{"id":99077,"date":"2021-01-22T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=99077"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:50:59","slug":"ultra-music","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/ultra-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra Music is an electronic dance music- focused company that comprises Ultra Records, Ultra Publishing and <b>Empire Artist Management.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ultra also has a strategic alliance with Ultra Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The company was launched in New York City in 1995 by former Polygram and Virgin Records executive Patrick Moxey.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra\u2019s first release was the single <em>Lift Me Up<\/em>\u00a0by MK\u00a0featuring Claire Rivers in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s roster has featured the likes of Black Coffee, deadmau5, Benny Benassi, Calvin Harris, Kaskade, Wolfgang Gartner, Steve Aoki, The Bloody Beetroots, Lil Jon, Above &amp; Beyond, Ferry Corsten, Axwell, Alex Gaudino, Congorock, Adrian Lux, Alexandra Stan, TOKiMONSTA, DJ Muggs, Zeds Dead and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra Music\u2019s YouTube channel has reached over 25 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>Sony Music relationship<\/h6>\n<p>In January 2013, Ultra Music and Sony Music Entertainment announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sony.com\/en_us\/SCA\/company-news\/press-releases\/sony-corporation-of-america\/2013\/ultra-music-and-sony-music-form-strategic-alliance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a global strategic relationship<\/a> covering A&amp;R, distribution, international repertoire and more.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Patrick Moxey was named President, Electronic Music, Sony Music Entertainment, reporting directly to Doug Morris, CEO, Sony Music Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra was launched by Patrick Moxey in 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31409,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-99077","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/99077","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\/99077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}