Wise Music Group: independent music publishing for the 21st century

Wise Music Group has its roots 1930s New York, growing from being general purpose music retailers into a global group under the leadership of Robert Wise. His sons Tomas Wise (CEO, Wise Music USA) and Marcus Wise (Group Head of Media) are today fully involved in the business.

Throughout its long history the company has remained a family business at heart, flexible and ideally suited to responding to industry challenges both big and small. Trading under the name of MUsic Sales from the early 1970s

Wise Music Group at first operated in both print publishing and copyright acquisition with headquarters in London.

Today the group concentrates on its core strength: catalogue ownership and control. This acquisitions-driven program has rapidly flourished, and the group has acquired more classical and popular song catalogues, adding many exciting new names.

In total, Wise Music Group currently owns or controls some half a million copyrights.

Wise Music catalogues reflect a broad range of popular music encompassing, evergreen, jazz, reggae, blues and pop/rock songs from all territories.

Historically one of the group’s strengths has been its roster of ‘contemporary classical’ composers. This division has also been expanded so that today’s list of contracted composers is one of its strongest ever with over a hundred globally famous names.

Wise Music Group offers genuine international reach with active offices located in USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and Japan.