APM Music
American production music company
Associated Production Music, LLC (commonly known as APM Music) is an American production music company headquartered in Hollywood, California, a joint venture between Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group. Its catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks, and its libraries include KPM Music, Bruton Music, Sonoton, Cezame, and Kosinus.
Tracks from APM Music have been used in TV shows and films including Dumbo, Us, SpongeBob SquarePants, Teacher's Pet, Green Book and A Star Is Born; and video games, including Skylanders: Imaginators, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Fallout 4, The Godfather II, Red Dead Revolver, Saints Row 2, Saints Row IV, and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands. They were also used in various Motorola phones as ringtones. NFL Films has a joint venture between the NFL and APM Music where music is composed for NFL-related media. The APM catalog includes recordings dating back to 1900, music representing 192 countries, and well-known tracks like "Heavy Action" (the theme for Monday Night Football), "The Big One" (the theme for The People's Court), and "Sweet Victory" (from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Band Geeks").
01History
APM Music came to be in 1983 as a joint venture between Zomba/Jive Production Music and EMI Production Music (which now are owned by Universal and Sony, respectively). Sam Trust, former head of ATV, founded APM as a joint venture between what is now held by Universal (which owns the Kosinus and Bruton library) and Sony (which owns KPM).
The company was primarily set up to distribute third-party music libraries. Its core business revolves around curation and guiding, where most music is specifically conditioned to fill a market need. Instrumental to such curation is a dedicated team of expert music directors with whom clients partner for creative collaboration.
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “APM Music”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- APM Music.svg by APM Music, Public domain
Fathomly is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Spotted a problem? Tell us.