Proper Music Distribution

Proper Music Distribution
Founder	Malcolm Mills
Genre	All genres
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Official website	ProperMusicGroup.com

Proper Music Distribution is the largest independent music distributor in the UK, with annual sales of over £25million. It is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Proper Music Group Limited. In recent years it has been a frequent winner of coveted Music Week Awards. "Music Week – Best Distribution Team"[1] and Diversity in the Workplace.[2] In 2017, the company relocated to a new, purpose-built 100,000sq. ft. distribution centre in Dartford, Kent.[3]

In January 2022, it was announced the Switzerland-headquartered fintech company Utopia Music had acquired Proper Music Distribution's parent company, Proper Music Group.[4] Later in 2022, Utopia Music acquired physical entertainment distributor Cinram Novum,[5] which has now become part of Proper Music Distribution, powered by Utopia.[6]

Distributed artists

A selection from thousands of distributed artists include:

• Aimee Mann
• Amy LaVere
• Beth Neilsen Chapman
• Bird in the Belly
• Cara Dillon
• Daughter
• Dr John
• Eliza Carthy
• Joan Baez
• Martin Carthy
• Nick Cave
• Nick Lowe
• Oysterband
• Paul Carrack
• Pet Shop Boys
• Richard Thompson
• Travis

Distributed record labels

Examples of their distributed labels include:

• Alligator Records
• Big Chill
• Crammed Discs
• ECM Records
• Far Out Recordings
• Fellside Records
• Fledg'ling
• The Last Music Company
• MiG-music
• Naim Records
• Navigator Records
• Ploughboy Records
• Proper Records
• Real World Records
• Ruf Records
• Sain
• Shanachie Records
• Soundway Records
• Stoney Plain Records
• Topic Records
• Whirlwind Records

References

1. "Welcome to the Music Week Awards 2017". MusicWeekAwards.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
2. "Music Week Women In Music 2017 winners revealed". Music Week. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
3. "UK-based Proper Music gets a new warehouse – and a new look". Music Business Worldwide. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
4. "Utopia acquires the UK's Proper Music Group, launches Distribution Services unit". Music Business Worldwide. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
5. "Utopia safeguards future of market-leading physical music distributor Cinram Novum". Music Week. 13 September 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
6. "Cinram Novum is now part of Proper, powered by Utopia". Proper Music Group. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

External links

• Proper Music Group official website