UK's Kingstreet Media buys Deston Music, India's Deep Emotions buys 20,000 famous Indian copyrights, Australia's Origin buys all the local copyrights of the Warner Chappell's Australian catalogue; all of them are joining MMG's client's list along with Christophe's publisher Francis Dreyfus Music and Joe Dassin's 18 Music.

Kingstreet Media
Kingstreet Media, a privately held British company group, have purchased Deston Songs which contains hits like Cher's We All Sleep Alone, Bon Jovi's Livin' and Ricky Martin's Livin' la Vida Loca.

King Street Media has paid an estimate of $20 million for Deston which was founded by Desmond Child a writer and producer whose works have helped to sell more then 200 million records.

King Street Media's management is comprised of industry leaders such as Michael Bungey, Andrew Wilkinson , Tim Hollier, Steve McMellon, Rupert Perry, Paul Russell, Andy Spacey, Andy Edwards, Antony Berkin, Oliver Fetiveau and Christine Linder.
http://www.kingstreetmedia.com/index.html

Deep Emotions
Deep Emotions Publishing was created in November 1995 by Achille Forler, a French man who fell in love with India and its music. Deep Emotions Publishing is based in Delhi and owns some of the biggest hits in India and Bollywood movie music.
http://www.deepemotions.com

Origin
ORiGiN Music Group is an Australian independent music company owned and managed by Philip Walker and Philip Mortlock. The rich diversity and creativity of ORiGiN Music writers and composers has proven to be advantageous particularly in the realm of sync licensing, with many compositions being licensed into film and TV productions including Sex In The City, Malcolm In The Middle, In The Cut, Lantana, Risk, Erskineville Kings, Big Brother, Last Man Standing and Dawson's Creek. In advertising we have seen ORiGiN works used in various commercials.
In July 1st 2004 the Australian owned independent music company took over the entire rights to Warner Chappell's Australian catalogue of writers and works including composers Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Paul Grabowsky, Jenny Morris, Tina Arena, Human Nature, Paul Wiltshire, Frank Strangio, Ceszary Skubiszewski, Gina Jeffreys, Richard Clapton and the members of Zinc.
http://www.originmusic.com.au

Francis Dreyfus Music
Francis Dreyfus Music is a catalogue originally specialized in jazz, which expanded to blues, electronic, world music, hip hop, rock and pop music.

In 1963 Francis Dreyfus started his publishing company with copyrights of songs written by his college mate, Eddy Vartan, for artists Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan. The catalog grew with songs performed by Petula Clark (You're the One), other French pop singers and Pink Floyd. Followed by the acquisition of the most prestigious pop-rock music catalogs of the 70's Island Music and Chrysalis Music.

In 1972, Francis Dreyfus launched a record label Disques Motors. His first signature was a talented pop-rock singer-composer, Christophe, who had a huge hit in Europe in 1964 with the song Aline. The writing collaboration between Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre resulted in several hit singles of the artist (starting in 1976 with Oxygene, his first multi-million international hit album).

Francis Dreyfus developed its publishing catalog by representing a number of US composers catalogs (Al Jarreau, Marcus Miller and David Sanborn, Miles Davis/Jazzhorn between 1981 and 1984 (before it was sold to Sony ATV), Benny Golson, Ornette Coleman, Elvis Presley Music since 1989, Charles Mingus, Alice Cooper, US TV series like Dallas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since 1990 and many more).

Francis Dreyfus launched his Dreyfus Jazz label in June 1991 with the first CD releases of acquired masters by Bud Powell, Chet Baker, Benny Golson, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, etc.

A year later, Dreyfus Jazz signed long-term artist contracts with the top French jazz composers-musicians, among which the pianist Michel Petrucciani, violinist Didier Lockwood, accordion/bandoneonist are Richard Galliano, guitarists Bireli Lagrene and Philip Catherine, saxophonists Steve Grossman and Rosario Giuliani, the Mingus Big Band, Roy Haynes, Marcus Miller and recently Jean-Michel Pilc.
http://www.disquesdreyfus.com

Music 18
Music 18 has a catalogue mostly composed by the songs of Joe Dassin.
Joseph Dassin was born in New York on November 5 1938. His career started with the first hit "Bip Bip", released in 1966, which turned him into an overnight star. His deep voice, charisma and natural elegance caused a real stir on the French music scene.
Two years later, he reached the top of the charts with "Les Dalton". The hits followed - "Les Champs-Elysees", "L'Ete Indien", "A Toi", and many others. He performed at the Olympia, the most famous of all Paris's concert halls - a sign of ultimate success in itself.
Within 16 years of his career Joe Dassin recorded more than 250 titles and sold about 50 Million discs. Most of his songs were written by the very talented Claude Lemesle and Pierre Delanoe.
Joe Dassin died on August 20, 1980 of a heart attack.
He definitely remains one of the most popular figures in the history of French music. His songs, which sold millions worldwide during his lifetime, are still frequently played on French radio today more than 20 years after his death. In 1994 a group of young French popular artists got together to pay tribute to the inimitable Franco-American star, recording cover versions of his most famous songs on the compilation album "L'equipe a Jojo".