BMG buys up rights to thousands of hit songs

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According to the BBC, BMG Rights Management has signed a deal to acquire selected music publishing catalogues from Virgin Music Publishing, Famous UK Music Publishing and selected titles from Sony/ATV and EMI Music Publishing.

The story can be found here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20817206 

And according to Billboard, BMG  has acquired the Mute back catalog owned by EMI, which includes records released by artists like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Moby, Goldfrapp and Nick Cave.

The story can be found here: http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/bmg-acquires-mute-records-catalog-1008059912.story#iqfy0UrXbXmGXqiK.99