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Build the setlist anyway
You already track what you played, with durations and running order. That is the report — you just have not exported it yet.
SetlistForge · Performance-rights reporting · United Kingdom
Your PRS live performance report, already three quarters written.
PRS for Music wants the works, the venue and who you were on the bill. Your setlist holds the first part; SetlistForge asks for the rest — member number, the venue's postcode (or its country for a show abroad), headliner or support — and prepares a PDF and a copy-ready list to work from.
PRS for Music
From "the gig is over" to "the report is prepared".
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Pick the society
The export knows which fields this one asks for and prompts you only for those. Nothing generic, nothing you have to look up twice.
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Fill the few extras
Anything the society needs that a setlist does not already hold. Songs missing required data are flagged before you export.
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Export and submit it yourself
You get a clean PDF to work from when you fill in the society's own form or portal. SetlistForge never submits on your behalf.
PRS for Music · United Kingdom
What this export asks you for
Everything else — titles, writers, durations, running order, date, venue — comes from the setlist you already built.
PRS member number
Your membership reference
Venue postcode
The UK postcode — or the country, for a show abroad
Headliner or support
Your position on the bill that night
What this is, and what it is not
This is a preparation aid. SetlistForge produces a formatted PDF of what you performed plus the fields this society asks for — it is not an official form, it is not a submission, and it does not talk to the society. You still file through their own portal or form. Every page of the export carries that in writing:
“Not an official PRS submission · Preparation helper · SetlistForge accepts no liability”
PDF: PRS Live Performance Report — Preparation Helper
SetlistForge is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by PRS for Music. Royalties go to the writers of the songs performed — you are paid only for songs you wrote, as a member.
FAQ
Questions
Does this submit the report to PRS?
No. It is a preparation aid — a PDF and a copy-ready list of the works and the details PRS asks for. You report through PRS for Music yourself.
Can I report a gig outside the UK?
Yes. For a show abroad you give the country instead of a UK postcode. Which performances PRS accepts is PRS's business.
I play the same venues often.
Then the postcode and member number stop being work after the first time. The per-gig effort is the setlist, which you were building anyway.
Other societies
SetlistForge prepares reports for 9 societies. If you are registered with more than one, they all read from the same setlist.
GEMA
Deutschland
SUISA
Schweiz
AKM
Österreich
ASCAP
United States
BMI
United States
SABAM
België / Belgique
SOCAN
Canada
Buma/Stemra
Nederland
PRS for Music
Prepare the report for the gig you already played.
Create a free Squaresmile account, unlock SetlistForge once, and turn the setlist you built anyway into the report this society wants.
€29 one-time · via Gumroad · not a subscription
