{"id":100424,"date":"2021-01-25T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&p=100424"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:41:22","slug":"warner-chappell-music","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/access-industries\/warner-music-group\/warner-chappell-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Chappell Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warner Chappell Music is a major music publishing company owned by Warner Music Group.<\/p>\n

According to the Warner Music Group FY 2020 annual report<\/a>: “Warner Chappell Music, our global music publishing business, boasts an extraordinary catalog that includes timeless standards and contemporary hits, representing works by over 80,000 songwriters and composers, with a global collection of more than one million musical compositions.”<\/p>\n

Those composers include the likes of Twenty One Pilots, Green Day, Katy Perry, Lizzo, George Michael, Chris Stapleton, Dan + Shay, Tayla Parx and Stormzy, as well as songwriting icons such as Dr. Dre, Stephen Sondheim, George & Ira Gershwin and Gamble & Huff.<\/p>\n

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Warner Chappell Music’s origins and ownership<\/h6>\n

The world’s third biggest music publishing company by revenue, Warner Chappell Music’s origins began in 1811, when the UK publishing company Chappell & Co was founded.<\/p>\n

Over the next two centuries, Chappell & Co became one of the world’s largest music publishing companies.<\/p>\n

Warner Chappell Music (then Warner\/Chappell Music) was officially formed in 1987 when Warner Music Group acquired Chappell & Co from PolyGram in a $275 million deal.<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1990, Warner Chappell Music, as part of Warner Music Group, became a subsidiary of Time Warner. Warner Music Group was then sold to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. for $2.6bn in February 2004.<\/a><\/p>\n

Access Industries acquired Warner Music Group, inclusive of Warner Chappell, in May 2011 for $3.3 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Warner Chappell Music financials<\/h6>\n

According to Warner Music Group’s annual fiscal report, Warner Chappell Music generated $657 million in the 12 months to end of September 2020.<\/p>\n

That figure was up 2% year-on-year.<\/p>\n

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Warner Chappell Music: Change of branding and leadership<\/h6>\n

In April 2019, it was officially announced that Guy Moot would be taking over leadership of Warner Chappell as CEO and co-Chairman.<\/p>\n

He joined Carianne Marshall, Warner Chappell’s Co-Chair & Chief Operating Officer since January 2019.<\/p>\n

Moot and Marshall jointly succeeded ex-Warner\/Chappell boss Jon Platt, who left the publisher to become CEO and Chairman of Sony\/ATV.<\/a><\/p>\n

In May 2019, Warner officially announced that Warner\/Chappell was rebranding to Warner Chappell Music, with a new logo and brand identity.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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