Murlyn Music Group

Murlyn Music Group
Origin	Sweden
Genres	Pop
Years active	1998 – present
Website	www.murlyn.se
Members
Bagge & Peer -- (Anders Bagge and Peer Åström) Bloodshy & Avant -- (Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg) Korpi & Blackcell -- (Henrik Korpi and Mathias Johansson) Arnthor Birgisson David Eriksen Fredrik "Fredro" Ödesjö

Murlyn Music Group AB or just Murlyn Music (MMG) is Stockholm-based international music production company founded in 1998^[1] by Anders Bagge and Christian Wåhlberg. Wåhlberg takes care of administration and Bagge of artstic production. The company includes a great number of successful songwriters, producers and musicians and has produced and written material for tens of international artists.

The company has many studios in various locations (known as Murlyn Studios), a publishing division Murlyn Songs (initially headed by Pelle Lidell).

History

Murlyn Music was founded in 1998 by Anders Bagge and Christian Wåhlberg. Wåhlberg told HitQuarters that they had been inspired by Denniz PoP's Cheiron, saying: "I wanted to do a similar thing but different."^[2] At that point Sweden had yet to be recognised internationally as being at the forefront of pop production and so Wåhlberg and Bagge had to first establish themselves with unknown international acts before they were able to attract the attentions of major pop stars. Murlyn's big breakthrough came with the US boy band 98 Degrees.

In 2001 Murlyn signed a marketing deal with Universal Music Group for distributing the catalogue of songs materials produced by Murlyn Music worldwide. Colin Barlow, Jimmy Iovine and Lucian Grainge proposed building a company around Murlyn's songwriting where they would develop acts together.^[2] Unfortunately this relationship with Interscope and Universal came at a time when the era's pop trend was fading and singer-songwriter acts were starting to dominate. Murlyn wanted to focus more on singer-songwriters, but the level of time and development required was something that the major label was reluctant to support. Wåhlberg described the singer-songwriter career plan: "You write and produce your first album and find your fan base, and then you hit the big numbers on the second one. But from the point of view of the record label, they want a return faster than a second album."^[2]

In 2007 Bagge and Wåhlberg sold the publishing catalogue to Crosstown Songs in America.

Songwriters / Producers

Murlyn Music Group has the following producers

• Bagge & Peer
  • Anders "Bag" Bagge
  • Peer Åström
• Bloodshy & Avant
  • Christian "Bloodshy" Karlsson
  • Pontus "Avant" Winnberg
• Korpi & Blackcell
  • Henrik Korpi
  • Mathias Johansson
• Arnthor Birgisson
• David Eriksen
• Fredrik "Fredro" Ödesjö.^[3]

Other producers under MMG include: Mats Berntoft, DeadMono, Jock-E, Hitvision, Aleena, Nina Woodford, Yoga, Jay Jay and Infinite Mass.

Selective discography

• 98 Degrees
  • "Because of You"
  • "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
  • "You Are My Everything"
• Celine Dion
  • "Have You Ever Been In Love"
• Janet Jackson
  • "Don't Stop"
• Jennifer Lopez
  • "Play"
• Madonna
  • "Get Together"
  • "Like It Or Not"
  • "How High"
• Jessica Simpson
  • "Irresistible"
• Britney Spears
  • "Toxic"
• Sugababes
  • "Supernatural"
  • Switch"

Others

• Kelis featuring Spragga Benz - "Fire"
• Christina Milian - "When You Look At Me" and "AM to PM"
• Rob Thomas - "This Is How A Heart Breaks"
• Rachel Stevens - "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex"
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Get Over You"

Murlyn Music hits include singles and albums produced for Ricky Martin and Ronan Keating

References

1. ^ BusinessWeek: Murlyn Music Group AB
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Interview with Christian Wåhlberg". HitQuarters. 2 May 2011. http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_Wahlberg.html. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
3. ^ Sound on Sound article: Northern Lights

External links

• Murlyn Music Official website

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