Abril Music

Abril Music was a Brazilian record company. The company acted for a short time but it had artists awarded by the ABPD, with disks of gold, platinum, multiples of platinum and diamond. Abril Music is one of the first cases in Brazil of a major record company succumbing to piracy. Created as a musical arm of the Abril group, she was known for her magazines and for being a former parent of MTV Brasil. In 2003 he retired strategically of this market having in his "cast" artists like: Black Alien, Falamansa, CPM 22, Gal Costa, Rita Lee, Titãs, Capital Inicial and Bruno & Marrone. At the end of its activities, Abril had a cast of 38 artists and more than 800 titles, divided between CDs and DVDs, with the seventh position in the national market, holding in its hands 4.7% of the market, according to the ABPD. The end of the label, according to the vice president superintendent of the Young Business Unit, Giancarlo Civita, was due to the high competitiveness of the majors and mainly because of piracy. His catalog and contracts were eventually sold in the market for BMG Brasil, and reissued under a newly established brazilian Ariola imprint, and its publishing company, AbrilMusicPub, was folded into BMG Music Publishing, but the label was retained by Grupo Abril for possible future use. The record company was responsible for re-releasing music DVDs originally released by Top Tape, both in the period it still existed (2000-2002) until the end of activities in 2002. Until then, almost all the music catalog deteriorated by this company was released before Abril Music closed the doors in 2003. The label was kept by Top Tape and years later it was used by partner companies (like Universal Music Brasil). In the mid-2000s, Ecran Distribuidora de Filmes started to relaunch Top Tape's DVD projects. Abril Music's master recordings and contracts now belong to Sony Music Brasil. Meanwhile, AbrilMusicPub's publishing catalog now belong to Universal Music Publishing Group since Universal acquired BMG's publishing arm.