The recently-launched By Design's roster includes Frankie Ballard. By Jessica Nicholson Recently-launched music company By Design, co-founded and led by music execs Josh Bailey, Jeremy Holley, Rod ...

International production music company BMG Production Music (BMGPM) has acquired award-winning Los Angeles and London-based outfit Dynamic Music. The two companies started a global sub-publishing ...

The already-crowded music-catalog-acquisition business just got a formidable new player: Germany-based music company BMG and global investment firm KKR have announced they will join forces to pursue ...

FRANKFURT/TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp agreed to buy Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in their Sony BMG music joint venture for around $900 million, ending a four-year venture that never managed to beat ...

BMG is getting out of the live music business. The German music company agreed to sell its stakes in two live music companies, Undercover and Karo, to the minority shareholders, the company announced ...

KKR and music company BMG are teaming up to buy music catalogs. No financial terms were disclosed. Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to KKR on the deal. BERLIN & NEW YORK & GÜTERSLOH, ...

KKR & Co. Inc. and BMG have acquired the songwriting catalog of John Legend. The deal, disclosed in a regulatory filing, closed last fall and illustrates how red-hot the market for music investments ...

Powerhouse record company BMG Entertainment on Friday named a former journalist with no music background as its new chief executive. Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, 52, fills the position left vacant by BMG ...

BMG posted its strongest year of growth in 2022, with annual revenues of $911 million (up 30% over last year) and made more than $400 million worth of acquisitions in the booming catalog market, the ...

Music publisher and record label BMG has enlisted the help of Google Cloud to digitally transform and position its business so it is better placed to adapt to changing consumer habits. The ...

Licensing presents an attractive revenue option for song catalog owners. The two companies, which were connected from 2009-2013 when KKR held a majority stake in BMG, are pooling their expertise in a ...

The company, co-founded by reality TV producer John de Mol, owns songs from the likes of Tiesto and Afrojack and its writers have written songs for the likes of Pitbull, David Guetta and Will.i.am. By ...