A global music company built for independents

Built for every catalog, not around us.

( Distribution · Publishing · Label Services — one roof )

Next Music Group exists because the gap between "doing it all yourself" and "signing it all away" was too wide for too long. We're the company in the middle: global infrastructure and a real team, on deals where ownership never changes hands.

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50+Global partners
Our story

We started Next because the music industry made independence feel like a penalty. It shouldn't.

Next Music Group grew out of years spent inside the machinery of digital music — distribution pipelines, YouTube rights management, royalty systems and society registrations. We watched independent artists and labels lose money to systems they couldn't see and deals they couldn't read. So we built the company we wished existed: every service under one roof, every statement itemized, every right staying exactly where it started.

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01 · What we believe

Three principles.
Every deal, every day.

These aren't wall posters — they're the tests every contract, feature and decision has to pass before it ships.

Ownership Is Sacred

Your masters, your compositions, your data, your fans. We're infrastructure and a team — never a landlord. Every deal we offer keeps 100% ownership with the people who made the work.

100% yours · Always

Transparency Is the Product

Itemized statements, splits agreed upfront, no hidden deductions and no fine print that changes the deal. If you can't explain a music contract in one sitting, it's a bad contract.

Read it in one sitting

Global Means Global

Not just the Western majors — the regional platforms, societies and markets where the next wave of listening actually lives. Your catalog works everywhere, or the word "worldwide" means nothing.

Every market counts
02 · What we do

One roof.
Seven front doors.

Each service stands on its own — together they cover a music career end to end.

Music Distribution

One upload to 150+ platforms worldwide — real-time analytics, automated splits, monthly payouts.

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Music Publishing

Registration and royalty collection across 80+ societies — the composition income most writers never see.

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Label Services

A&R, playlist pitching, paid ads, PR and creative — label firepower without the label trade.

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Artist Management — you make the music, we run the business

Career strategy, deals and day-to-day operations, handled so your energy goes where it belongs.

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Brand Partnerships

Sponsorships, endorsements and campaigns matched on fit and negotiated on fair terms.

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YouTube Content ID — every video using your music pays you

Fingerprinting, claims and monetization across YouTube, on every use of your catalog.

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Meta UGC Distribution

Delivery to Meta Library and Rights Manager fingerprinting — every Reel and Story using your music, earning for you.

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03 · How we operate

Small enough to care.
Built enough to scale.

The operating habits that make the principles real.

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Humans answer

Questions go to people who know your account — not a ticket system that knows your number.

02

Data stays open

You see the same dashboards we do — streams, revenue, claims and campaign performance, in real time.

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Deals stay flexible

Scale up to label services, down to distribution-only, or out entirely — your catalog moves with you.

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Everything reconciles

Distribution, publishing, Content ID and partnerships — every income stream lands on one itemized statement.

Testimonials

The people we
work for.

A few words from artists, writers and managers across the roster.

Next never made me choose between staying independent and having a real team behind me. My masters are still mine — everything else just got easier.
Mara LuneRecording artist, Cobalt Hour Records
Royalty statements used to take weeks to make sense of. With Next, I can see exactly what's owed and where it's coming from, every month.
Desmond OkaforProducer & songwriter, Kingdom Static
Our sync placement came through their publishing team within a month of signing. That kind of speed usually only happens at the majors.
Priya NandanManager, Nova Isle

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Artists, labels, writers and catalogs — tell us what you're building and we'll show you how we'd help.

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