Music licensing for car dealerships: showrooms, workshops & groups

Car dealerships play music in customer showrooms and, often, in workshops and staff areas — usually across several branded sites. Because TheMusicLicence is assessed per site on audible area and usage, dealership groups can accumulate avoidable cost quickly.

Common dealership overcharges

• Workshop, parts and back-office areas counted as customer-audible space.
• Showroom audio classified under a higher usage category than background music.
• Licences left unchanged after a showroom refit, rebrand or site closure.
• No consistent review across the group, so the same error repeats at every branch.

The multi-site opportunity

For a group with several dealerships, correcting the audible-area basis and usage classification at each site — and recovering historic overpayments where available — can add up to a meaningful annual saving.

We’ll review your dealership invoices for free and tell you where you stand. No savings, no fee.

This guide is general information, not legal advice, and MLC is an independent consultancy — not affiliated with PPL PRS Ltd, PRS for Music or PPL.