APM Music

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. APM Music's catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks and its libraries include KPM Music, Bruton, Sonoton, Cezame, Hard and Kosinus, among others. 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, 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; and video games, including Skylanders: Imaginators, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands. 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. 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").

History
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.

Notable composers
Some notable composers who have worked with APM Music include: • Adam Wakeman

• Alan Hawkshaw

• Alan Parker

• Alan Tew

• Alessandro Alessandroni

• Amon Tobin

• Barry de Vorzon

• Benson Taylor

• Bill Laswell

• Brian Bennett

• Buddy Baker

• Daniel Heath

• David Buckley

• David Lindup

• David Robidoux

• Ennio Morricone

• Federico De Caroli

• Frank Serafine

• George Fenton

• Georges Delerue

• Gerhard Narholz

• Gregor F. Narholz

• Guy Moon

• Hal David

• Harry Gregson-Williams

• Henning Schmitz

• Janko Nilovic

• Javier Navarrete

• Jean-Jacques Perrey

• Jeff Rona

• John Barry

• John Cacavas

• John Cameron

• Johnny Pearson

• Keith Mansfield

• Laurie Johnson

• Les Baxter

• Marco Beltrami

• Mars Lasar

• Maurice Jarre

• Michael Brook

• Mladen Franko

• Nick Glennie-Smith

• Norman Candler

• Peter Thomas

• Piero Piccioni

• Piero Umiliani

• Rachel Portman

• Rupert Gregson-Williams

• Sam Fonteyn

• Sam Spence

• Simon Green

• Steven Price

• Syd Dale

• Telepopmusik

• The Kronos Quartet

• Tim Love Lee