tyrannical bastard 4004 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Well, since this involves two companies that are heavily involved with local stations (and even being a source of news music here and there), This is a blockbuster move on the production music end.... https://www.firstcom.com/en-us/campaigns/the-new-universal-production-music I don't recall if the combined company has any news music holdings like WarnerChappell absorbing Gari & 615, but even Universal has absorbed major libraries like Network and Killer Tracks over the years. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpb 36 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 There is really a trend towards consolidation in the production music and news music industry. I wonder if there is a good explanation for why now. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 377 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 As a promo producer this really excites me LOL Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noggi 604 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 1 hour ago, qunewsguy said: As a promo producer this really excites me LOL I’ll be happy if someone goes through and cleans up these libraries. I don’t know about you but 90% of the tracks are usually just awful. Firstcom was impossible to search and find what I was looking for. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 377 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 1 hour ago, noggi said: I’ll be happy if someone goes through and cleans up these libraries. I don’t know about you but 90% of the tracks are usually just awful. Firstcom was impossible to search and find what I was looking for. It took me a while to figure out which labels are worth checking and which are worth skipping altogether. They've gotten better over the last couple years overall! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 4004 Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 3 hours ago, qunewsguy said: It took me a while to figure out which labels are worth checking and which are worth skipping altogether. They've gotten better over the last couple years overall! I've been using Firstcom for almost 15 years. It's gotten better over the period of time (especially as the agreements have become broader). I wonder if current customers will keep access to their respective libraries and newer customers will have access to everything. There are parts of Network and Killer Tracks I'd love to finally be able to use! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 511 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Universal already owned Firstcom (and had since around 2007 or so; https://www.firstcom.com/en-us/our-story), so they're just doing what they should have done years ago: combining the former Killer Tracks library and the Firstcom library under one umbrella. In other words, not too much to see here. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 377 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Well from a FirstCom user perspective, the only thing that has changed is that you now log in through UPM. No access to new labels or albums post-merger. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noggi 604 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 I guess this is where I’m confused… should I now be seeing Killer Tracks stuff when I search? They don’t show up as one of the labels on the Universal site. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 377 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 10 minutes ago, noggi said: I guess this is where I’m confused… should I now be seeing Killer Tracks stuff when I search? They don’t show up as one of the labels on the Universal site. Nope. If you search when you're not logged in you'll see everything. If you search or browse once you log in you'll only see what you had under the FirstCom site. My previous FirstCom license worked the same way. We only had access to certain labels. You could see everything without being logged in but as soon as you signed in you could only see what you could actually access. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noggi 604 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Oof. Makes sense I guess.. would love to get my hands on the Killer Tracks library, but I won an Emmy with help from a track from Universal so I can’t complain too much. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18377-firstcom-merging-with-universal-production-music/#findComment-262770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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