The Orchard (company)
American music and entertainment company
Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., doing business as The Orchard, is a full-service global music distribution and artist services company headquartered in New York City. The world's largest independent music distributor, it specializes in digital and physical distribution and artist/label services. In addition to distribution, it offers clients marketing and advertising, publishing administration, rights management and royalty accounting, video monetization, data analytics, sync licensing, e-commerce, and other services. It is the U.S. market leader among distribution companies, with an 8.9% market share, and is a division of Sony Music Entertainment, which acquired The Orchard in a series of transactions between 2012 and 2015.
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