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A New Corporate Giant BMG’s completed combination with Concord has created a major new force across music publishing, recordings, theatrical rights, film, television and digital distribution. The combined business now operates under the BMG name, bringing Concord’s vast theatrical licensing operation into a larger global company controlled primarily by Bertelsmann. ... Read More »

A side-by-side survey of the theater industry’s three dominant licensing houses — Music Theatre International, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and Concord Theatricals — produces a clear ranking, and Concord, despite controlling the largest catalog of the three, comes in last. Now that BMG’s roughly $14 billion acquisition folds Concord into a ... Read More »

The irony is brutal: Concord Theatricals, a cabal?like operation that licenses plays and musicals almost entirely created by men, now sells itself as the woke, feminist savior of the stage. In reality, it’s a corporate branding exercise run by music?industry outsiders, backed by a global merger with BMG Rights Management, ... Read More »