Psycho Teddy + Publisher + Songwriter Royalties

This asset is the songwriter's and publisher's share of "Psycho Teddy," a 2007 novelty dance-pop single from Australia built around a CGI teddy bear that flips between cute and unhinged. Released at the tail end of the ringtone-mascot era, it reached No. 5 on the ARIA singles chart in 2008, then faded for fifteen years.

An animation meme revival turned it back on. Creators on TikTok and YouTube rebuilt the old format with their own characters, using the beat drop where the teddy flips faces as the transformation cue. The song paid $114 across all of 2023. It has paid $12,759 since, and Spotify currently shows about 606,500 monthly listeners.

Every stream pays the song twice: a performance royalty for the public play, and a mechanical, paid when a song is streamed, downloaded, or sold physically. Both sides are collected independently today, through two payors. PRS covers performance across 160 countries, led by the United Kingdom and Germany at roughly 18% each, and paid $3,589 over the last twelve months against $3,376 the year before. The United States mechanical went uncollected entirely until September 2026, when the share was claimed for the first time and the Mechanical Licensing Collective paid out $5,652 that had accrued.

That payment is why the trailing year reads $9,240, and it is not a figure to annualize. This is one song, carried by a format that could cool. What sits against that is the collection itself: administration moves to Kobalt after the sale, and a global administrator is positioned to reach income these two payors have not.

"Psycho Teddy" (2007) is a novelty dance-pop track credited to a fictional cartoon character of the same name, released by Sony BMG as both a mobile ringtone and a single. It reached No. 5 on Australia's ARIA singles chart in 2008, faded, and returned to prominence in the 2020s as the sound behind a widely shared online animation-meme trend. The catalog holds the original recording plus several versions — a video mix, a remix, club and radio edits, and a German-language version.

Publishing Administrator Note. PRS and The MLC are the current administrators of the publisher's share of this catalog. After the sale, Kobalt will administer royalties for the publisher share on a quarterly basis. However, during the assignment process, some royalties may continue to flow from The MLC and will be payable to the buyer. The songwriter’s share of public performance royalties will remain at PRS.

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. 

Payments are represented in the financial bar charts of this listing based on the dates below.