BMG Rights Management

BMG Rights Management GmbH (also known simply as BMG) is a German-American music company, with its corporate headquarters based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, located within its BMG Rights Management (US) LLC arm, while its operational headquarters are in Berlin, Germany, located within its now-former main headquarters & newly-declared European headquarters. It combines the activities of a music publisher and a record label. BMG was originally founded in Germany in 1985 and relaunched in October 2008 after Bertelsmann sold its stake in Sony BMG to Sony. From 2009 to 2013, the investment firm KKR held 51% of the company, which became one of the world's largest music publishers during that time. BMG is 67% owned by Bertelsmann and 33% by Great Mountain Partners following the merger with Concord.

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