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APM Music

Logo: APM Music, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American production music company

Associated Production Music, LLC (commonly known as APM Music) is an American production music company headquartered in Hollywood, California, a joint venture between Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group. Its catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks, and its libraries include KPM Music, Bruton Music, Sonoton, Cezame, and Kosinus.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

  • Industrymusic industry1
  • HeadquartersHollywood1
  • Websiteapmmusic.com
  • Legal formprivately held company1

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Associated Production Music, LLC (commonly known as APM Music) is an American production music company headquartered in Hollywood, California, a joint venture between Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group. Its catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks, and its libraries include KPM Music, Bruton Music, Sonoton, Cezame, and Kosinus.2

The story

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 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 partner for creative collaboration.

From Wikipedia’s article on APM Music, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

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