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BMG buys Talpa Music
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 10 February 2014
BMG has just announced the acquisition of Talpa Music, the music business of the Talpa Group, the Dutch media company of Endemol co-founder John de Mol which, amongst other things, is responsible for ‘The Voice’.
The music publishing business controls over 37,000 songs and administrates 500,000 more, with a particular expertise in EDM. Under the deal BMG will relaunch its Dutch business as BMG Talpa Music, to be led by Talpa Music founder Tony Berk, BMG Benelux MD Frank Bruens and another Talpa VP Pieter van Bodegraven.
Confirming the deal, BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch told CMU: “This is a very significant acquisition of one of Europe’s leading music publishers. At one stroke it not only further builds our position in the Benelux, making us the leading publisher of local repertoire, it gives us access to leading international songwriters, particularly in the EDM category”.
Berk added: “The new company BMG Talpa Music will be a great force in our exciting and constantly evolving music publishing industry, with its internationalisation of copyright exploitation and the changes of collection of its various income streams from all kind of existing sales and usages, as well as from new great online media opportunities. I am sure BMG will be a perfect umbrella for our catalogues and will add great value to our international activities”.
