songwriter Royalties

More than twenty years after their first hit, Big Brovaz are still a working group, playing festivals and venues across the UK into the present day. Their early-2000s songs never went quiet, and that is the heart of this catalog. The music earns everywhere: on streaming services, on radio, in clubs and shops and other public spaces, on stage, and on television, in dozens of countries at once. 

There is real range behind the income. "New Flow," the group's debut single, reached number three in the UK and charted across Europe, and "Baby Boy," a later single from the same double-platinum 2002 album, went to number four in the UK and platinum in Australia. The songs hold a place on screen as well: "New Flow" appears in the 2004 film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which still streams and airs worldwide and on its own makes up roughly one of every seven dollars the catalog earned over the last twelve months, much of it from the United States and Brazil. Seven markets do most of the work: the UK is close to half of the last twelve months, followed by the United States, Australia, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Brazil, with a long tail of nearly eighty countries behind them. 

The recent trend reads as steadiness, with one caveat worth naming. Trailing earnings of about $4,344 sit just above the three-year average of roughly $3,886, but a single live booking is doing much of that lifting. Big Brovaz's 2023 set at the KISSTORY on Blackheath festival paid out about $1,215, more than a quarter of the last twelve months. Strip it out and the recurring base is closer to $3,100, modestly below the three-year average rather than above it. That is less a sign of weakness than a reminder of what the asset is: a slow, durable income stream that occasionally catches a lift from a big stage. For an investor, the case is durability: a Life of Rights interest in songs that have earned across borders for twenty years, kept alive by an act that still performs them.

Big Brovaz were one of the defining British hip-hop and R&B acts of the early 2000s. The London collective broke through with their 2002 debut album, Nu-Flow, which reached the UK top ten, was certified double platinum, and spun off four UK top-ten singles. More than two decades on, the group is still a going concern, performing at festivals and venues across the UK, which keeps these songs in active rotation rather than frozen in the past.

Two songs from that debut sit at the center of the catalog. "New Flow," the group's first single, reached number three in the UK and became a hit across Europe, and it found a second audience on screen in the 2004 film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, where it still reaches viewers worldwide. "Baby Boy," a later single from the same album, climbed to number four in the UK, went platinum in Australia, and charted in Ireland and New Zealand, with a video that playfully parodied the sitcom Friends. "Summertime," an album cut from the same 2002 record, rounds out the group's own contributions.

The catalog also includes two more recent UK tracks: Stormzy's "Rachael's Little Brother" (2019) and Bad Boy Chiller Crew's "Always Be My Baby Boy" (2022).

Exchange Rates. Royalties for this asset are reported by PRS in Great British Pounds (GBP). To calculate royalty payments in U.S. Dollars (USD), Royalty Exchange applies the average historical exchange rate for the distribution month (via X-rates.com).
Future royalties will be paid to Royalty Exchange in GBP converted to USD upon receipt, and then paid in USD to the winning investor. The receiving bank may increase the exchange rate by up to 2.5% as a transaction fee. 

Distribution Schedule. PRS distributes two types of distributions, labeled “main” and “mini”. Main distributions are made four times per year: April, July, October, and December. Mini distributions are paid monthly. Historically, these payments did not occur every month; starting in August of 2025, they are expected to occur every month. As the winning bidder, you'll be entitled to all main and mini distributions. 

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