BMG Publishing Summons The Wolf

• BMG has promoted Marian Wolf to Senior Vice President, Music Publishing, North America. Wolf will now 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 & Music Publishing, North America.

Wolf joined BMG in 2011 in Berlin before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014. He was named Vice President, Global Writer Services & China in 2019, and in 2022 was upped to SVP, Publishing & Chief of Staff.

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. Wolf also developed an industry-leading global digital service for publishing clients, which includes promoting publishing catalogs and frontline clients across Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms. In 2016, Wolf developed the BMG SoundLab, BMG’s signature collaborative songwriting camp, which has generated No. 1 charting songs in the U.S., the UK, Germany, Japan, Korea, and other markets.

Scherer said, “With Marian’s expertise and success in the U.S. 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 remarked, “I’m 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’m thrilled to continuously innovate the way we serve our songwriters and publishing clients as creative partners.”