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Payment Calendar

The distribution calendar is updated once a year. In the calendar, you can see from which sources royalties are collected and in which distribution they are paid to music authors and publishers.

  • In the top part of the image, you can see the royalties that we pay four times a year.
  • In the bottom part of the image, you can see the royalties that we pay once a year on the distribution date in question.

Distribution year 2025

The payment calendar shows:

  • when distributions are made
  • from which sources royalties are collected
  • for which time period royalties are collected

Royalties from some sources are distributed only once or twice per year, others in every distribution.

Distribution on 13 March 2025

For 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2024

  • Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
  • Background music
  • Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
  • TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
  • Online and streaming services

Also:

  • Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 31 December 2024
  • Adjustments 03/2022–12/2024

Distribution on 12 June 2025

For 1 October 2024 to 31 December 2024

  • Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
  • Background music
  • Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
  • TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
  • Online and streaming services

For 2024:

  • Orchestra concerts: Philharmonic orchestras, Yle RSO, Music Institutes, Concervatoires, Sibelius Academy, Garrisons
  • Live music in restaurants and other events
  • Music used in municipal and parish events
  • Background music, concerts and live events, background music services
  • Internet PVR-services
  • Cinema, stage music
  • Yle reproduction and cinema copies
  • Also:
  • Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before  31 March 2025
  • Mechanical reproduction royalties collected before 31 December 2024
  • Balancing distribution for 2024: TV, Radio, Concerts, Background music, radio
  • Subsidy for the promotion of Finnish music for 2024
  • Adjustments 06/2022–03/2025

Distribution on 11 September 2025

For 1 January 2025 to 31 March 2025

  • Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
  • Background music
  • Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
  • TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
  • Online and streaming services

For 2024:

  • Compensation for Private copying
  • Online: Video on Demand
  • Also:
  • Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 30 June 2025
  • Adjustments 09/2022–06/2025

Distribution on 11 December 2025

For 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025

  • Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
  • Background music
  • Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
  • TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
  • Online and streaming services

For 2024:

  • Remuneration for Public Lending

Also:

  • Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 30 September 2025
  • Mechanical reproduction royalties collected before 30 June 2025
  • Adjustments 12/2022–09/2025

What are adjustments?

Adjustments consist of e.g. royalties accrued for previously unconfirmed works and corrections made in response to resolved disputes and complaints.

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