Music Behind Reality & Drama TV Worldwide - Songwriting Royalties

A car restoration series in France and Sweden. A documentary about lumberjacks in Poland’s Bieszczady mountains. A British psychological thriller airing across Scandinavia. This catalog of film & TV music earns wherever reality and drama television airs on broadcast TV or is streamed online. Over the last twelve months (LTM), it paid songwriting royalties from 101 countries, with 387 compositions earning royalties.

The music is written for television and placed by music libraries, led by West One Music and JW Media Music. TV and film performances generate 45% of LTM, foreign performing rights societies add 28%, and streaming adds 14%. 87% of LTM is earned outside the UK, led by France, Germany, Poland, and Canada.

Earnings are spread across the catalog. “Keep My Heart”, the top-earning song, accounts for 8% of LTM and the top five songs together for 29%. Long-running series return to the same music year after year: Wheeler Dealers alone paid $774 over the last twelve months across 12 compositions. LTM is softening about 16% against the prior twelve months, mostly from lower UK fitness class income on Solace, with TV and film down about 10%.

Placements keep paying as shows spread. “Keep My Heart” more than doubled in the last twelve months as The Ex-Wife, a Paramount+ thriller, reached new broadcasters, earning over $450 from five countries. When a show carrying one of the catalog’s 434 compositions reaches a new market, the music earns there too. Income already arrives from 101 countries, and no track tops 8% of LTM, so growth can come from any show, in any market, without the catalog depending on one. 

These songs are written for TV and used across drama, documentary, reality, travel, and lifestyle shows. They reach broadcasters through established production music libraries. West One Music, the library behind the catalog’s biggest earners, accounts for 57% of LTM, including Keep My Heart, Here Comes The Storm, Mudslide, Secret Service and Love Is.

JW Media Music, together with Beatbox Music in Australia, accounts for about 30% of LTM through tracks such as Beginning Of Time, The New Mystic, Dinobilly Stomp, City Beats and Dragons Backbone.

Solace, published by PXM Publishing, earns mostly from licensed public use in the UK, such as fitness classes and background music systems.

The shows are varied. Wheeler Dealers, Yukon For Sale, Aussie Gold Hunters and Outback Opal Hunters sit alongside the Polish documentary series Drwale i inne opowieści Bieszczadu and the drama The Ex-Wife. That mix of formats and countries gives the catalog a wide base of recurring TV income.

How This Investment Works. As the winning bidder, you will collect 100% of payments until you receive the fixed amount of $45,000 from this asset. 

Early Repayment. The seller of this asset can repay the remaining advance balance at any time.

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.