Market
The production music market is dominated by libraries affiliated with the large record and publishing companies: KPM is owned by EMI; Universal Music Publishing Group library music has the music libraries Chappell, Bruton and Atmosphere under their own name as well as others owned by them such as FirstCom and Killer Tracks; Imagem Production Music (formerly Boosey & Hawkes Production Music and including the Cavendish, Abaco and Strip Sounds labels) is owned by the Imagem Music Group; Extreme Music is owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing; and Warner/Chappell (a division of Warner Music Group) owns Warner/Chappell Production Music. Established in 1965 Sonoton is the largest independent production music library in the world. There are numerous smaller libraries.
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