{"id":98216,"date":"2021-01-22T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98216"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:01:00","slug":"peermusic","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/peermusic\/","title":{"rendered":"peermusic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>peermusic is a global independent music publisher which operates over 30 offices worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The company owns or administers over a million copyrights, covering genres such as country, blues, jazz, pop, Latin, and rock\u2018n\u2019roll.<\/p>\n<p>A family-run company, peermusic was founded by Ralph S. Peer in 1928 as Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc., with headquarters in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>After Ralph S. Peer&#8217;s death in the early 1960s, peermusic was run by his wife Monique as CEO for the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Peer II then became CEO of peermusic, guiding the company through a period of global expansion and well into the streaming era.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, peermusic announced that Ralph Peer II had relinquished his role as CEO after 37 years, moving to a position as Executive Chair.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Megan Peer was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mary-megan-peer-named-as-new-chief-executive-officer-of-peermusic-as-ralph-peer-ii-shifts-to-executive-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> as the new CEO of peermusic, moving up from her prior role as Deputy CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1928, peermusic controls over a million copyrights globally today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31451,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98216","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}