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Most everyone loves music, but who looks after musicians? BMG does. Our radical service-based approach is to design a music company from the artist and songwriter’s perspective. We’re here to help artists be the best they can be – and maximize their earnings from the music they create.
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.
BMG is an integrated music publishing and recordings business and the world’s fourth-largest international music company. BMG’s distinctive pitch is a relentless focus on global service to its artist and songwriter clients, combining creative insight and support with the best in technology and analytics.
BMG is a new kind of music company. Our mission is clear; to help artists and songwriters make the very most of their songs and recordings in the digital age.
Jun 7, 2022 · In its latest market analysis, the U.S. trade magazine Billboard concludes that BMG is the fourth-largest music company in the world, after the three majors Universal, Sony and Warner. In the U.S. alone, BMG is bigger than the well-known labels Epic, 300 Entertainment, and Arista put together.
Bertelsmann acquired Arista Records in 1979 and RCA Records in 1985, thereby becoming one of the world's largest music companies. Its various subsidiaries were brought together in 1987 to form Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), which did business in a number of genres, including folk, pop, and in particular classical music.
In early 2017, Bertelsmann-owned BMG made its largest recorded music acquisition to date, when it bought Nashville-based Broken Bow Music Group (BBMG) for just over $100m. Since that Broken Bow acquisition, BMG has focused more on growing organically.
