The recently acquisitive Utopia Music continues to be pretty acquisitive, this time pushing itself into the world of music distribution – and physical distribution in particular – with the acquisition of the UK’s Proper Music Group.
Although start-up Utopia initially talked primarily about seeking to address the data issues that negatively impact on how artists and especially songwriters get paid when their music is played, through a series of acquisitions the company seems set to become a more wide-ranging service provider to the music industry, covering financing, meta-data, marketing insights and distribution as well as rights and royalties data.