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Companies in the Music Industry

The major companies in the Berlin music industry:

Universal Music
MTV Headquarter
Sony Music Entertainment
DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG
Bechstein
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Neumann Mikrophone
BMG Rights Management


The music industry as a driver of the economy

  • The Berlin music industry generated sales in excess of EUR 946,5 million in 2009
  • 13,800 Berliners were working in the music industry in 2008
  • 1,820 music-industry companies are based in Berlin. The number of companies has grown by 48% since 2000.

Berlin's music service providers

  • 151 publishers
  • Approx. 70 recording studios
  • More than 100 artistic directors and concert agencies
  • 20 well-known producers
  • 10 internationally-operating concert organizers and nearly 130 national special event and promotion agencies and concert organizers.
  • 140 event management and special events equipment firms
  • 20 printing and film laboratories, packagers and merchandisers
  • Numerous ticket agencies and promoters

Labels, publishers and production companies

Universal Music
Sony BMG
EMI Music: Division Virgin / Labels / Mute

Apart from the major labels, more than 600 independent labels are active in Berlin. These include:
Asphalt Tango, Bungalow, Buschfunk, Bpitch Control, City Slang, Crippled Dick Hot Wax, Duophon records, Flittchen, Four Music, Gigolo Records, hard:edged, Kanzleramt, !K7 Records, Low Spirit, Louisville, MFS, Ministry of Sound, Monika Enterprise, Motor Music, Piranha, Plak Music, R.O.T., Sonar Kollektiv Reords, Morr Musik, t3records, Traumton Records, Tresor, United One Records, Vandit Records, Zett-Records

(Source: Kurzinformation, SenWTF [Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research], 2010)

Weitere Links zum Thema

Funding and Support for Music in Berlin
http://www.berlin.de/sen/kultur/foerderung/musik/
German Music Industry Association
http://www.ifpi.de/
German Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Deutsche Phonoakademie)
http://www.deutsche-phono-akademie.de/
German Sounds - German Music Export Office (Deutsches Musik Export Büro)
http://germansounds.de
Association of Independent Recording Companies, Music Publishers and Music Producers (Verband unabhängiger Tonträgerunternehmen, Musikverlage und Musikproduzenten e.V. - VUT)
http://www.vut-online.de/
The Berlin Label Commission in the VUT association
http://www.labcom-berlin.de/
Clubcommission Berlin e.V.
http://www.clubcommission.de/
Berlin Office of the German Music Publishers' Association (Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband e.V.)
http://www.dmv-online.com/
GEMA collecting society for works of music – head office and Berlin branch
http://www.gema.de/
Society for the Collection of Public Performance Royalties for Performing Artists (GVL - Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH - GVL)
http://www.gvl.de
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