Merlin - Digital Music Licensing for Independent Music Companies

Ensuring the world’s leading independents have access to the deals, tools, and opportunities to succeed in the digital marketplace.
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Our Values

Enable Independence

  • Our top priority is helping our members stay independent while competing with the largest music companies in our industry.

Celebrate our Achievements and Our Members’ Achievements

  • We celebrate our members’ teams, their high quality music, and accomplishments.
  • Making space to celebrate our achievements amidst our daily grind keeps us centered and enables us to accomplish more.

Build a Culture of
Shared Ownership

  • We all contribute to the success of Merlin and in driving value to our members.

Member-Led.

We ensure that the world’s leading independents have access to the Merlin deals required to compete at the highest levels.

Music-Focused.

Our members benefit from our superior commercial terms in our deals while working directly with over 40 of the most commercially significant and strategically important digital services.

Global Impact

From regional sensations to chart-topping international superstars, our members work with many of the most iconic names in music and represent a rich collection of high quality music catalogs from all around the world.

Fireboy DML

Adele

Mitski

Stella Jang

Nirvana

Luan Pereira

15
%
of the global recorded
music market
500
+
members around
the world
30,000
+
record labels
represented

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