Associated Production Music, LLC (commonly known as APM Music) is an American
production music
Production music (also known as stock music or library music) is recorded music that can be music licensing, licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media. Often, the music is produced and owned by production music libra ...
company headquartered in
Hollywood
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* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
Hollywood may also refer to:
Places United States
* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
* Hollywood ...
,
California
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, a joint venture between
Sony Music Publishing and
Universal Music Publishing Group. APM Music's catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks
and its libraries include
KPM Music,
Bruton Music,
Sonoton, NFL Music Library, Cezame,
Selected Sound, Kosinus,
AV Music Publishers,
AXS Music,
Cinemusic,
Berry Music,
Themes International,
Castle Music, and among others Music tracks from APM Music are used in TV shows, including ''
Dumbo
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'', ''
Us'', ''
Green Book'' and ''
A Star Is Born'';
and video games, including ''
Skylanders: Imaginators'', ''
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare'', ''
Fallout 4'', ''
The Godfather II'', ''
Red Dead Revolver'', ''
Saints Row 2
''Saints Row 2'' is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the sequel to 2006's '' Saints Row'' and the second installment in the ''Saints Row'' series. The game was released in October 2008 for the Pla ...
'', ''
Saints Row IV'', and ''
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
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.'' They were also used in various
Motorola
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phones as ringtones.
NFL Films
NFL Productions, LLC, doing business as NFL Films, is the film and television production company of the National Football League. It produces advertisement film, commercials, television programs, feature films, and documentary film, documentaries ...
has a joint venture between the NFL and APM Music where music is composed for NFL-related media. The APM catalog includes recordings dating back to 1900, music representing 192 countries, and well-known tracks like "
Heavy Action" (the theme for ''
Monday Night Football
''Monday Night Football'' (often abbreviated as ''MNF'') is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that air on Monday nights. It originally ran on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from 1970 NFL season, 1970 t ...
''), "The Big One" (the theme for ''
The People's Court
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''), and "Sweet Victory" (from the ''
SpongeBob SquarePants
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'' episode "
Band Geeks").
History
APM Music came to be in 1983 as a joint venture between
Zomba/Jive Production Music and
EMI Production Music (which now are owned by Universal and Sony, respectively). Sam Trust, former head of
ATV, founded APM as a joint-venture between what is now held by Universal (which owns the Kosinus and
Bruton
Bruton ( ) is a small market town, and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the River Brue and the A359 between Frome and Yeovil. It is south-east of Shepton Mallet, just south of Snakelake Hill and Coombe Hill, north-west of Gillingham ...
library) and Sony (which owns
KPM).
The company was primarily set up to distribute third-party music libraries. Its core business revolves around curation and guiding, where most music is specifically conditioned to fill a market need. Instrumental to such curation is a dedicated team of expert Music Directors with whom clients consistently partner for creative collaboration.
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Notable composers
Some notable composers who have worked with APM Music include:
See also
* Trailer music
* EMI Production Music
References
External links
*
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Music companies of the United States
Joint ventures
EMI
Universal Music Group
Sony Music Publishing
Production music