Publishing

What we offer

ADDING THE VALUE YOU WANT

BMG’s partnership approach begins with establishing your objectives as a songwriter. You simply want the most efficient admin service? You got it. Your priority is synch? You got it. You want day-to-day creative support in securing writing opportunities? You got it. In the BMG world there are no cookie cutter solutions. At BMG we put songwriters centerstage and build our services around you.

GLOBAL COVERAGE OF DIGITAL SERVICES

BMG has the resources, the technology, and the global reach to meet the challenge of maximizing licensing not just of music services, but video, games and fitness apps too.

Home of Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll

BMG represents many of the crown jewels of music publishing including works by two Beatles (George Harrison and Ringo Starr) with an interest in a third (John Lennon), three Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood), Ray Davies of The Kinks, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly and more.

Home of Iconic Publishing Catalogues

BMG is the proud representative of many of the greatest publishing catalogues in music including Bug, Cherry Lane, Chrysalis, Virgin, Talpa Music, as well as thousands of songwriters. 

Home of Streaming’s Greatest Hits

BMG is home to songwriters responsible for around one quarter of the songs on Spotify’s ‘Billions Club’, the playlist of more than 600 songs which have generated more than one billion plays each on the platform.

These include global hits such as ‘Shape Of You’, ‘One Dance’, ‘Lucid Dreams’, ‘rockstar’ and ‘Uptown Funk’ for performers including The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Major Lazer, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Eminem and Adele.

THE TECHNOLOGY TO DELIVER

Collecting and processing billions of lines of income for our clients down to every cent is the beating heart of BMG’s rights management operations. And for that we have a highly scalable, smart, and audit compliant platform of applications.

With no legacy systems, BMG has built from scratch a global technology platform, designed for the streaming age. Built on cloud technology, it powers a seamless suite of modules covering everything from contract management, song delivery, copyright registration to licensing, royalty processing, income tracking and client services.

Our Smart Match system utilizes advanced algorithms to compare any unmatched songs against our database, further boosting income to writers.

24/7 SERVICE WITH MYBMG

More than just a royalties app, myBMG provides 24/7 access to a range of BMG services from accessing co-writing opportunities to approving synchs to enrolling for discounts on a range of creator tools. Naturally you can access up-to-the-minute royalty information too.

FIGHTING FOR SONGWRITERS

Streaming is the biggest opportunity and biggest challenge songwriters have ever faced. BMG is the only major publisher to publicly call for a rebalancing of streaming revenues towards songwriters. On the basis that actions speak louder than words, we are doing all we can to help songwriters through these tough times:

  • In 2020 our US records business became the first major label worldwide to abandon the so-called controlled composition deduction, a mechanism labels have historically used to depress songwriter royalties by around 25%.
     
  • In 2021 we announced we would pay many songwriters in our acquired catalogues 30 days earlier than we are contractually obliged to in an attempt to bring those on historic contracts up to contemporary standards.
     
  • In 2022 we fully migrate to FastTrack royalty processing, further improving the speed and accuracy of royalty payments for our songwriters and artists.

BMG has led the debate about justice for songwriters and artists. With BMG you can be confident of having a partner who really is on your side.