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Company type | Joint venture |
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Industry | Music entertainment |
Founded | 1983 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | North America |
Services | Production music |
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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. APM Music's catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks [1] [2] and its libraries include KPM Music, Bruton, Sonoton, Cezame, Hard and Kosinus, among others. [3] Music tracks from APM Music are used in TV shows, including SpongeBob SquarePants , The Ren & Stimpy Show , Rocko's Modern Life , NCIS , Chicago Fire , The Bear , Ted Lasso , A Christmas Story , Top Gear , The Simpsons , Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , What We Do In The Shadows , Yellowjackets , All American , Loki , Poker Face , Only Murders in the Building , Reservation Dogs , Chopped , Family Guy , and Saturday Night Live ; films, including Oppenheimer , Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , Once Upon A Time in Hollywood , No Time to Die , Nope , Boyhood , Minions , and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ; [4] and video games, including Skylanders: Imaginators , Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare , and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands.[ citation needed ] They were also used in various Motorola phones as ringtones. NFL Films has a joint venture between the NFL and APM Music where music is composed for NFL-related media.[ citation needed ] The APM catalog includes recordings dating back to 1900, music representing 192 countries, and well-known tracks like "Heavy Action" (the theme for Monday Night Football), "The Big One" (the theme for The People's Court), and "Sweet Victory" (from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Band Geeks").
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 consistently partner for creative collaboration. [2]
Some notable composers who have worked with APM Music include: [5]
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated adventure comedy film based on the television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It was co-written, co-produced, and directed by series creator Stephen Hillenburg and features the series' regular voice cast consisting of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, and Mary Jo Catlett. Guest stars Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeffrey Tambor voice new characters, and David Hasselhoff appears in live-action as himself. In the film, Plankton enacts a plan to discredit his business nemesis Mr. Krabs, steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over the world by stealing King Neptune's crown and framing Mr. Krabs for the crime. SpongeBob and Patrick team up to retrieve the crown from Shell City to save Mr. Krabs from Neptune's wrath and their world from Plankton's rule.
John Valmore Pearson was a British composer, orchestra leader and pianist. He led the Top of the Pops orchestra for sixteen years, wrote a catalogue of library music, and had many of his pieces used as the theme music to television series.
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