Zomba Production Music is a production music distributor founded in 1996 by Zomba Music. It offered Zomba-owned Bruton, Chappell and FirstCom under one roof, and therefore was considered as the first of so called super-libraries [1].
The company was based in the UK, with additional branches in Netherlands, Scandinavia and Australia (covering also New Zealand and South East Asia). Since September 1995, Zomba also operated the joint venture with its future owner BMG called BMG Zomba Music Libraries OHG. In North America, virtually all of Zomba labels were distributed by Zomba-owned FirstCom Music, while Bruton was represented instead by Associated Production Music (which Zomba co-owned with EMI).
In 1999, the company acquired L'Illustration Musicale (who at that point already distributed Zomba's libraries in France) which consequently became French branch of ZPM. In the following year, Zomba acquired Musique Cinema Television which was used as the basis for Zomba's library Galerie. The aforementioned catalog was officially launched in March 2001 at the London Production Show.
On September 4, 2001, Zomba acquried Bluey Tunes Productions Ltd., the parent company of Connect Music.
In March 2001, it was announced that Zomba PM, along with KPM Music, Music House, Kosinus and Extreme Music would take part in development of Play Music Finder, which was based on KPM's online music plaform.[2] The site officially went live in April 2002 on NAB 2002[3]
In June 2002, it was announced that ZPM's parent company Zomba Group would be acquired by BMG Music[4] (who already distributed Zomba's production music libraries in Italy and Spain[5] and South Africa) with acquisition completed in November of the same year.[6]
In 2003, BMG folded Zomba Production Music unit into its own unit to form BMG Zomba Production Music. Consequently, ex-Zomba's libraries left EMI's Play system on January 2005 [7][8].
Labels[]
- List of libraries distributed by Zomba Production Music
References[]
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20020601114520/zpm.co.uk/whoweare.htm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20020626203457/http://www.kpm.co.uk:80/main/static/news/press_release.htm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20030407165246fw_/http://www.kpm.co.uk/main/static/news/nab_playlaunch.htm
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/business/bmg-to-buy-rest-of-zomba-the-home-of-pop-stars.html
- ↑ https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m2883_en.pdf
- ↑ https://idobi.com/news/bmg-completes-274b-purchase-of-jivezomba/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20050108041606/http://www.playzpm.co.uk:80/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090106001206fw_/http://www.mmgmusic.com/news/2005-01/2005-01-eng.htm