Music industry firms

The sector's top companies are all in Berlin:

The Music Industry as an Economic Factor
  • The Berlin music industry generated sales in excess of EUR 946,5 million in 2009
  • In 2008 the local music industry employs approximately 13,800 people
  • 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

(Source: Kurzinformation, SenWTF [Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Women’s Affairs], 2010)
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Business Location Center Music Portal
The Business Location Center Music Portal contains a list of music-industry firms in Berlin.
Music promotion in Berlin
The Federal Phonographic Industry Association and the German national IFPI association
The German Phonographic Academy
German Sounds: German music export bureau
The German Association of Independent Labels, Publishers and Producers (VUT)
Label Commission Berlin at the VUT
Clubcommission Berlin
German Music Publishers' Association (DMV), Berlin offices
The German Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights Society (GEMA), Head office Berlin
The Society for the Exploitation of Copyright (GVL)