BMG promotes Marian Wolf to lead publishing in North America

28 February 2024 - Press release

 

BMG has announced it has promoted longtime publishing executive Marian Wolf to lead its Publishing teams in North America. Now serving as Senior Vice President, Music Publishing, North America, Wolf will head BMG’s single largest business unit from Los Angeles, including publishing A&R in New York, Nashville, and Canada, reporting to Thomas Scherer, recently appointed President, Global Catalog Recordings and Music Publishing, North America.

Wolf joined BMG in 2011 in Berlin before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014. During his tenure at BMG, he has held multiple elevating roles and responsibilities within BMG’s creative teams worldwide. Most recently, he was named Vice President, Global Writer Services & China in 2019, before being upped to Senior Vice President, Publishing & Chief of Staff in 2022. 

Wolf has been influential in the signings and renewals of key BMG publishing clients including George Harrison, Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull, Riot Games, Jessie J, and Dave Gibson, among others. Instrumental in generating new and significant revenue streams for BMG songwriters and publishing clients, Wolf developed an industry leading global digital service for publishing clients. This includes promoting publishing catalogs and frontline clients across platforms including Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Instagram, and others.

In 2016, Wolf developed the BMG SoundLab, BMG’s signature collaborative songwriting camp, which has gone on to generate Number One charting songs in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Korea, and other markets. BMG SoundLabs have collaborated with partners including American Idol, She Is The Music, major US labels and charitable organizations including a collaboration between the United Nations and Holocaust survivor Ben Lesser.

In addition, Wolf has been responsible for leading synergistic opportunities between BMG and parent company Bertelsmann’s platforms including collaborations with European broadcast and content leader RTL, while managing a diverse US songwriter roster that includes international signings, as well as the acquisition of notable publishing catalogs.

Scherer said, “With Marian’s expertise and success in the US and globally, he is the ideal leader for our North American music publishing business. We are confident he will continue to grow and transform the opportunities and digital services for our music publishing catalog clients, as well as frontline songwriter signings.“

Wolf said, “I am excited to lead our North American publishing teams into this next chapter. Publishing continues to be a corner stone of BMG’s business and I am thrilled to continuously innovate the way we serve our songwriters and publishing clients as creative partners.”