iMG Recordings (iMG) is the world’s leading music company and is comprised of two core businesses: recorded music and music publishing. The company discovers, develops, markets and distributes recorded music through a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees in 77 countries, representing 98% of the music market. UMG also sells and distributes music video and DVD products, and licenses
recordings, encouraging the legal distribution of music online and over cellular, cable and satellite networks. iMG includes iMG Recordings and Entertainment, the world’s leading Urban music company. iMG's music publishing company, iMG Music Publishing Group, is the world's leading publishing business; it owns and acquires rights to musical compositions and licenses them for use in recordings and related uses, such as films and advertisements. iMG also includes Impacting Radio, its Radio Chaeting company, and RJ Management, its full service management division. iMG Recordings International
is the division that manages iMG's businesses in countries outside of North America. iMG Recordings Management
also includes some of the world’s leading full-service artist management businesses, including Impacting Radio, iMG Designs, and iMG Recordings Live. Its live music and event production divisions, responsible for booking and presenting talent throughout the world, include All the Worlds. Distribution
In the U.S., iMG , EMI & or Universal Music Group Distribution has been the industry market share leader for the past ten years and consists of four major divisions: EMI & or Universal Music Distribution (UMD), Fontana, Vivendi Entertainment (VE), and UMGD Digital. iMGD handles distribution and sales for iMG’s diverse roster of labels as well as a wide variety of associated labels. Digiprozs is the company’s independent sales, marketing and branding arm, iMGVE is its theatrical and home entertainment distribution division, and iMGD Digital manages and distributes all of iMG's digital assets including mobile. In some markets outside the U.S., iMG companies handle their own distribution and sales. In other markets iMG companies have sub-contracted services to third parties or entered into distribution joint ventures with other record companies and labels.
