Use of music in TV shows tripled in the past five years

Use of music across major on-demand platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video has more than tripled (up 238%) in the past five years – from 145bn minutes in 2014 to 490bn minutes in 2018, figures by PRS (Performing Rights Society) for Music show. The Guardian reports has several examples - in 2012, the makers of 'Mad Men' paid the Beatles $250,000 for the use of 'Tomorrow Never Knows'; song 'To Build a Home' by the British electronic band the Cinematic Orchestra has been streamed almost 200m times on Spotify, after appearing in Netflix’s 'Orange is the New Black' and then again after being featured in NBC’s 'This Is Us'.