Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) is the largest music publisher in the world with offices in 41 countries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, UMPG is also the global leader in Classical, Christian and Production music.

UMPG has some of the most important contemporary songwriters and artists on its global roster, including:

3 Doors Down	30 Seconds to Mars
50 Cent	Christina Aguilera
The All-American Rejects	Anastacia
Backstreet Boys	Glen Ballard
Basement Jaxx	Beastie Boys
Mary J. Blige	Blink-182
Bon Jovi	Chemical Brothers
Chamillionaire	Ciara
Coldplay	Elvis Costello
The Cure	Gigi D'Alessio
The Darkness	Dashboard Confessional
Chris Daughtry	Diam's
DMX	Dolcenera
Gloria Estefan	Estopa
Eve	Everclear
Fatboy Slim	Franz Ferdinand
Fonky Family	Kirk Franklin
Robin and Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)	Godsmack
Dave Grohl	Fred Hammond
Hoobastank	Chad Hugo (The Neptunes)
Ja Rule	Jars of Clay
Elton John	Jack Johnson
Keane	R. Kelly
The Killers	Korn
Annie Lennox/Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)	Linkin Park
Ludacris	Maroon 5
Brian McKnight	Alanis Morissette
Musiq	Mutemath
Nas	Nelly
Ne-Yo	Pitbull
Powderfinger/Bernard Fanning	Daniel Powter
PUR	Prince
Rammstein	Sam Roberts
Rosenstolz	Antonella Ruggiero
Rivers Rutherford	Gustavo Santaolalla
The Sex Pistols	Silbermond
Paul Simon	Sinik
Britney Spears	Joss Stone
T-Pain	Bernie Taupin
Yann Tiersen	Justin Timberlake
U2	Paul Weller
Westlife	Robbie Williams
Wolfmother	Yellowcard
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In 2006 and 2007 to date, UMPG has celebrated a record amount of number one singles including: "Summer Love, "What Goes Around… Comes Around," "My Love" and "Sexyback" by Justin Timberlake; "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5; "Irreplaceable" by Beyonce; "It's Not Over" by Daughtry; "Don't Forget About Us" by Mariah Carey; "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire, feat. Krayzie Bone; "You're Beautiful" UMPG writer Sacha Skarbek, performed by James Blunt; "Check On It" UMPG Producer Swizz Beats, performed by Beyonce; "Save Me" UMPG Producer Tony Battaglia, performed by Shinedown; "Be Without You" by Mary J. Blige (remained the number one R&B track from January through early April); "Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi; "When I Get Where I'm Going" UMPG Writer Rivers Rutherford, performed by Brad Paisley; "What Hurts The Most" UMPG Writer Steve Robson, performed by Rascal Flatts; "Grillz" UMPG Writer Ali Jones, performed by UMPG writer Nelly; and many more.

UMPG's profile on the global music charts has been unprecedented in 2006 and 2007. Recent number one albums on which UMPG controls musical compositions include releases from R. Kelly - Double Up; T-Pain - Epiphany; Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long; Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight, Ne-Yo - Because of You; Daughtry - Daughtry; Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds; Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead; Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics; Robbie Williams - Rudebox; Take That - Beautiful World; Il Divo - Siempre; Rammstein - Voelkerball; Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere; Shakira - Oral Fixation Vol. 2; Keane - Under The Iron Sea; Tokio Hotel - Schrei; Silbermond - Laut Gedacht; James Blunt - Back To Bedlam; and Tim McGraw - Let It Go; Mary J. Blige - The Breakthrough; Jack Johnson - Curious George Soundtrack; Godsmack - IV; Prince - 3121; Rascal Flatts - My And My Gang; Heather Headley - In My Mind; and many more, in addition to 2005 global best selling albums such as Mariah Carey - Emancipation of Mimi; Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up; 2Pac - Loyal to the Game; 50 Cent - The Massacre; Beck - Guero; 3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days; U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb; Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand; and The Killers - Hot Fuss. On the album chart, UMPG recently controlled songs on all of the top five releases in The Netherlands, four of the top five in the U.S. and Australia, six of the top 10 in Germany and Italy, five of the top 10 in the U.K. and Belgium, and the entire top three in France.

In addition, UMPG boasts many classic singles such as: "I Will Survive" and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Perren/Fekaris; "You're Still The One" and "That Don't Impress Me Much" by Shania Twain; "Beautiful Day," "Pride (In The Name of Love)," and "Desire," by U2; "Stayin'Alive, "Jive Talking" and "How Deep Is Your Love" by The Bee Gees; "Magic Carpet Ride" by Moreve/Kay; "Born to be Wild" by Mars Bonfire; "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" by Kern/Hammerstein; "Blue Christmas" by Hayes/Johnson; "Strangers in the Night" by Kaemfert/Snyder/Singleton; "The Way You Look Tonight" by Kern/Fields; "Lady Sings The Blues" by Nichols/Holiday; "Candle In The Wind," "Your Song," and "Crocodile Rock," by Elton John and Bernie Taupin; "Girl From Ipanema" by Jobim/Demoraes/Gimbel; "I Love Being Here With You" by Lee/Schluger; "Stormy Weather" by Koehler/Arlen; "Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)" by Delanoe/Becaud/Sigman; "It's Impossible" by Manzanero/Wayne; "A Fistful of Dollars" by Morricone; "Milord" by Moustaki/Monnot; "Mon Homme (My Man)" by Charles/Willemetz/Yvain/Pollock; "Let It Be Me" by Delanoe/Becaud/Curtis; "Que reste-t-il de nos amour?" by Trenet; "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes" by Adams/Grever; and themes from the movies The Mummy II, Gladiator, E.T., The Pink Panther, Volver, The Constant Gardener, Amelie, and Jaws, among many others.

In 2007, UMPG acquired BMG Music Publishing, with over one million copyrights and the global leader in classical music, contemporary Christian music and production music. With 36 offices in 25 countries around the world, and a world-class roster of hitmakers including R. Kelly, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Coldplay, Nelly, Robbie Williams, Rammstein, Ne-Yo and Britney Spears, the acquisition catapulted UMPG to the world's number one music publisher. 80% of the company's revenue came from non Anglo-American repertoire and from non-pop areas such as production music, making UMPG the most diverse and 'international' of all music publishers.

Legendary UMPG catalogs include: the prestigious 60,000-title Rondor Music catalog, Interscope and Def Jam Music, All Nations Music, Charlie Daniels, Matraca Berg, Forerunner Music, Epitaph, Greenwich/Barry, Momentum Publishing, and John Philips. UMPG also owns or administers the works of Leonard Bernstein, Holland/Dozier/Holland, Henry Mancini, Paul Simon, Prince, Air Supply, B.B. King, Fleetwood Mac, Poison, Barry Manilow, Pete Townshend/The Who, Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen, Bobby McFerrin, Tom Waits, Joan Jett, Peggy Lee, KRS-ONE, A Tribe Called Quest, Santana, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Twisted Sister, Ric Ocasek/The Cars, Stone Roses, Miles Davis, Lucio Battisti (Italy), Gilbert Becaud (France), Marc Bolan/T Rex, Peter Cetera/Chicago, Alain Chamfort (France), Lucio Dalla (Italy), Die Toten Hosen (Germany), Bryan Ferry, JJ Goldman (France), Donny Hathaway, John Hiatt, John Lee Hooker, Peter Maffay (Germany), Modern Talking (Germany), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil), Tommy Nilsson, Eros Ramazzotti (Italy), Boz Scaggs, Alain Souchon (France), Toquinho (Brazil) and Jack White (Germany) and the scores of such prestigious musicals as Andrew Lloyd Webber's sensation, Phantom of the Opera.

FILM AND TV
UMPG has moved aggressively into film and television music. In film, UMPG's successes include songs in hit motion pictures and soundtracks such as Shrek The Third, Transformers, Dreamgirls, Ratatouille, Knocked Up, Evan Almighty, Pursuit of Happyness, Borat, Babel, Invincible, Happy Feet, Volver, The Devil Wears Prada, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Click, Spiderman 3, Wild Hogs, Oceans 13, Stomp The Yard, Marie Antoinette, Open Season, World Trade Center, Cars, The Lake House, The Pink Panther, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Shark Tale, Collateral, Garden State, Kill Bill Vol. 2, 50 First Dates, Something's Gotta Give, L'auberge Espagnole, Goodbye Lenin!, Hable Con Ella and Der Tunnel, amongst others. In television, UMPG has placed songs across all major networks in hit television shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Brothers & Sisters, CSI, CSI Miami, Cold Case, Big Love, Entourage, My Name is Earl, One Tree Hill, Scrubs, Sopranos, Las Vegas, The Office, Lost, The Wire, American Idol, How I Met Your Mother, House, and many more.

UMPG also manages and administers many of the world's major film and television companies' music catalogues including the BBC, Universal Pictures, NBC Universal, USA Networks, Telemundo, Fremantle, Endemol, Gaumont, talkback Thames, Grundy-UFA, Teanworx, Tiger Aspect, Wall To Wall, DIC Entertainment, Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run), IMG TWI, Moonscoop, Jettone Films, Greenlight, TDF, Five, Hattrick, All 3 Media, Decode and Proseiben, and represents Famous Music's (Viacom) impressive catalogue of film and TV music in many countries.

WORLD'S LARGEST CLASSICAL MUSIC PUBLISHER
One of the global leaders in classical music publishing, UMPG's classical assets include the major catalogues Casa Ricordi (Italy), Editio Musica Budapest (EMB) Music Publishers Ltd. (Hungary), Éditions Durand (France), Éditions Salabert (France), Forberg Mannheimer (Germany) and Moeck (Germany). UMPG is a significant classical publisher of educational printed music in Europe.

The legendary Ricordi, a classical publishing house dating from 1808, is the publisher of master Italian composers Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Donizetti and Respighi as well as contemporary music composers Berio, Nono, Sciarrino, Battistelli and Francesconi. EMB Music Publishers Ltd. is the oldest music publisher in Hungary and represents copyrights by Bartok, Kurtag and Etvös. Germany's Forberg and Mannheimer catalogues include works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The renowned French classical publishing group Éditions Durand, Eschig and Amphion include copyrights from Ravel ('Bolero'), Saint-Saens, Debussy, Fauré, Messiaen, Milhaud and many important contemporary music composers including Fenelon, Hersant and Manoury. Éditions Salabert brought the company titles from Satie, Poulenc, Milhaud, Roussel and contemporary composers Honegger, Dusapin, Xenakis and Constant.

UMPG has a wealth of famous French and German operettas in its catalogue including La Belle de Cadiz (Francis Lopez), La Veuve Joyeuse (Franz Lehar), La Vie Parisienne (Jacques Offenbach), Au Pays du Sourire (Franz Lehar), Das Wirtshaus Im Spessart (Grothe), Der Vetter Aus Dingsda (Kunneke), Die Bajadere (Künneke), Der Zigeunerbaron (Strauss) and Pas Sur La Bouche (Maurice Yvain), which was recently adapted into a popular French film.

UMPG represents Boosey & Hawkes in France and Italy and, in select markets, other notable classical music publishers such as Music Sales, Universal Editions (UE) and Faber Music.

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL MUSIC
UMPG is a leader in the contemporary Christian/gospel sector through its ownership of Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing. Brentwood-Benson is also active in the important Praise & Worship market through its GreatWorshipSongs.com imprint.

With over 70,000 copyrights, Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing owns the world's largest Christian music publishing catalogue as well as the second largest evangelically-styled choral music catalog. Its songs have been recorded by virtually every major singer in the Christian music industry as well as by such renowned artists as Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Ray Charles, Linda Ronstadt, Amy Grant, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Alicia Keys, Clay Aiken and Trace Adkins.

UMPG's assets in the contemporary Christian/gospel market also include the Lorenz Creative Services catalogues, Reunion Music (whose catalogue includes the Eric Clapton hit "Change The World"), the Sparrow catalogues (containing numerous legendary gospel classics) and RBI Entertainment.

The company's leading artists in the genre include Kirk Franklin, Jars of Clay, Fred Hammond, Joy Williams, Bebo Norman and Day of Fire. Brentwood-Benson also publishes songs recorded by Third Day, Michael W. Smith and Twila Paris.

THE GLOBAL LEADER IN PRODUCTION MUSIC
With a diverse and comprehensive portfolio of 4,500 CDs of UMPG-owned repertoire encompassing over 70,000 works from over (25) different libraries, UMPG is the top production music group in the world. The company's libraries include Chronic Trax, EVO, FirstCom, Killer Tracks, MasterSource, Network Music, OneMusic, and Universal Music Production Library from the U.S., Galerie and Koka Media from France, Atmosphere, Bruton, and Chappell from the U.K., Match Music from Sweden, UBM from Germany, RCAL from Italy, and Vitamin A from Australia. UMPG has production music library operations in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Scandinavia, South Africa, Australia, Spain and throughout Asia. Additionally, UMPG owns 50% of APM (Associated Production Music) in the U.S.

UMPG is a unit of Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company. For more information, visit: www.umusicpub.com.