BMG earnings in the first half of 2025. Year: revenue of 8%

FExpected on his basic digital music job helped BMG to earn earn stable at lower income in the first half of 2025. years, the company reported Thursday (28. August). The company based in Berlin had revenue of 424m euros ($ 463 million) in the first six months of the year, from 8% of the previous year. Organic income – income from existing operations – only 4% fell.

The work of EBITDA was an apartment to 122 million euros ($ 133 million). With revenue reduction, EBITDA margin is in the first half of 20% in the first half of 2025. years. The margin improvement was the result of numerous factors, executive director Thomas Coesfeld told Bilbord. “It is a distribution, it is the acquisition of catalogs and first and most important, it is a focus of business, for now, for publication and recordings.”

The income from music streaming had a high-digit growth, which BMG placed in a couple with its larger competitors. It helped to digital share in total revenue of 72% of 69% earlier. While the growth of subscribers slowed to large markets, Suoesfeld is “optimistic” about transfering the ability to start the growth. “Prices are in the Western world and it is the expansion of use, penetration and our (Royalty pool is increasing in all fast growing markets.”

The decline in revenues was also the result of greater emphasis on the digital level. Back 2023 years, not long after Suoesfeld took the role of the directorBMG sold their roles In two entertainment companies live, secret and karo, focus on its basic companies. The physical product, which has lower margins from digital formats, also played a smaller role in the first half of the year. The decline in physical sales was “very intentionally,” he said that it was the BMG’s physical distributor, a universal music group, helped for predicting and adjusting the order size to reduce available. As a result, he said, the physical sales refused, but the costs improved.

BMG, which has grown through numerous acquisitions since its establishment in 2008. years, still sees catalog acquisitions as “in the middle” of its strategy for gaining repertoire. BMG bought 17 catalogs in the first half of the year, more than 10 in the previous year. Until the acquisition details have been revealed, the company claimed that the contracts were “consistently delivered strong yields and encouraging future growth”.

Suoesfeld also pointed to success The Climb line in the USA led by John Lobo. In the first half of the year, the BMG’s recorded music division had an incoming success of Jelly Roll, Spiritbox, Yung Kai, Viz Khalifa and Billi Idol, among others. The signatures and extensions in the period include crocs, Olli Murs, Evanescence, Mark Keller, I-DLE, Joyce Vrice, Fredrik and Jessi. A deal with pop Hitmakers OneRepublic was announced in July.

“The first song (” beautiful colors “) issued by OneRepublic, which is BMG in a different position compared to last year,” Coesfeld said. “It’s in pop, it’s in the United States, and yet, at the same time, we continue to play great songs in the US (genre) in the USA from Nashville.”