BMG
Music Service has been bringing people and music together
for over 50 years. Launched in the mid-1950s, the Club
was part of the RCA family of music until it was acquired
by Bertelsmann in 1987. The company is the largest direct-to-customer
distributor of music in the world and has millions of
members across its various genre-based music clubs.
BMG Music Service has delivered music directly to the
homes of customers for over half a century. From the
early days of vinyl to today's CD format, BMG Music
Service has helped members find music they want and
discover new music -- all at great prices and with great
convenience.
BMGMusic Club offers a wide variety of listening
choices including pop, rock, R&B, adult alternative,
easy listening, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, hip-hop,
country, Christian and many more. Members can choose
from thousands of titles -- produced by major music
companies as well as hundreds of independent labels
-- through BMG Music Service's member magazines or by
visiting our website.
For decades, our deep passion for music and our commitment
to service have made BMGMusicService the first choice
among serious music collectors and casual music lovers
alike. The company is proud to continue introducing
its members to a world of great artists and great music
at affordable prices.
BMG
Music Service .com is owned by Bertelsmann, which is
a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based
in Gütersloh, Germany. Corporate divisions are
the European broadcaster RTL Group, the Gruner und Jahr
(G+J) magazine publisher (biggest in Europe and second
biggest world wide), the Bertelsmann Music Group BMG
and book publishers Random House (popular literature),
as well as further subdivisions and trade marks.
As
of August 2004, a 50-50 merger between the music groups
of BMG and Sony has been completed, reducing the Big
Five of music companies to the Big Four. Sony BMG and
Universal control over 60% of the global music market.
BMG has just bought Columbia
House from Sony, a DVD and music
CD club. This move represents the coming together of
two great brands with complementary operational structures
and business models. BMG Direct is the largest direct
to consumer retailer of recorded music in the U.S. while
Columbia
House is the largest specialized
retailer of DVDs. The combined expertise of these two
leading direct marketing companies will create broader
product offerings for their members and a larger customer
base for both brands.
Based
in New York City, BMG Music Service and online music
retailer CDNow form BMG Direct which is a unit of DirectGroup
Bertelsmann. BMG Music Service is one of the world's
largest direct-to-customer retailers of music. In addition
to the BMG Music Service brand, the company operates
four different specialty clubs -- the BMG Classical
Music Club, the BMG Jazz Club, Sound & Spirit (Christian
and Gospel music), and Ritmo y Pasion (Latin music)
-- and offers a wide variety of listening choices including
pop, rock, R&B, adult alternative, easy listening,
jazz, blues, classical, Latin, hip-hop, country, Christian
and many more. Customers are offered a selection of
over 14,000 titles provided by the four major music
groups and over 100 independent record labels and can
shop for music directly from catalogues or online.
