Payday Music Publishing
American music publisher
Payday Music Publishing, previously Ultra International Music Publishing (UIMP), is an American independent music publisher founded in 2004 by Patrick Moxey. It publishes the catalogs of hundreds of songwriters and producers, including Wheezy, Zaytoven, and Marshall Jefferson. Its copyright catalog includes songs by artists such as Drake, Rihanna, David Guetta, and Madonna.
In April 2025, following a lawsuit from Sony Music over the name of Ultra Records, which Sony had acquired from Moxey, Ultra International Music Publishing announced that it would rebrand as Payday Music Publishing.
History
Prior to founding the company, Patrick Moxey had managed Gang Starr and other hip-hop artists through Empire Artist Management. In 1992, Moxey founded Payday Records, which had signed artists such as Jay-Z, Mos Def's group UTD, and Jeru the Damaja and others. In 1996, Moxey founded the Grammy Award-winning record label Ultra Records, which he sold to Sony Music Entertainment in 2021.
Moxey founded Ultra International Music Publishing in 2004,which was rebranded to Payday Music Publishing in 2025, due to a lawsuit from Sony Music.
UIMP signed a deal with record producer and songwriter Wheezy for the rights to publish his catalog in 2018. It went on to sign a deal extension with Wheezy in 2021.
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