The Beverly Hills-based Concord Bicycle Music publishing company announced Friday it has acquired the global independent music publishing and theatrical rights company Imagem Music Group.
Imagem Music Group is comprised of three distinct business units — Rodgers & Hammerstein, Imagem Music and Boosey & Hawkes.
Rodgers & Hammerstein has 5,000 copyrights including “The Sound of Music,” “The King and I” and “South Pacific.” It also represents such composers and their estates as Irving Berlin and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Imagem Music controls 175,000 copyrights, including songs written by Phil Collins and Genesis, Daft Punk, Pink Floyd, Linkin Park, Sammy Cahn, Iron Maiden, and Lionel Richie.
Boosey & Hawkes is the largest specialist classical publisher in the world, controlling 74,000 copyrights, including works by Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofieff, Richard Strauss, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, said Concord Bicycle Music CEO Scott Pascucci.
— City News Service