NAXOS IN FACTS AND FIGURES
Naxos was launched in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born entrepreneur and classical music lover based in Hong Kong. Naxos releases around 300 new classical music recordings per year that are recorded in more than 30 different countries, and are distributed in over 60 territories worldwide. The Naxos Group’s digital products include the Naxos Music Library, Naxos Spoken
Word Library and Naxos Video Library subscription services, as well as the ClassicsOnline download platform. Naxos – the music label
A catalogue of more than 7,000 titles. More than 7,000 different composers are represented on Naxos-owned labels. The bestselling Naxos CD is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with violinist Takako Nishizaki with more than 1.5 million copies sold. The Naxos American Classics series, dedicated to American composers: 397 CDs and growing.
19 GRAMMY© Awards and 1 Latin GRAMMY. More than 150 Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards (Including 7 Recording of the Month designations). More than 800 Naxos CDs have been given a three-star rating by the Penguin Guide to Music. Repertoire initiatives in 2011: Italian 20th century composer series, Sarasate violin music series, Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition, Sibelius Symphonies with Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, Shostakovich Symphony series with Vasily Petrenko, launch of Naxos Canadian Classics, and much more.
2011 Educational initiative 1: Naxos first ipad app: My First Classical Music App., selected by the Sunday Times as one of top 2 children’s apps, January 2012.
2011 Educational initiative 2: 11 Naxos e-books about music, including versions with embedded audio. Hi-Res Audio initiative: 19 Blu-ray Audio releases so far with many more coming in 2012. Other owned labelsAltissimo!, Amadis, new Carpe Diem (Sweden), Capriccio (Digital rights only), Grand Piano, Linx, Marco Polo, Ondine, Prophone, Proprius, Romophone, Sittel, Swedish Society, Timpani, White Cloud (50% owned), Yellow River. A total catalogue of around 3000 titles. Naxos Books/Audiobooks
Naxos Audiobooks: more than 700 productions
Naxos Audiobooks Educational: 96 titles
Naxos Books now includes 19 print books, one iPad app (for My First Classical Music Book), and 11 e-books, with more apps and ebooks coming mid 2012. Naxos Books includes: Portuguese and Korean editions of the Life and Music series, Greek, Slovenian and Korean editions of Meet the Instruments of the Orchestra, and Finnish and Korean editions of My First Classical Music Book. The Audio Publishers Association (USA): 11 Audie Awards
“2005 Spoken Word Publisher of the Year” (UK)
Over 63 “The Earphones Award” from AudioFile Magazine 2007
Notable Children's Recordings award from Association for Library Service for Naxos Audiobook production of Lewis Carroll's “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”
Naxos streaming services
Naxos Music Library - revolutionary music education resource
Contains nearly 1,000,000 tracks of music from 70,000 albums. More than 39,000 composers are included (as of January 2012). More than 425 labels are included in the Naxos Music Library. Naxos Music Library Jazz: Over 65,000 tracks from more than 6,000 CDs, featuring over 12,000 jazz
artists from 170+ labels. Naxos has 22 musicologists on staff to create and enter data in the Naxos Music Library.
30 new albums are added to Naxos Music Library every day. More than 2,600 institutions subscribe to Naxos Music Library worldwide, including 1,200 in North America. In addition, 191 institutions subscribe to Naxos Spoken World Library, and an additional 406 subscribe to Naxos Music Library/Jazz. Over 15 million college students around the world have access to Naxos Music Library. iPad, Kindle Fire and Android Apps allow subscribers to enjoy Naxos Music Library anytime, anywhere. No computer necessary. ‘Naxos Music Library - Jazz and Naxos Spoken Word Library included in Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010. Naxos.com:
With visitor numbers between 360,000-400,000 per month, Naxos.com attracts more visits than any other classical label website. Popular classical music resource: offers a wealth of information, including almost 3,000 composer biographies, 8,000 artist biographies, a classical music glossary, more than 25,000 CD reviews, composer and artist interviews, studio reports, and much more. The site has around 17,000 classical albums, from Naxos and 40 independent labels, available for streaming against a small fee. Naxos Sales and Distribution
Providing global distribution for hundreds of other labels
The Naxos Group is headquartered in Hong Kong, with a significant back-office operation in Manila, Philippines. It has distribution subsidiaries in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Australia. Naxos also works closely with distributors that represent Naxos and its labels in over 50 additional territories. The distribution companies handle marketing and distribution of physical and digital products of Naxos own labels and also several hundred independent labels. The Naxos group employs over 300 people and has contracts with a number of freelance contributors. Naxos Global Logistics (NGL) is the Group’s global logistics and distribution centre based in Munich. Handling some 95 labels and 35,000 titles, NGL supplies products to more than 40 countries worldwide and also does the logistics and fulfillment (B2B and B2C) for several national and international distributors in territories such as Germany, France, and very soon for Spain. In 2011, NGL had about 1200 new releases across all the labels. Naxos of America provides distribution in the Americas for the various Naxos labels, plus more than 200 other CD and DVD labels. The Naxos warehouse in Franklin, Tennessee has more than 32,000 active titles. In 2011 Naxos of America released 2,570 new titles, including 317 new Naxos label releases, and 2,253 new distributed label releases. The Group’s main studio operation is in the UK, with manufacturing in Europe, North America and Hong Kong. Regional warehouses in Germany, Sweden, the United States and Hong Kong. Digital distribution and downloads
Naxos distributes its’ own and many other labels’ digital catalogues to all major DSPs/digital music retailers. Naxos's own download site, ClassicsOnline.com: More than a million tracks available for download from more than 57,000 albums. Naxos employs more than 70 full-time IT personnel, including programmers and software developers, for its digital platforms, digital distribution and data creation.
