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Associate Member Spotlight – MVD Entertainment Group

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MVD has been serving artists and audiences since 1986, exclusively representing audio and video content for record labels, artists, film studios, and filmmakers. Family-owned and operated, 100% debt-free, and beholden to no outside investors, MVD is committed long-term to both physical and digital distribution. Operating its own 30,000 square-foot warehouse in Pottstown, PA, MVD handles all of its own picking, packing, shiping and billing. And MVD is welcoming strong labels that are not satisfied with their current distribution.

MVD boasts a wide array of label partners including Time Life, Bear Family, Metropolis, Made In Germany, Park The Van, S’More, Stony Plain, Cherry Red, Inakustik, and many more. MVD also has very strong artist direct relations with the likes of Nils Lofgren, Public Enemy, The Meat Puppets, The Residents, The Plasmatics, The Dwarves, and Iggy Pop, to name a few.

MVD’s customer base is diverse, as a result of being in both the music and video business. The usual suspects (including Amazon, AEC, Ingram, Barnes & Noble, TWEC/FYE stores, Best Buy, Walmart) are covered, and MVD also has strong relationships with the catalog/mail order companies that have become a crucial part of the physical marketplace. MVD is an official sponsor of Record Store Day, providing excellent exclusive content to the organization since their first year. And on the digital side, MVD stays in-step with the best practices, maintaining a huge catalog of audio and visual digital rights and nurturing direct relationships with the major digital and VOD platforms, including Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, Pandora and many more.

In 2017 MVD launched their direct distribution service in Canada, selling directly to the top chains, wholesalers, independents, and specialists in Canada including outlets like Sunrise Records, London Drugs, Amazon.ca, Archambault/Renaud Bray, Sam The Record Man, Compact Music, Isotope, McNally Robinson and several others. Additionally, MVD has extensive distribution throughout Europe, with a choice of key distributors in each key territory to fit each label’s specialization.

With over 40 full time employees and a mortgage on the distribution center, MVD is deeply committed to the physical distribution business. The team is highly responsive, the systems are very transparent, and MVD has built a spotless reputation worldwide. Don’t be fooled by the cynics – the future for both physical and digital is bright, and MVD has been showing our partners the path to success for over 30 years.

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A2IM is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization headquartered in New York City that exists to support and strengthen the independent recorded music sector. Membership currently includes a broad coalition of more than 700 Independently-owned American music labels. A2IM represents these independently owned small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) interests in the marketplace, in the media, on Capitol Hill, and as part of the global music community. In doing so, it supports a key segment of America’s creative class that represents America’s diverse musical cultural heritage. Billboard Magazine identified the Independent music label sector as 37.32 percent of the music industry’s U.S. recorded music sales market in 2016 based on copyright ownership, making Independent labels collectively the largest music industry sector.

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