Recordings

Imagine someone designed a record company from the artist’s perspective. We did just that.

As the first new global record label of the streaming age, BMG is based on the idea that we’re here to serve artists – not the other way around. Whether you’re on your 21st album or your very first track, BMG builds its services around you to help you achieve your objectives. BMG has been the pioneer in driving a new, fairer approach to artists, combining it with class-leading technology, global reach and an attention to detail few can match.

Where Artists Are In Control

The BMG Promise

Planning your release

It’s all in the plan. From territory to timing, from price to positioning to social media, press and promotion teams, our expert teams will deliver the right plan for you.

Product management and marketing

Call it mission control. Our in-house product management team has the expertise and experience to take your music to market, to make it work.

Tailor-made press and promotion

When it comes to press and promotion, we know it’s personal. That you need the people, the passion and the close industry relationships to take your music where it needs to go. So we help you choose the teams that are best for you.

Retail and sales marketing

Digital music services and traditional retailers play an essential role in helping you reach your audience. Because we’ve assembled an unrivalled network of some of the biggest names in the business, it means we can put your music exactly where it needs to be.

Maximizing your income

Synchronization licensing

75-strong our international synch team pitches, promotes and licenses your music for use in film, trailers, video games, commercials or web videos. The BMG synch machine - working for you.
Digital licensing

As arguably the only ‘digital native’ international music company, maximising your music’s many digital opportunities is key to what we do.

Deals that are fair

Choice & fairness

Whether a traditional royalty-based deal or a new-style artist services structure, BMG has the right option to suit your needs. But whatever the deal, one thing is non-negotiable – our commitment to fairness. It is in our DNA.

Transparency

All of our new contracts are designed to reveal, rather than obscure, to give you and your representatives the information you need with no unpleasant surprises. In a business in which historically “the clause giveth and the sub-clause taketh away” it’s an approach we think you’ll find refreshing.

WHERE EVERY ARTIST IS A FRONTLINE ARTIST

Great music lives forever. And our specialist international catalog team is a world leader in breathing new life into classic recordings. Whether through repack, reissue or compilation, we treat your music with the respect it deserves.

Best in class operations and administration

Label copy and digital asset management

Meticulous about digital asset management we use our best in class label copy and asset management system to securely store internationally compliant product metadata, label copy data, video, booklet, cover art, ISRCs and EANs (or UPCs). A single, safe digital data resource instantly sharable with digital distribution and project partners. We also register your recordings with relevant societies to ensure you receive performance income.

License clearing and accounting

We obtain and clear all mechanical licenses globally. We also handle all processing and the payment of mechanical royalties to publishers.

Digital and physical distribution

Our global network of manufacturing, distribution and licensing partners means that we’re perfectly placed to deliver the best distribution service for you.

Royalty accounting

Every day we collect vast amounts of sales and usage data from all over the world. It is checked, then double-checked so you get paid fully, accurately and on time.